An interesting video clip is making the rounds, highlighting the hypocrisy of the media’s attacks on Senator Rand Paul for his comments regarding vaccines. Maher claimed in 2009 that he “does not believe” in vaccines, and was schooled on his own show by Senator Bill Frist, a heart surgeon.

Maher and Frist debated the swine flu vaccine, and Frist argued that the Real Time host was a little crazy on the topic. And although the media recently declared war on Rand Paul for his comments about vaccines, why do they not hold one of their liberal icons to the same standards? Think there’s any hypocrisy there? Of course there is.

From the Daily Kos:

Bill Maher often tries to make this anti-vaxer argument against the flu vaccine with disastrous results:

Mr. Maher recently told his Twitter followers that people who get flu shots are “idiots.” On his Friday HBO show “Real Time With Bill Maher,” he explained his opposition to the flu vaccine during an interview with Bill Frist, a heart surgeon who was a Republican senator from Tennessee.Mr. Maher questioned letting someone stick “a disease into your arm,” wrongly implying that the flu shot contains a live virus. The flu shot is a killed vaccine. (Only the nasal mist vaccine contains a weakened live virus.) He said he did not believe that healthy people were vulnerable to dying from the new H1N1 virus. This contradicts statements from the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that young, healthy people from ages 5 to 24 appear particularly vulnerable to this flu. About a third of the 76 children who have died of H1N1 since April have had no underlying health problems. Mr. Maher also discouraged pregnant women from getting vaccinated. Studies show pregnant women are among the most vulnerable to serious complications from H1N1.

Well, maybe the liberal alternative media will take him to task. But the mainstream media? Nary a word.