This week’s Mainstream Media Scream features Bill Maher, on his HBO show “Real Time with Bill Maher” on Friday night, ridiculing the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and mocking his death.
“Something spooky happened exactly two weeks ago. I was talking – right at this hour right on this show, and we were talking about the fact that the Supreme Court had just scuttled the EPA’s clean power plan, okay, and I said, ‘How can anything get done in America when you have to run it by Antonin Scalia first?’ Apparently, at that very hour, he died. He could have been watching this show thinking, ‘I like Bill Maher so much. Ahhh!'”
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Smiling, the liberal comedian fell backward in his chair as if he were Justice Scalia dying, inspiring laughter from the audience. After sitting up, he continued: “Okay, but, so, look, you’re not supposed to speak ill of the dead, so let me not name call. But let me fact call because I have listened for two weeks about he was a brilliant jurist and he was a great intellectual. Excuse me, Antonin Scalia was put on Earth to remind poor people that the law is not your friend.”
More: “You know where he was when he died, though?…an all-male [hunting club], yes, with some secret order of St. Hubertus where they wear green robes with big crosses on them, and then they murder birds that are released, not into the wild, like right in front of them. And he was actually too sick that day to do the hunting, but he was in the car because that’s great too, to just be around people murdering birds. So to, you know, the idea that this brilliant mind stumbling in the woods like Dumbledore…”
Media Research Center Vice President of Research Brent Baker explains the pick: “In the midst of journalistic condemnations of ‘juvenile’ behavior from Republicans at the latest presidential debate, along comes a liberal hero and big Obama donor to show how low politics can really go: marking the passing of a respected and influential jurist by using him as fodder for cheap insults and ridicule from a ‘comedian’ who can’t dream of matching Antonin Scalia’s intellect.”
Rating: Five out of five screams.
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected]
