On last Friday's show Bill Maher did this bit during his new rule segment asking that the boy that fathered Sarah Palin's daughter be freed. It was hysterical, so I've posted it below.
Also, I hope you have the release of
Religulous penciled into your calendars. It's Bill Maher's report on the current state of religion in the world. Maher enlisted
Borat director Larry Charles to help with his endeavor. It opens in New York on October 1 and on October 3 in other parts of the country.
And now for New Rule:
"If we can't, after all is said and done, make this election go the right way, at least we can save one man. I'm talking about young Master Levi Johnston. He's the 18-year-old Alaskan hockey enthusiast who knocked up Sarah Palin's daughter, and the National Enquirer describes him as "a boozing pot-smoker who doesn't want to get married" – and John McCain thinks he found his soul mate!
We've all recently seen how evil henchman of the Republican party captured this poor innocent out of his natural habitat and forced him into a shotgun wedding, all so that their campaign narrative of fake family values could be upheld. When the 17-year-old daughter of the vice presidential candidate running on the Jesus ticket is "out to here," it's just better that Levi was introduced as the "fiancé." Looks a little less white trashy.
But that doesn't change the fact that right now Levi is America's number one political prisoner. But Levi, you don't have to be – this is the 21st century, at least in the blue states. We don't have sharia law like in Saudi Arabia, or Alabama, and as much as the Bible thumpers would want it, we still don't have arranged marriages in America. You don't have to do this – you have options. You can pull a Juno – fuck, you live in Juneau! Or you could do what most people do with an unwanted child: give it to Angelina Jolie.
And if you're worried about the baby, don't – let's get real dude, the way you are at 18, a baby's better off not being around you – you'll wind up losing it, or shooting it, or it'll be on the bottom of your skate or something – just let the Palin womenfolk look after it for a while, one more infant in that Mormon compound they call a house won't bother anybody – they'll barely notice another kid at the table, and soon they won't even remember whose seed it was that produced young "Trink" or "Truck" or "Puck" or whatever fucked up redneck name they give him.
In any event, we here at Real Time have taken the liberty of purchasing the website
FreeLevi.org. And I will be happy to give the site over to you if you want to use it to get folks to contribute to some sort of liberty fund so you can get enough money to get out of that frozen meth lab they call a town. And even if the money doesn't come in, listen to me, it's not too late: just grab your skull bong, climb out the window, and get on the highway. I can't actually come get you, or even let you stay at my place because I'm pretty sure you'd smoke all my weed, but just call me from a pay phone, I know of a safe house you can stay 'til after the election, it's like the witness protection program for baby-daddies.
And remember, Levi: California knows how to party. Trust me, the girls out here are going to love a big, high-sticking farm boy like you. If you play your cards right, in a couple weeks you could be screwing the lesbian right out of Lindsay Lohan."