Bill Maher's take on Obama lapel pin b.s.

I'm a big fan of Bill Maher, and I make no apology for it. His Friday night show on HBO, Real Time With Bill Maher, is always can't-miss TV, but on Friday, Maher was at his best when talking about one of the dumbest news stories to ever come out of a presidential campaign - that Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) stopped wearing a lapel pin.

It never ceases to amaze me (and I'll never tire of pointing out) the moronic news stories that gain "mainstream media" traction, when the real news stories go under-reported, or not reported at all. So Obama ceasing to wear a lapel pin makes him less patriotic than our windshield cowboy, President Bush? Boy, thank God Bush wears his American flag pin every day, but he routinely under funds the troops, cuts taxes on the rich in dozens of ways, gives the finger to the constitution whenever inconvenient laws clash with his political agenda, to say nothing of the fact that he started a war on a mountain of lies, which has tragically taken the lives of thousands of Americans (3,827 as of this morning) and tens of thousands of Iraqis.

But Barack Obama may not fit to be president because he stopped wearing a pin of an American flag? You've got to be kidding me. This is typical Republican pseudo-outrage though - when times get tough, wrap yourself in the American flag and question your opponents' patriotism. It's a song that's been sung far too many times in recent years - this is the first example from the '08 election, but it sure won't be the last. And nothing is more pathetic than that.