Bill Maher, Chris Matthews: ‘Gruber Was Right,’ Americans ‘Are Stupid’

Bill Maher: "Gruber Was Right, He Just Said What People Don't Want To Hear" (RealClearPolitics)

BILL MAHER: I'm bringing this up because this guy, Jonathan Gruber, he's an M.I.T. professor who worked on the Obama health care plan. Big controversy because they found a tape of him basically saying that the American people are stupid because he -- a lot of tapes -- because what he was saying to get the bill passed we had to do a lot of sleight of hand or else they would not have voted for it. If we called it a "tax" -- even though it was a tax -- you have to basically slip a pill in the dog's food in a piece of ham to get the dog to eat the pill. I agree, and I've heard nobody else in America say that. Everybody on the left and the right: "Oh, how could he call American's stupid?"

Jonathan Gruber, you have met your soulmate. How is this even controversial, I have no idea...

MAHER: Can you blame [Americans] for not know the three branches of government? For checking out on that one? Because that one happened a lot before health care came down the pike... They're stupid.

CHRIS MATTHEWS, GUEST: Gruber was right.