Maher on Obama Library: "Couldn't that money be better spent on something else? Who's going to go to this?"

[Abolishinist]

188. How uppiity of him? He was against them over 21 years ago.

CNN Larry King Live - Interview With Bill Maher

Aired November 23, 2004 - 21:00

KING: But what about libraries?

MAHER: But Libraries, you know, I got a million come-ons in the mail to contribute to the library, and I threw them all in the trash. Why do we need to spend $165 million on a presidential library? That is not charity, it's a monument to ego. It is a personality cult. Pavilions built about golf clubs and White house Pets.

KING: You don't like all libraries. All presidential...

MAHER: Well, presidential libraries. You can find that material elsewhere. So much of charity walks along the path of we're doing something good for our fellow man. Giving to your alma mater to me should not be a write-off. I know where a lot of that money that goes to colleges goes. It goes to the entertainment budget, because I get paid a lot of money by colleges and it comes out of the entertainment budget. If you want to give to your college, that's your business. If you want to give to a presidential library. But don't parade it around as something that's noble or something that's educational.

Interesting how Maher, Faux News and others never had any issues with the cost of a Presidential Center until a black man built one. “How uppity of him.”