Bill Maher Rips Off Jonah Goldberg

Lame. Very lame. I guess when you're a third-rate hack comedian, you have to lift your material from somewhere.

IS Bill Maher a phrase lifter? Jonah Goldberg, a contributor to The Post's Op-Ed pages, tells us he's used the line, "spending money like a pimp with a week to live," in reference to George W. Bush and the GOP Congress, for years - long before the HBO comic started saying it. "I'm fairly certain I made it up," Goldberg says. "Nexis-Lexis says my first - and the first - usage was in 2001. Every other usage, until Maher, is attributed to me as well. I'm not hugely proud of the phrase and I don't really care much that he's using it - but pointing out Maher's unoriginality is modestly enjoyable."