by Brent Baker
If Gary Condit is responsible for getting rid of Chandra Levy, Ken Starr deserves some of the “guilt.” So reasoned Bill Maher, host of ABC’s Politically Incorrect, last Friday night on CNN’s Larry King Live.
In a comment on the July 27 CNN show Maher argued that “if it turns out that this beautiful young girl is gone, I think, and he [Condit] is responsible in some way, you have to look to Ken Starr for a little bit of guilt” because, thanks to Starr, a criminal case is now made out of affairs. So, Maher claimed in referring to a politician’s lover, “it's almost like you have to get rid of them.” Maher contended: “I think that's what Gary Condit was going through his mind, is, you know, I can't get caught with someone. If she's coming to me and saying she's pregnant…”
Here’s the exchange in full on the July 27 Larry King Live. Maher was quite serious in tone and was not just telling a bad joke:
Maher: “But the other thing I wanted to say is, I do think, if it turns out that this beautiful young girl is gone, I think, and he [Condit] is responsible in some way, you have to look to Ken Starr for a little bit of guilt.”
King: “Why?”
Maher: “Because, you know, Ken Starr made it so that you, in the old days, you had an affair with somebody, and you know, okay, you had an affair. The press didn't report it. They didn't make a political criminal case of it. Now, it's almost like you have to get rid of them. That’s really what-”
King: “Ken Starr put that onus on them.”
Maher: “Yeah, I think that's what Gary Condit was going through his mind, is, you know, I can't get caught with someone. If she's coming to me and saying she's pregnant or she's gonna, you know, go to the press-”
King: “You're going to figure out a way to blame Ken Starr for something, aren't you, Maher?”
Maher: “I'm telling you.”
King: “Boy.”
Maher: “It’s like, that's a whole new wrinkle in it.”
King: “He always causes us to think differently.”
Just when you thought the Hollywood Left had run out of things for which to blame Ken Starr. So much for encouraging personal responsibility and avoiding “mean-spirited” personal attacks for which media “progressives” regularly castigate traditionalists.
(This report courtesy of the Media Research Center.)
