Bill Maher on Mitt Romney's visit to Liberty University: "A guy in magic gym shorts talking to virgin Baptists. Clown, meet college."

Courtesy of the Huffington Post:

 "You can't expect me to believe anything Mitt Romney said last week at Liberty University, because a) he's a liar and b) Liberty University isn't really a university," Maher began. "It's not like an actual statesman visited a real college. It's more like the Tupac hologram visited Disneyland and said what he would do as president during the Main Street Electrical Parade."

I loved this part of Maher's New Rules on Saturday, because it has long irritated me that these religious schools are allowed to teach bullshit to their students and pass it off as an "education." Because the University meets the requirements of  accreditation the students, at least on paper, appear to be as knowledgeable as students from any other university.

Of course what they really are is little Fundie soldiers who are supposed to go out into the world and change law, politics, and even entertainment in this country to meet Jerry Falwell's extraordinarily narrow Biblical world view.

But Mitt Romney, who KNOWS he must get the Evangelicals to support him or he is as dead in the water politically as his wife is in the marital bed, sucked it and actually pretended that he was talking to a group of people who respected him. Which of course they didn't, as evidenced by the fact that one of the classes offered is called Theology 678—Western and New Religions.

Here is the description of that class's curriculum:

"The history, doctrines, and present state of the major cults such as Mormonism, Christian Science, Jehovah's Witnesses and Seventh Day Adventism. The course will also include a study of the Occult Movement. Emphasis is placed on the errors of these groups and on methods and materials for confronting them effectively."

 Oh yeah I'm sure they hung on his every word.