or maybe not

Bill Maher must have encountered some serious pressure at HBO. He said quite clearly on CNN's Larry King Live a couple of nights ago that he would name names and out some of the closeted gay Republicans (and specifically mentioned Ken Mehlman) on his Real Time show tonight, and while his final monologue was indeed on the topic of that type of hypocrisy he didn't discuss anybody specifically except for the front-page famous and recently resigned evangelical leader Haggard. Even the end of the show was unusually subdued. It will be interesting to see if any further background about all of this emerges.