Bill Maher Quotes
Rush Limbaugh, who has made a career preaching that anybody who does drugs has got to go right to jail - do not pass go, no questions asked, right to jail - gets caught doing thirty oxycontin a day. Thirty oxycontin?! Do you have any idea how high that is?! I don't, and I've been pretty high!
Maher, Bill. New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer. Rodale Books, 2005, p. 112.
This was a satiric attack on Republicans of 2012 who tended to see drug addiction as a moral failure but were very silent when Rush Limbaugh, the ultra-conservative radio talk show host turned out to be a drug addict. Limbaugh was one of the most influential Republicans of that era. The hypocrisy was that Limbaugh, along with many other conservatives, had been preaching for years, that drug addiction was not a medical condition, like other illnesses, but was a condition brought about by a moral failure of the addict.
William Maher is an American comedian, political commentator, and television host. He is known for the HBO political talk show Real Time with Bill Maher (2003–present) and the similar late-night show called Politically Incorrect (1993–2002), originally on Comedy Central and later on ABC.
