Review: Season Finale of 'Real Time with Bill Maher'

Submitted by Pensito Review contributor Amilee Brul, Red State and Blue

Bill Maher’s Real Time aired Friday, May 13, the season’s finale, with Al Franken as one of the panel. Mr. Franken admitted that he is seriously considering a run for the Senate chair now occupied by Norm Coleman of Minnesota.

Coleman, formerly from the Bronx, formerly a Democrat and still (?) Jewish, was selected over Fritz Mondale to the Senate. The tragic deaths of Paul Wellstone, his wife, daughter, three staffers and two pilots during his 2002 re-election campaign against Coleman threw the election into turmoil, and Coleman came out a Senator.

Franken, who earns a living as a comedian and satirist, is liberal, smart and well-spoken. When he isn’t doing shtick, he is impressive as a thoughtful spokesman for the bleeding hearts. As a matter of fact, he is impressive when he is doing his shtick.

Mahr’s reaction to the possible Franken candidacy was that it opened up a new job possiblities for underemployed comedians. He seemed unsurprised by the announcement, but enthusiastic.

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Poetic Justice

Verbatim

— Don Moynihan

“Musk’s behavior is emblematic of tech’s most heinous figures, who now feel emboldened to enter the analog world with the same lack of care and arrogance with which they built their sloppy platforms.”

— Kara Swisher

“If they want to try to annihilate Ontario, I will do everything — including cut off their energy with a smile on my face. …They rely on our energy, they need to feel the pain. They want to come at us hard, we’re going to come back twice as hard.”

— “Speaking Monday at a mining convention in downtown Toronto, Ontario Premier Doug Ford doubled down on threats to cut electricity exports to U.S. border states if the tariffs go through,” the Toronto Sun reports.

“The White House has become an arm of the Kremlin. Every single day you hear from the National Security Advisor, from the President of the United States, from his entire national security team, Kremlin talking points.”

— Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT), on CNN.

“America’s abrupt turn from moral beacon and defender of the free world is unsurprising, given the fundamental immorality of the Trump administration. If you have the morality of a gangster, you will behave like a gangster.”

— Noah Smith

Numerati

31

+$1 trillion

“The U.S. debt and deficit problem worsened during President Donald Trump’s first month in office, as the budget shortfall for February passed the $1 trillion mark even though the fiscal year is not yet at the halfway point,” CNBC reports.

172,000

240,000

-2.8%