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RUSH: Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites. We\u2019re gonna go now to ABC\u2019s This Week with George Stephanopoulos. This is the roundtable, and they\u2019re talking about Bill Maher\u2019s remarks on Friday night about Ann Romney. The guest is Melody Barnes, former White House domestic policy adviser for Obama. So this is Stephanopoulos and Melody Barnes talking about Bill Maher.<\/p>\n
BARNES: The language, the sentiment are problematic. And the campaign has — and the president has — said, “Look, civility is… It matters. The way we talk to each other matters.” I saw David Axelrod in earlier situations when comments have been made by Bill Maher say, “I\u2019m not going on your show. I\u2019m booking away. I\u2019m distancing myself.”<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay, so I don\u2019t think they solved anything there. That\u2019s Melody Barnes struggling in vain for a cogent thought to answer the question. Because what she didn\u2019t want to say is, “Yeah, the president ought to throw him overboard,” because they don\u2019t want to get rid of the his money. They do not want to give back the million dollars. So they\u2019ve gotta say, “Well, Maher, he\u2019s not one of us!” It\u2019s like Hilary Rosen: “She\u2019s not one of us. She see works at CNN!”<\/p>\n
So later during the roundtable talking about Maher\u2019s remarks, they got Cokie Roberts of ABC News, Stephanopoulos and Hurricane Katrina vanden Heuvel from The Nation magazine.<\/p>\n
ROBERTS: What Maher does and what Rosen did, even though I certainly know that you\u2019re just talking on television, sometimes you say things —<\/p>\n
STEPHANOPOULUS: You wish it would have come out a different way.<\/p>\n
ROBERTS: We\u2019ve all done it. But the fact is that it plays into an image of the Democrats as this out of touch with regular people, and elitist and kind of snooty.<\/p>\n
VANDEN HEUVEL: But to pick up on what Cokie says, I think these discussions about Bill Maher and Hilary Rosen, Ann Romney, much of that plays into a view that our politics are failing to deal with the massive deep-seated problems this country has. There are people in this country who are looking, perhaps at us right now in this roundtable, and saying, “You\u2019re not connecting to my problems or my life.” Let\u2019s get with it. Forget Bill Maher.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>RUSH: Right, right, let\u2019s forget Bill Maher, but Rush Limbaugh, we\u2019ll sit here for a month and talk about it and try to connect it with your life. Katrina, what do you want to talk about on your roundtable? What problems do people have that you don\u2019t think you\u2019re connecting with here? Is it Obama\u2019s economy? See, they\u2019re eager, they want to sweep Bill Maher away. Women are from Venus; Democrat women are from Bill Mahers. That\u2019s the problem that they have here. They don\u2019t quite know what to do. See, secretly, they think Maher is the funniest guy. When he comes out and he zings — oh! They love Bill Maher. When he does this, you know, they sit there, “Ah, gee,” they have to defend him. They can\u2019t throw him overboard, because to them he\u2019s way too valuable when you measure it on balance. <\/p>\n