Maher says his writers love the Daily Kos, which actually explains quite a lot. Bill played the roll of Hillary apologist during most of the segments with the panel, but was able to pull off a fairly good show regardless. It was Maher’s interpretation of the Democratic debate that I found the most fault with. Bill talks so much about the Democrats “not having the balls” to stand up for what’s right, but continues to praise fascists like Hillary and dismiss liberals like Kucinich. It seems to me that Maher shouldn’t complain about the Democrats who don’t have balls if he’s not going to support the ones that actually do.

Markos himself is another hypocrite who toes the party line for corporate candidates, but bitches about what the results of such a partisan strategy brings. Alison Stewart was the overall light of reason on the panel, saying that Clinton is only the frontrunner because the media says she is, and that such fabricated reporting takes away from better candidates. The best part of the show for me was when Stewart and Martin Short actually made media history by defending Dennis Kucinich. You can even hear Markos release a bitchy little groan of disgust when Short says “I love Dennis Kucinich,” and gets applause from the audience. Much like the spin the mainstream media shovels out, Markos himself dismissed the sentiment of the audience by treating Kucinich as a loon without citing any policies that would support that claim.

Maher’s final “Crass Warfare” segment at the end of New Rules was particularly good, though its revolutionary sentiment was contradictory to most of what he and Markos were defending during most of the show.

h/t Tullycast

Allison Stewart’s money quote: “Of all the things that Dennis Kucinich has done, been written about, happened in his life, that’s the one thing you’re gonna ask him about?