Smallscreen News

Bill Maher's 'Real Time,' off O'Rourke, vexed Sorkin and Tea Party Nazi lover Iott

By April MacIntyre Oct 9, 2010, 18:22 GMT

Interesting show October 8 - Bill Maher - Bill Maher Honored with a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame - Hollywood Walk of Fame - Hollywood, CA, USA © Bob Charlotte / PR Photos

Last night's Bill Maher show "Real Time" was fascinating.

Senior conservative panelist P.J. O'Rourke, a respected friend and mentor of Maher, seemed to be off-topic more often than not, and vexed another panel guest, Andrew Ross Sorkin to no end.  Sorkin is seen at one point looking at the audience putting up his hands in the "where is this guy going" display of exasperated body language.

First up was Biologist Richard Dawkins, who tsked-tsked on how dim Tea party "I'm You" Christine O'Donnell was regarding her naive evolution remarks. 

Maher then introduced his panel, and had two fiscal conservatives this week, atheist and columnist S.E. Cupp; political humorist P.J. O’Rourke; and rounding out the panel was financial columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin.

The juice came with new "Real Time" correspondent, The Atlantic’s senior editor Josh Green (we miss Matt Taibbi, hope to see him again soon) Green discovered GOP candidate Rich Iott, running for Ohio’s 9th Congressional District, is a Nazi war criminal re-enacter, because he admired the Third Reich's Wehrmacht prowess.

 Mr. Iott, who is strongly backed by the Tea Party, is part of a group that dresses in German Waffen SS uniforms and participates in Nazi re-enactments.

Green broke the news on Bill Maher's HBO show.

Mr. Iott, who confirms his involvement with the group, denies any belief in the principles of Nazism.

“It’s purely historical interest in World War II,” he told the Atlantic.

Here Iott is outed as a dress-up Nazi: