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You may have heard right<\/a>. \u00a0Bill Maher. Bill Maher has lashed out against Paul Ryan and Rand Paul for \u2013 get this \u2013 being\u00a0intellectually\u00a0stuck in their teen years. \u00a0Bill Maher. \u00a0This is not a joke. \u00a0It is not a SNL sketch. \u00a0It is real reporting. \u00a0It is an actually story that, with a straight face, reports Bill Maher\u2019s disdain for the intellectual inferiority of Paul Ryan and Rand Paul. I\u2019m not saying I agree with Paul or Ryan (that was\u00a0weird). \u00a0But for it to be Maher, one of the least informed and least educated voices in the pop culture debate, whose public persona suggests he never made it past\u00a0emotional\u00a0puberty, has to be a new high in\u00a0all time\u00a0lows. \u00a0That the story reports this with no sense of irony shows the level of uselessness that our agents of information have obtained. \u00a0Really. \u00a0Bill Maher. \u00a0That\u2019s like Justin Bieber railing against Beethoven or Mozart for being no talent hacks. \u00a0The good thing about Fred Phelps and Glenn Beck is that most informed conservatives and religious believers either denounce them (Phelps) or take them with more than a few grains of salt (Beck). \u00a0But on the secular left, Maher is considered quite the hero, and often is given respectable time on such venues as MSNBC or CNN. \u00a0The Rational and Reasoned side indeed.<\/p>\n

Editor\u2019s note: I know this came from The Blaze. \u00a0But in the internet age, outlets like The Blaze are\u00a0increasingly\u00a0seen as respectable journalism, and often are quoted as sources in various\u00a0traditional\u00a0news outlets.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"