I was on Real Time with Bill Maher Friday night. I was talking to someone at the party after the show, and they asked me how I thought it went. Okay, I said—and then I told them that I said something really, really stupid, half under my breath, and I was relieved that Bill and the rest of the panel didn’t hear it. But folks watching the show at home might have heard it… so… I want to apologize for… um… wishing all Republicans dead.
I don’t feel that way. My dad is a Republican. (Well, he says he’s an independent, but he hasn’t voted for a Democrat since JFK. My dad is a Republican.) I’m fond of Michael Bloomberg and William Weld and Lincoln Chafee, and I wish no harm—save the political variety—on those Republicans I loathe. Even the one Republican I really had it in for once upon a time—Ronald Reagan—managed to outlive my anger.
It was a stupid, rude, thoughtless remark. I regret it and I retract it and I apologize to anyone watching at home—particularly my father (!)—who may have heard me say it. I had a drink before the show—first and last time I’ve ever done that—but this wasn’t a case of, “In vino, veritas.”
This was a case of, “In vino, stupidtas.”
It’s easy and mindless to lump groups of peeps into the same pile and throw them off as ‘all the same’.
In vino, dumbass?
Democrats also vote on the same policies you lament.
At the very core of a liberal lives the tyrannical child.
Tyrannical children are more intelligent than religious adults.
Where is the apology for supporting Adams?
I once wished the entire cast of a Star Wars movie dead because it sucked.
I also wished Severis Snape dead, and then, well, you know…I think he was a republican, but it’s kind of hard to tell, those Slitherin’s are a little sneaky…
I’d like to apologize about that.