Rick, Mr. Maher is a comedian. He may express his true feelings in joking form, but it's that joking form you're misunderstanding. In comedic hyperbole the exaggeration is used to draw the laughs; the exaggeration isn't the element of "true feeling" of the speaker, rather the underlying message - however exaggerated - is the point.
A good example of comedic hyperbole in action was an old Richard Pryor act in which he recalled his recent trip to Africa, musing that the animal life in Africa was, well, wild. He stated that after an ambush of a cape buffalo, the African buzzards - instead of circling from a high, safe perch above the lions - pulled up in a truck and said "what it is?" to the lions. The assertion is that African wildlife is much more actually wild than American zoos, not that African buzzards speak English and drive automobiles.
Mr. Maher's point was that you individually - you, Rick Santorum - home school your kids because you want to control which elements of information they get, and you then turn around and call them educated. An educated, "reasonable" person would say that inductive training provides an indoctrination, not an education. Ironic that you - the guy who purposely and actively controls the information available to his children - have the nerve to call a university a center for indoctrination, but that's another issue entirely.
You're a pathetic, narrow-minded, egotistical, homophobic bigot with a flair for hypocrisy and an embarrassing lack of handle on facts and reason. Your kids may well turn out to be very smart, well-adjusted, and, one day, educated people. But your home schooling - for the reasons you've said you are doing it - is not the cause of that. Everyone sympathizes with you that you have a special needs child, and even we liberals sincerely wish you and her the very best - and most of us understand why a parent would want to home school a child with those needs. But the others, they belong in a formal education environment not because home schooling is "always" wrong, but because ideological religious zealots like you can only cause damage teaching a child. As proof I submit your tepid grasp on comedy and why a child's reasoning against a comedian would be anything other than a bragging point because comedians OFTEN use logical fallacies and exaggerations to make a joke.
I'm in your corner in this primary because that rich robot against whom you're competing needs to learn that everything else might be for sale but not votes. But don't misunderstand my self-serving interest in your candidacy: It's to take down two equally creepy birds with one stone. 1 a creepy, out-of-touch rich guy who got that way firing thousands of people. And 2, you and your EXTREMELY bigoted and not terribly constitutional views on ... well, pretty much everything.
I suspect that you know your kids could "out-reason" Bill Maher because they quite likely out-reason you with great frequency. But "out-reasoning" a comedian and "out-reasoning" an bigot aren't exactly the same thing. Perhaps your children could logically dissect Maher's COMEDY show and point out the fallacies. What, though, might they do to your "man on dog" assertions? Well, maybe they're taught to ignore "Biblical" logical problems - in that "education" you're giving them. But the truth is that you have no business questioning anyone else's logic until you yourself can square your own MYRIAD conflicts, namely how you seem to pick passages from the Bible as "God's law" while conveniently ignoring others occurring in that same book. Or am I wrong? Have you been stoning your neighbor for not sacrificing a bull at the altar every Sunday? If not, Rick, you've got some 'splainin to do.
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