I kid you not. Noel Sheppard of Newsbusters is on this, too. This is about tonight’s Real Time and the segment where Bill Maher indicates his preference would have been for Rush Limbaugh to “croak” from OxyContin as opposed to Heath Ledger.

P.J. O’Rourke also proclaims that we are nearing the end of conservative talk radio. Heh. Little does he know.

Here’s a transcript:

Maher: Why is it, I was asking Amy this, why is it that the Republican establishment, I guess it is, have so much disdain, not just for McCain, but for the other guy who’s still in it; Huckabee. They don’t like either one of them.

PJ: Well, I think a couple of things are going on. It’s the it’s the twilight of the radio loud-mouth, you know? I knew it from the moment the fat guy…

Maher: …You mean Rush Limbaugh and Sean..?

PJ: …from the moment the fat guy refused to share his drugs (audience laughter). I was, you know…he never called, he never wrote. I’m ready to party, you know, come on! No, I think it’s kind of over for those people. So…

Maher: Right, you mean the OxyContin that he was on?

PJ: Yeah, exactly. I mean, that stuff’s good!

Maher: Why couldn’t, uh, why couldn’ta he croaked from it instead of Heath Ledger? (small audience groans)

PJ: Yeah, yeah.

Watch the video here.