Hillary inhaled on Willie Nelson's bus?

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In overtime on the show they have this poll at the very bottom of the screen that asks if "Did you hear Merle say that Hillary took a pinch hit?" With Willie?

Its Hillar-ious.....

That's funny. I don't even care if it's true or not.

Yeah Marilynn, it was very funny, I don't know if the part about Hillary inhaling happened or not, but what happened on Bill Maher's Show did happen and that was very interesting and funny.

I was part shocked and also relieved because if Hillary does indeed partake of the weed then she is even more OK in my book because it makes her all the more human and accessible than these right wingers who pretend that they are the perfect example of Christian virtue when in fact they are smug, arrogant, and hypocritical.

Did you guys here the shocking news on Bill Maher last night about Hillary?

Not me.

Hey Doug check out this story.

Saw that segment about Hillary inhaling. Was hysterical! Although the segment with Haggard was the only thing worth really watching.

MAHER: [overlapping]?have gotten someone on the satellite who is purely white. [laughter] Merle Haggard. You can find his latest two projects out now. His box set, ?Merle Haggard: The Original Outlaw? and his number-one bluegrass CD, ?Bluegrass Sessions.? Please welcome Merle Haggard! Finally got up on the satellite. [applause] [cheers] Merle, I?m glad you made it! How you doin??

MERLE HAGGARD [via satellite]: Hey, all right. How you doin?, Bill?

MAHER: Thank you for joining us. I?ve wanted to talk to you for quite a while. I read a great quote of yours in Esquire magazine. They have a great page there where people of a certain age share their wisdom that they?ve learned over a life. And you said, ?I?ve lived at the end of what must have been a wonderful country.?

BELZER: Wow, heartbreaking.

MAHER: What ? what did you mean by that?

HAGGARD: Well, let me say, ?Good evening, friends and conservatives,? first. [laughter]

BELZER: What did he say? [laughter]

HAGGARD: I have really?no, I didn?t say that. [laughter]

MAHER: No, you did. And you said it well. And, you know, it reminds me that, look, I was raised in the northeast. We were not big country music fans. The music not always on my radio, but, I must say, the lyrics of country music, better than pop music. Southern people are more poetic. Why is that?

HAGGARD: They?re probably poorer. [laughter] They don?t have the money. They have more reason to be creative.

MAHER: So?okay. Now, the other reason I was so interested to talk to you is that you ? you wrote a song for Hillary Clinton, and it?s called, ?Let?s Put a Woman in Charge.? She?s using it?

HAGGARD: [overlapping] No, I was?

MAHER: Yeah?

HAGGARD: It was called ?Hillary,? and I gave it to her, and she played it at a couple of the deals she had going, and everybody liked it. And somebody in her camp took it down to Nashville and had a bunch of writers write another song, or all the songs they could write named ?Hillary.? And it kind of like knocked me down. I thought, Jesus, you know, what?s going on? [laughter]

MAHER: So?[he laughs] [laughter]?so you got back up and you dusted yourself off. [laughter]

HAGGARD: I dusted myself off.

MAHER: And ? are you still supporting Hillary Clinton for president? Because I know you said you wanted her for president.

HAGGARD: No, I didn?t say that. [laughter] I just simply wrote a song that said that Hillary would probably be the best ?buy.? You know, you get Bill and you get?

MAHER: Wow, that?s parsing it closer than Bill. [laughter] The song is called, ?Let?s Put a Woman in Charge.? What other woman is out there? [laughter]

HAGGARD: Well, there?s only one.

MAHER: Okay.

HAGGARD: But, I predicted ? I predicted 15 years ago that she would be president of the United States. And I really don?t know why. I just felt like that?s what she had in mind when she first came to the White House.

MAHER: All right, let me ask you about ?Okie From Muskogee,? because I was 13 years old when that came out. And I remember it came on the radio ? and people talk about nowadays as a time when there?s this partisan bickering and America is so divided ? well, there was nothing more divisive than the Vietnam war, the hippies versus the people who listened to ?Okie From Muskogee.? And I remember very clearly when that song came on the radio, and the first lyric in that song was, ?We don?t smoke marijuana in Muskogee.? And I was only 13, and I remember saying to myself, ?I don?t know where Muskogee is, but I?m glad I don?t live there.? [laughter]

HAGGARD: [he laughs] [applause] [cheers] Well, let me ? ditto, you know, I?m very seldom there either.

MAHER: [overlapping] Merle, have you mellowed on that marijuana issue? [laughter]

HAGGARD: I am seldom in Muskogee. [laughter] [applause] [cheers]

MAHER: [he laughs] And I bet you Willie Nelson is never there. [laughter]

HAGGARD: Willie cannot be found in Muskogee. [laughter]

MAHER: But, I know, Willie is a very good friend of yours. I mean, certainly you must have been around marijuana.

HAGGARD: Oh, I?ve been around it. In fact, we met Hillary ? she came in Willie?s bus?[laughter]?and, of course?[laughter]?she took a big whiff, and I think inhaled. [laughter] [applause] [cheers]?[pause] [laughter]

MAHER: All right, Merle Haggard, everybody! [applause] [cheers] We appreciate you being patient with our satellite. Merle Haggard. By the way, because he wrote this song for Hillary Clinton, it got me thinking about other candidate?s songs.

That's awesome , I got high with Roger Clinton in Memphis before Bill's first term as President. He had some great stuff too.

Love that funkadelic music.