Salon columnist: His 'passion seems to be coming from a real place'
(NEWSER) - The right loves to hate Bill Maher—and sometimes the left hates to love him. With his “prickly-pear” personality and his tendency to rile his audience—and not care in the slightest—“Maher is American punditry’s cranky uncle,” writes Matt Zoller Seitz on Salon . The crankiness was on full display when he appeared on the Tonight Show this week, calling the audience “morons” at one point. (He also made waves on his HBO show last night by telling the Tea Party that the "Founding Fathers would have hated your guts," notes Mediaite .) Maher, in short, “takes the provocateur role to vertigo-inducing heights.” More»
