This week’s Mainstream Media Scream features liberal TV talker Bill Maher using the Brexit vote to call for a rewrite of the U.S. Constitution.
On his HBO show, Real Time, on Friday night he compared the lack of gun control votes in Congress to how the British government reacted to the Brexit vote.
“I saw David Cameron today. You know, I’m up at 2:00 in the morning when this all happens. So I watched his whole speech and it’s like ‘I lost the vote, I graciously leave office.’ It’s like their system works so beautifully. We can’t even get a vote on something that 90 percent of Americans agree on and can’t get a vote. Our system sucks. It really does. The Constitution needs a page one re-write.”
Media Research Center Vice President of Research Brent Baker explains the pick: “What a cry-baby. A publicity stunt by a bunch of liberals doesn’t lead to a vote those gun control advocates would have lost and Maher’s reaction is to say the American political system ‘sucks’ and the Constitution should be re-written because our political leaders aren’t as gracious as the Prime Minister of the country we broke from 240 years ago? Not the most patriotic attitude ten days before Independence Day.”
Rating: Four out of five screams.
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected]
