Bill Maher: Bush is the Van Gogh of Presidents
Entertainment Weekly recently ran an interview with Bill Maher to promote his new HBO special and the upcoming new season of Real Time. As one might expect, politics were discussed:
Since you went on hiatus, [President Bush]'s been in trouble again, on Iraq at least.
But
"Will he change?" is the question. And I promise you he won't. And
the reason I know that is because the other day during his press
conference — did you see him talking about being loved? That's the sign
of death. Because when a president says, [imitates a Bush drawl] "Sure, everybody'd like to be loved,"
that means he's already written off the present. See, he's convinced
himself that the decisions he's making now — even though they're
getting him hated by everyone, including his own party — are going to
be seen as brave decisions in, you know, like, 5 million years. Way down the road.
That's what a genius he is, you see. Not recognized in his own
lifetime. He's like the Van Gogh of presidents — never sold one in his
lifetime, but wait!
For more with Maher, including some discussion of the new documentary he made with Borat-director Larry Charles, head over to EW.
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