In this episode, “NewsBusted” covers: President Obama, military tribunals, Dick Cheney, C.I.A., budget deficits, robot surgery, Nancy Pelosi, Congress, CraigsList, illegal immigrants, Michelle Obama, Maxim magazine, Wanda Sykes, Mia Farrow, and Kirstie Alley.

One of the great things about the election of Barack Obama is how it terminated the relevance of Bill Maher. Remember Maher? He was that “edgy” guy who crowned himself the King of all things politically incorrect. At times he could be really funny – but the more he fixated on easy targets, the less “incorrect” he became. His shtick is now little more than a smirk in a suit, a walking catalogue of jokes that could have been written by the most brain dead of Huffpo commenters.

So now that the Republicans are out of power – who’s Bill going after now? In his column in the Los Angeles Times … it`s the Republicans who aren’t in power.

And this shows what happens when your recent career has been little more than one easy Bush joke after another: when the target of that joke is gone – what’s left?

Oh yeah, a teabagging joke. (more…)