July 09, 2011
By Glenn Davis, Mediaite
It's no secret that Bill Maher isn't a fan of Republican policies on...pretty much anything. Tonight, he took aim at the party's economic thinking, and to illustrate what he saw as the absurdity of it, drew a parallel many might find more than a bit absurd themselves: he compared it to the Casey Anthony trial. Here's how he tried to pull that one off:
"If you can look at a crime where everything points to one answer and not see it, you're a dumbass. And if you can look at the deficit and not see that the problem is that the rich stopped paying taxes, you're a Republican."
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