'I have fear always about the American public. They’re not very bright,' Maher said. Maher: Americans 'not very bright'

HBO’s Bill Maher joined Larry King on Hulu’s “ Larry King Now” to assess the 2012 election and, as might be expected, he had a blistering critique of, well, just about everyone.

Paul Ryan: “Has the moral core of the pimp from ‘Taxi Driver.’ This is a guy who will just say anything. … I thought Mitt Romney was a facile liar; this guy even lies about his marathon times. He’s just one of those people who when he’s speaking, he’s lying.”


GOP: “There are no moderates in the Republican Party, and [Jon Huntsman] is certainly not one of them and Mitt Romney is not one of them either. They believe in the fantasy world of trickle-down economics even though we proved that it doesn’t work twice before. … And it’s not going to work again.”

American public: “I have fear always about the American public. They’re not very bright.”

Obama: “On civil liberties, he’s been just as bad as [George W.] Bush, which is even scarier because imagine the worst of George Bush’s policies implemented by someone who’s smarter than a raccoon. … I always said he wasn’t going to be chocolate Jesus and he wasn’t.”

As you might expect from someone who contributed a sizable check to Obama’s reelection, Maher’s report card on the president isn’t all bad.

“I would defend him on this: When people say, ‘Well, he promised change and then look what happened, we didn’t get it.’ Bullsh*t. He promised change and he delivered change. First of all, he probably stopped a depression, the auto industry bialout, obviously getting bin Laden, getting out of Iraq, health care — something eight other presidents had tried and not been able to deliver. Credit card reform, Wall Street reform, student loans. There has been change, it’s just when people, they hear ‘change’ they expect their life to go from black and white to color.”

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