Here We Go Again

Here we go again.

According to the Catholic League, here's what Bill Maher said about the Church yet again on his November 14 show...

“A Catholic priest in South Carolina has told his congregation: If you voted for Obama you can’t receive Communion. That’s right. The cracker won’t let you get the cracker. He said supporting Obama constitutes material cooperation with intrinsic evil. Then he proceeds to pass around the plate so everyone could chip in to payoff the child f------ lawsuits.””

This is from the same man who brought us the classic "Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death."

Bill Maher is simply not funny. That's why ABC dropped him in 2002. He so desperately wants to be David Letterman, Jay Leno, or Conan O'Brien and it's simply not in the blood that runs through his B-movie veins. So instead, he decides to take his act to HBO, where he doesn't have so many FCC rules to follow, and start spitting his venom at the Catholic Church. It's not politically correct to make jokes about Jews, lest you incur the wrath of Abe Foxman (another one of my "favorite" people, largely because he seems to do more harm than good in Judeo-Catholic relations), and I think he's afraid to make jokes about Moslems, Hindus, and other religions who have extremist groups within them who are known for violence.

Perhaps Maher is feeling the need to dumb his show down by writing the rough equivilant of toilet humor into his monologue. You know: Getting that "least common denominator" demographic. After all, if you keep attacking the Church and only one guy, Bill Donohue, responds, then it must be working, right?

So what's Maher's deal? Bad writers (himself included)? Is he on the take from anti-Catholic groups feeding him money to spew vitriol against the Church? Is he merely aware that without spewing said vitriol that as a comedian, he sucks?

Perhaps without the Catholic Church, Maher is reduced to "pull my finger" jokes. It would suit his writing capabilities.