Bill Maher Is Breaking Up With MSNBC: 'You've Stopped Leaning Forward' [View all]

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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/bill-maher-msnbc-bridge-scandal

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He says "bridgegate" has become just like Fox's Benghazi
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Bill Maher is launching his own personal protest against MSNBC's wall-to-wall coverage of the George Washington Bridge scandal.

Maher has been pretty dismissive of the scandal from the beginning, arguing that Chris Christie will emerge even stronger and that there will be no smoking gun tying the New Jersey governor to the politically motivated lane closures.

That outlook puts the liberal comedian sharply at odds with MSNBC, which has given significant coverage to the scandal and broken news on the lane closures.

So Maher announced in a blog post on Friday that he's done with the liberal cable news channel.

Whatever we had is not working any more. You're obviously interested in another man: Chris Christie. You're obsessed with him. So I wanted you to hear it from me first. I'm going to start seeing other news organizations. I'll miss what we had. It was a rocket ship ride. We were both passionate flaming liberals and we didn't care what the world thought of us. It was a glorious time. We finished each other's Sarah Palin jokes. But now we never talk about any of the things we used to talk about: global warming, gun control, poverty... All because Chris Christie came along and put you under his spell.

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If you go to the link, I haven't seen a comment yet that agrees with BIll