And that is not a good thing…

Mr. Maher recently told his Twitter followers that people who get flu shots are "idiots."

(For the record, here's that tweet: "If u get a swine flu shot ur an idiot." U r gng 2 hav 2 xcuse his spllng. Hes supr hip!!! Anyway, shall we continue?)

On his Friday HBO show "Real Time With Bill Maher," he explained his opposition to the flu vaccine during an interview with Bill Frist, a heart surgeon who was a Republican senator from Tennessee…

He said he did not believe that healthy people were vulnerable to dying from the new H1N1 virus. This contradicts statements from the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that young, healthy people from ages 5 to 24 appear particularly vulnerable to this flu. About a third of the 76 children who have died of H1N1 since April have had no underlying health problems…

Dr. Frist then cited two recent New England Journal of Medicine articles describing flu cases in the United States and the Southern Hemisphere that documented the high risks of this flu to pregnant women.

Dr. Frist: I know you don't believe this, but I'm telling you the facts. Because if you send a signal out telling pregnant women not to get this vaccine…

Mr. Maher: (interrupting) I do.

Dr. Frist: Well, you're wrong. I'm serious.

I get it, Bill Maher. I understand why you didn't immediately say, "Okay, I admit it. I'm the wrongest person ever. Let's take a break while I have my brain parts repaired."

Because it's, like, super embarrassing to have Bill Frist — a man who thinks it's possible to ascertain a person's brain function by observing home videos of them lying in a bed — remind you of how remarkably dangerous and irresponsible it is to use your celebrity to try to get pregnant women to not vaccinate themselves against a virus that is targeting them directly.

It's probably, like, even more embarrassing than getting dropped off at school by your totally lame single father who's always crying from loneliness and fear of loss as you recede farther and farther from the car.

Just so long as you stop promoting this nonsense now, we'll give you a pass.

His brand new movie — the, by all accounts, brilliant piece conservative cinema merde, An American Carol — went head to head with Maher's also-just-opening anti-religious-dogma Religulous. And it beat it at the box office by a whole $310,000.

And it was only showing on 3.26 times as many screens!

There's a lesson to be learned here: Conservatives are always funny.

The right-wing readership of this blog (assuming he logs in today), might want to patronize "An American Carol," the new pro-war right-wing comedy from one of the guys who brought you The Naked Gun.

"An American Carol" features almost every prominent conservative in Hollywood, including…

* Chris Farley’s thinner, less funny younger brother.

* Gary Coleman as a slave.

* Kelsey Grammar being dickish for a change.

* Dennis Hopper confusing everyone who saw him in "Easy Rider."

* Papa Bear Bill O’Reilly as himself!!

The film's main goal is to denigrate Michael Moore (totally redundant if you've ever seen "Canadian Bacon"), and to advocate war as a fine solution to life’s problems.

Those who are of the Moore persuasion themselves should skip "An American Carol" and instead see "Religulous," a new documentary from Bill Maher and Larry Charles that critically profiles world religious beliefs, from Christianity to Judaism to Mormonism to Scientology.

No word as of press time what "Religulous" has to say about creationist, tongue-speaking, "witchcraft-free" Holy War crusaders who want to "pray away the gay," which is all the more reason you should be watching the VP debate tonight.

I wonder if they'll both, once again, reach the consensus that John McCain is preferable to the other guy because he was in a war (and, apparently, drank his own urine) and the other guy wasn't?

Like at the 1:00 minute mark of this Daily Show clip from 1999…

Goes to show you how much the world has changed in nine years. If you notice, Bill and Jon aren't just saying they choose McCain over George W. Bush.

They're saying they choose him over George W. Bush, and the two Democrats: Bill Bradley and Al Gore.

To be fair, though, the late '90s were the days of McCain 1.0.

UPDATE: No surprise, no endorsement for McCain from either Jon or Bill last night.  They didn't talk much election politics but Bill Maher does refer to Obama as "our boy."  Stewart remains uncommitted.

Part 2 after the jump…

However, their somewhat open definition of the word mashup appears to be "any collection of media that plays in any kind of variable order." By that definition, our Songs to Do Pilates To playlist on iTunes is also a mashup. Quite frankly, we were a little underwhelmed with the presentation.

Here's some actual candidate mashups…

Pimp My Ron Paul feat. R. Kelly

Mitt Romney on Sex

The Bestest Candidate Debate

What are some of your favorite candidate mashups? Drop your links (or just embed them) in the comments section of this post.