I always liked Bill Maher’s take on current affairs, his bitter sense of humor and iconoclastic irony. Some have compared him with Michael Moore (but then on the other side of the political spectrum), but I think very unfairly. Bill Maher can make you laugh and get you angry at the same time.

That he can manage to upset a couple of socialists, while entertaining me, can only be considered as added value to his work.

From the SocialistWorker.org:

I’M OUTRAGED about Bill Maher’s recent rant against teachers unions on his show Real Time with Bill Maher. Maher stated, “Teacher’s unions–now that’s one union we must break.” He went on to say that such unions just “protect bad teachers.”
This is the same tired argument made by conservatives in blaming the poor educational system in this country on teachers. This ignores, of course, the decades of social science research that shows that the better the resources a school has, the better the results.