Video) Maher: Bush should have flown to where he was on 9/11

Bill Maher was at the top of his game on Wednesday evening's edition of Hardball with host Chris Matthews.  The host of the HBO show Real Time with Bill Maher pointed out formal contradictions, as they say in philosophy, about Bush's responses immediately following the 9/11 attacks.  For example, if it was so important for Bush to get away from the east coast on 9/11, flying to Louisiana and Nebraska, why was he sitting there for seven minutes reading My Pet Goat?

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MAHER: "He should have gone to the places where he went on 9/11.  He was in Florida.  Then he heard there was an attack on New York, so of course he flew to Shreveport, Louisiana.  And then he heard that there was another plane that went down in Pennsylvania, so naturally he went to Nebraska.  So I think to commemorate 9/11, he should have gone to Florida, Louisiana and Nebraska.  And of course, I also read that on the night of 9/11, he was in bed by 11:30.  Yes, on the day that changed everything, Chris, he still hit the hay before Nightline...You can't have it both ways.  The attack can't be such that you can waste seven minutes just sitting there, and also be so dire that you have to go under ground."

And then Bill Maher commented on Dick Cheney's appearance on Meet the Press last week:

MAHER: "And the Cheneys, and the Bushs and the Rumsfelds -- they don't even care when they get caught in lies.  Tim Russert presented a lot of tapes of Cheney lying about this.  And Cheney's response basically was, 'Well yes, those specific lies, okay you got me on those.  But my overall lies still pertain.  We still need the war.'"

We all know that Karl Rove's exploitation of our fears about terrorism will not work as well today as it did in the past.  But still, it might be enough to energize the conservative base, which since June has been angry with the Administration about their immigration policy.  So the question is whether labeling the Democrats as terrorist-friendly will be enough to get conservatives off their butts and out to the polls on election day?  It just might.
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