The Patriot Post® · Bill Maher Said What?

Bill Maher, by far the most liberal of the late night talk-show hosts, challenged Democratic National Committee Chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schutz to tell the truth.

Maher: “Let’s be honest here. It looks like [Obama} told a lie. I think he did. Two questions: Is a lie justified if it is for something good. And two, if he hadn’t told that lie, could ObamaCare have been passed. If he had come out and said, ‘Yeah, some of you are going to lose your plan and you’re gonna have to pay more,’ do you think that law that squeaked through by that much [indicates tiny margin] would have passed?” Schutz: “First, it was not a lie, so let me just knock that down.” Maher: “Let’s be honest, some people can’t [keep their plan]. And because of ObamaCare they are not able to keep it. To me that is a lie. Lie or no lie.” Schutz: “The supreme court upheld it and Obama was reelected on it. … And we’re still arguing over minutia.” Maher: “To a lot of Americans it’s not minutia, and I think they are insulted when you say that. They think it is something important when the president does not square up with them. What about owning up to the plan that ObamaCare is a Robin Hood plan. It takes from the rich to make better the poor. I think he should embrace that.”

(For the record, O'Care is redistributing wealth from mostly middle-class working people to subsidize insurance for those who have not made purchasing insurance a priority.)