Roger L. Simon whacks Bill Mahrer
Category: Faith... Society & Culture...
Posted Sunday, March 06, 2005 at 09:01 PM [GMT-6]

Our pastor referred this morning to one of the [many] patently stupid utterances from alleged political humorist (he'd never be convicted in court on that charge) Bill Maher, this one about "religion as a neurological disorder." Our pastor's careful and complete destruction of Maher's arguments is a thing of beauty (I'll try to get an audio clip so you can hear for yourself). (You can listen to the entire sermon here; the deconstruction of Maher's comments about religion starts at about the 3-minute mark.)

However, given the forum, he couldn't really give him the beating that someone like, oh...say, Roger L. Simon can administer. Mr. Simon not only skewers Maher, but gets two turkeys with one rock, throwing Ward Churchill in for free.

Whatever small modicum of humor he [Maher] may once have had has disappeared up his own navel while he was gazing at it, sort of like liposuction in reverse.

"Liposuction in reverse." Heh. Remind me to never be a foolish jerk within writing distance of a gifted novelist.

Tip o'the hat to Isaac Schrödinger, who administers a pretty fair thumping himself to Maher.

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Maher has become such a venomous self-parody that mocking him seems like kicking three-legged dog.

Posted by: bryan at March 7, 2005 06:59 PM

I never watch the guy. But sometimes, even three-legged dogs deserve a good kicking.

And I just noticed that I misspelled his name in the title of the post. Ho-hum.

Posted by: Eric at March 7, 2005 08:40 PM
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