Scott Galloway Smears Mike Johnson as ‘David Duke-Lite’

(via NewsBusters)

Professor, frequent media guest, atheist, and former CNN+ host Scott Galloway traveled over to HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday to prove he knows nothing about religious people as he declared that new Speaker Mike Johnson’s belief God ordained him as Speaker proves he is “David Duke-lite.” Fellow atheist Maher did not go that far, but did play the Mussolini card.

Galloway huffed, “Democracy, the pillars of that are one: the peaceful transfer of power and this guy was an architect of trying to arrest that in a society that is secular and when a guy gets this nod and says that God ordained it, I’m like ‘Well, boss, whose God is that?’”

Many people believe that God has a plan for their life and that everything that happens in the world is part of that plan. It is a basic belief that you would hear preached at any church in the world, but Galloway finds it tremendously scary, “Because this is — the whole point here is that we separate church and state, that we believe in the peaceful transfer of power and the reason this guy is Speaker is none of us have the time to read his resume and realize he's David Duke-lite.”

Maher, proving he is also still very much a liberal atheist, replied, “I don't know if he's David Duke-lite, I read today he has an adopted black son, I don't think David Duke would do that, but he is a religious nut.”