The week started with a bang. To paraphrase T.S. Eliot, it ends with — well, not a whimper, but only a tired lament from Bill Maher about Larry David’s intellect. For a man who got called a Nazi stooge by his (former?) friend in the pages of the New York Times, it seems like he’s more energized by Pope Paul than the crank who shivved him in print.
Yes, that’s not a typo. In the full interview with Piers Morgan, Maher spends quite a while discussing Pope Francis’s death, the Catholic Church, and why his father left during Pope Paul VI’s era. Maher seems bored with David’s attack on him more than angry or energized, but he does slap back rather effectively. “The moment you play the Hitler card,” Maher tells Morgan, “you’ve lost the argument” (via Twitchy):
“It’s kind of insulting to six million dead Jews…”
Bill Maher responds to Larry David’s essay…
