This article over at the Hollywood Reporter is headlined, "Bill Maher Pens Blistering Essay on Hillary as 'Charlie Brown,' Trump and Why Bernie Sanders, Socialist, Can Win."
Two things wrong with it, the first being that the article really doesn't have enough to do with Hollywood to warrant being in the Hollywood Reporter. Secondly, Maher didn't "pen" an essay. At the end of the piece, it says, "As told to Seth Abramovitch." So Maher gave an interview, folding in lots of lines he and his writers have come up with for his show and/or his stand-up act and this Seth person turned all that into an essay.
I have little respect for Mr. Maher when it comes to medical advice and his view of Muslims, which he continuously seems to be walking back to more moderate turf, is still a bit too Trump for me. But I agree with a lot of what this article says about Obama and Hillary and various other folks who either have lived in the White House or aspire to dwell within.
And I just got a text saying Carly Fiorina has dropped out of the presidential race. If Christie quits in the next hour or so, Stephen Colbert's staff has to drop whatever he's about to tape and furiously cobble up another Hunger Games parody.