Discuss “Bill Maher goes for the kill”

The Bush administration has given comics plenty of material to work with. Many go after simple things like President Bush’s struggle with the English language, but Bill Maher, host of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, goes straight for the jugular.

At a sold-out Heinz Hall show this past Thursday evening, Bill Maher brought his classic political satire to downtown Pittsburgh. The comic had many things to say about the Bush administration. An opening joke mocked President Bush’s pro-democracy rhetoric, and continuing his assault, Maher called it the “let’s-not-and-say-we-did administration” in its handling of the Iraq war and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. According to him, Bush’s policy for funding the Iraq war, Katrina,...