Bill Maher waiting except the top of HBO’s Real Time Friday night to deal with the story that had dominated the news all day on November twenty second, 2013: the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. However instead of simply praising JFK’s legacy, Maher when compared and contrasted it with that of the precise’s identical hero: Ronald Reagan.

The host commenced by means of giving Republicans some credit for “no longer saying out loud what they’re actually thinking” about Kennedy: “That he wasn’t all that fab.” He defined that “don’t get a lump” in their throat for John F. Kennedy, they get one for Ronald Reagan. “He’s the Republican’s Kennedy.”

For instance, Maher pointed to Sarah Palin, who has spent numerous time praising Reagan, despite the fact that when he was first elected she was once “barely 16, most definitely pregnant, however nonetheless in 0.33 grade.”

From there, Maher commenced summing up the differences between Democrats and Republicans. “We’ve Kennedy. You have got Reagan. We have now marijuana. You could have Metamucil. We wish gays in the military. You need them in the airport restroom.” The rest of Maher’s ultimate New Rule of the night time used to be spent illustrating the distinction between Kennedy and Reagan to indicate the difference between folks that harken back to the Nineteen Sixties and those that yearn for the Eighties.

“Can we, on nowadays, at the least agree that Kennedy was once cooler?” Maher requested. Kennedy was Don Draper, whereas Reagan was Fowl Cogburn:

When Kennedy used to be president, “everyone seemed like Rob and Laura Petrie.” Wheras, when Reagan was once president…

“Kennedy’s time was the time of ‘Ask now not what your united states can do for you,’” Maher mentioned. “Reagan’s used to be the time of ‘Greed is good.’” While he admitted Kennedy was once “a ways from good,” he called him a “true wit and a intercourse laptop and he knew how to wear a pair of colours.” In contrast, “Reagan was once an amiable sq. in a pair of colorings who had intercourse with a lady he called ‘Mommy.’”

“Republicans can name Reagan ‘their Kennedy’ all they want,” Maher concluded. “Our Kennedy is Kennedy.”

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