On his HBO show Friday, “Real Time” host Bill Maher offered his audience a theory about why President Obama is treated with less respect than others who have held his office, and said that his life would be threatened if he “had sex with a White House intern on Easter.”
According to Maher, a protocol covering how Americans should act in the president’s presence is not being observed with Obama. He maintained that despite his own disrespect toward former President George W. Bush, he would never have showed it in person.
“Now, the deal we have always had with presidents is that we smile and talk nice to them when they’re in front of us,” Maher said. “And then then we cut them down and say horrible things behind their backs. This has always worked for eighth grade girls and it’s always worked for the United States of America.”
“But there’s something about this president that makes conservatives think it’s OK to go ape-shit in his presence. They didn’t do this to Carter, an actual pacifist, or Clinton, who really did have a plan for universal health care, or LBJ, who actually made it easier for poor people to vote and eat — all of them clearly evil America-haters.”
Why is this president treated differently? Maher put it all on Obama’s race.
“What could it be that’s different about him?” he asked. “It’s either his race or it’s your brain chemistry or it’s something that happened when your dad spanked you and you liked it and you were looking at a box of Cream of Wheat. I don’t know. I’m not a therapist. Maybe it’s not race. I don’t know what’s in people’s hearts, except Newt Gingrich, I know what’s in his heart: lust and cheese fries. But this type of in-the-room, in-your-face, in-your-space disrespect is new.”
Maher compared Obama to Bill Clinton, saying that if Obama had been involved in a scandal like Clinton, he might not even be alive.
“Something like impeaching Clinton was far more serious,” Maher said. “But it was also at least in some ways more respectful. It was done with high pomp through official channels. It was all about the rule of law, and the chief justice wore a special robe he got from a musical or something. And somehow that is a lot more respectful than this — not that if Obama ever did anything like what Clinton did he would even be alive.”
The “Real Time” host, specifically referring to the infamous pose of Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer with her finger in Obama’s face, speculated on what might happen if Obama were caught having sex with a White House intern and doubted that Brewer was threatened as she said she was.
“Can you imagine what they would do if they found out Obama had sex with a White House intern on Easter? Talk about colored eggs. He would have been impeached two times, one for each testicle. This president has had to be the Caesar’s wife of Pennsylvania Ave., the Jackie Robinson of American politics — never reacting to the taunts from the stands. But after you do this to try to get his goat, what’s next? A wedgie? A purple nurple? Gov. Brewer said she did this because she felt threatened. Right, like Obama ran his finger down her blouse and said, ‘Yeah, you my white princess.’”
