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Maher Continues to Bait Grimm, Farenthold for #FlipaDistrict

Comedian Bill Maher still wants to #flipadistrict from Republican to Democrat, and on his HBO show on March 28, he continued to lambast two of his GOP targets: New York’s Michael G. Grimm and Texas’s Blake Farenthold.  

“They got pisssssssssssed!” chuckled Maher.  

Maher read a statement from Grimm as reported in the lawmaker’s hometown newspaper, the Staten Island Advance : “From the ultra-liberal new Mayor Bill de Blasio and now the left-wing, anti-Catholic Bill Maher, a troubling pattern is emerging where the most radical progressives in the country are coming out and supporting my opponent.”  

“I don’t even know who your opponent is!” Maher crowed. For the record, Grimm’s likely Democratic challenger is Domenic Recchia, a former city councilman from Brooklyn.  

“It’s said that you can tell a lot about someone by who opposes them,” Farenthold told Breitbart News . “In the case of liberal pundit Bill Maher … I wear his disapproval of me as a badge of honor.”  

The Texas Republican, in a separate interview with KTRH News Radio , said, “I do have a Democrat running against me. Unless Maher is able to get him a lot of money, I think I’m okay.”  

“I love it when politicians reveal themselves like this,” Maher told his audience after quoting Farenthold. “That’s the point of us doing this. That yes, you have a big wallet, and I don’t think in America ‘I have the biggest wallet’ should always win.”  

Fourteen additional House Republicans will be nominated by fans via Twitter over the next few weeks, ultimately to be whittled to one candidate whose midterm opponent Maher will support.  

Christina Bellantoni contributed to this report .

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