HA-HA: MORAL INCOHERENCE AND IRRATIONAL ANALYSIS FROM SO-CALLED SOCIAL CRITIC AND COMIC BILL MAHER

Bill Maher on Larry King (Hat tip KJ at NRO):

We don't know what he'd [John Roberts] do if he had to rule on Roe versus Wade, but at least he has a shot, I think, at becoming the kind of justice that is not in the hip pocket of the right wing. Having said that, ladies, get your abortions now. If you need one, go now!... I am more sympathetic on the abortion issue than I am on most right wing socially conservative issues, because you know, you don't have to be religious to be against abortion. I do sort of understand what they're saying. If you've ever seen a sonogram, you know, you could see something that's emerging as a human being in there. And we are sort of reaching in and killing it. I'm just not against that...

I'm a board member of PETA. And this [caller] is exactly right, and I'm glad he raised the issue. It's despicable the way we treat animals in this country. And it's part and parcel to our general lack of compassion for things that don't affect us directly.

Er... um, treating animals badly is immoral but it's okay to reach-in a kill an "emerging human"?!?! Yipes! Maher's views on "humane treatment" of animals and of fetuses is as awful and as immoral and as unprincipled and as irrational as his stand on the war in Iraq. Of course, this is TYPICAL of the Left. And it's why the Left is USELESS: Immoral and confused thinking (like Maher's/like the Left's) can NEVER yield effective analysis or policy.