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• Friday, September 5, 2008 03:53 PM

  Maher is playing the "smart card"

  Surprise, surprise. Shame on you, Bill Maher, for attacking the weakest and most vulnerable among us. That's right, the "intellectually challenged."

  They should not be confused with those undeserving so-called "developmentally disabled" people who are constantly suckling from the welfare teat and may possibly be hiding the fact that they watch the news and know something about the election and may even know who they want to vote for. Why, I've seen those frauds in polling places, filling out ballots and flashing a voter registration card--tsk, tsk! Meanwhile, the intellectually challenged suffer, and struggle, and triumph in total obscurity, unheralded, uncomplaining.

  And yet, they're all around you, living normal lives, even, in some cases, making boatloads more money than you. On the radio! On the talking heads circuit! In the statehouses of Georgia, Mississippi, and Alabama! At the helm of General Motors! Why, even our own President and many of his staff are members of this proud, suffering group!

  They have so much to teach us--their boldness, their determination, their inveterate incuriosity about the world should be an inspiration to us. Shame on you for driving a wedge between ordinary Americans. I'm calling your sponsors.

  —Marianna Trench Read Marianna Trench's other letters
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