Maher Clarifies Gibson's Jew Issues

In a comment on the last post, I said that Comdedy Central was perhaps the only reliable source for compelling, entertaining political content with a left or centrist or even logical slant. But I forgot about Bill Maher. The last I saw him was when he did a skit of a White House press conference on his show when Scott McLellan had just quit as press secretary. It was funny, but downright lackluster compared to Stephen Colbert's same treatment of the topic on that same week.

Colbert blew Maher away (begins in minute 16:00).

Granted, skits are Colbert's career-long territory and nobody can touch him. Maher's untouchable territory is when he's weaving accessible pop culture events into the broader political discussion using his own voice. He's not out there everyday, which is why his messages and his approach get lost in all the noise ... but his piece yesterday called The World IS Mel Gibson is a nice reminder that liberals and centrists can put out content that's easily as entertaining and compelling as what the conservative machine pumps out. Or, if these adjectives don't satisfy conservatives, I'll just label the content with a euphemism they can understand: provocative.

Maher is that if nothing else. And just so we're clear: Maher is definitely "with us" or "on our side" or whatever else you want to call the opposite of some this-or-that rubric from Karl Rove's memo pad.