I watched the show last night. He surprised me when he responded to criticism from fans about his increasing criticism of Dems by stating it was becasue Dems were becoming more weird, BUT the Republicans were becoming weirder.
He also made clear his contempt for Trump.
What will not be cherry picked by conix:
However, Maher said, “we were given the false impression that these protesters are the voice of their generation, having found a cause for which they were willing to go to the tents and to the barricades. Oh please, these kids are more violent when their team wins a championship.” At this, he displayed a photo of a sports-related riot that really was vastly more violent than anything exhibited by protesters (though not by police or people who have attacked the protesters unprovoked).
Maher cited a recent Harvard youth poll that showed the issue of Gaza is one of the less important issues among young voter. “The vast majority just want to do what they went to college for in the first place: To experiment with being a lesbian.”
Maher then poked fun at a frequent slogan about the protests — “the whole world is watching” — but not because of the slogan. “Only because you assholes with the cameras won’t show anything else. Isn’t there a bear in a swimming pool you have somewhere you should be covering?”
“So I thought as a public service, since it’s so hard to find reliable news these days tonight, I would provide a few rules of thumb for trying to follow the news in our modern age, starting with if the headlines in your preferred news outlet routinely feature words like ‘treads,’ ‘destroys,’ ‘pummels,’ ‘bashes,’ your outlet is a partisan piece of s—. Either that or you’re reading a Batman comic,” Maher said.
“Ditto with ‘obliterates, ‘roasts, ‘annihilates’ and ‘owns,'” Maher said, arguing news “is supposed to be a source for information, not Nikki Glaser at the Tom Brady roast.”
Maher continued along these lines for a while, eventually arguing that “every problem in the world isn’t caused by the President. When that train derailed in East Palestine, it wasn’t because Trump deregulated the brakes and the containership didn’t hit the bridge because of Biden’s woke DEI agenda. These aren’t news stories. They’re storylines pumped into your bubble.”
