During Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher lamented the passing of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and what it meant for politics amid the 2020 election cycle. After proclaiming Ginsburg to be an “awesome woman,” Maher told his audience Ginsburg’s demonstrates why Donald Trump could not be allowed to be…
HBO’s Real Time host Bill Maher addressed Bill Clinton’s ties to the late financier Jeffrey Epstein amid claims that the former president visited the convicted sex offender on his private island. “I know in your book you say you got 2016 wrong because you forgot Bill Clinton’s first rule of politics, which is: make it about…
HBO’s Real Time host Bill Maher decried “cancel culture” on Friday’s show, telling his guests that “we need a pushback” on the movement. Maher held a panel discussion with Bari Weiss, a former New York Times Opinion editor, and Thomas Chatterton Williams, a columnist for Harper’s Magazine. The pair discussed the open letter they, along with other…
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher expressed his concern that the “guardians of gotcha” are creating an environment that will “make people afraid to mingle at all, and thrust us back towards a re-segregation of sorts, where instead of just seeing a person, and not a color, now we’re only seeing…
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher stated that recent protests have shown “young people will risk going out for an important cause” and that they should do so for the cause of preventing an economic depression. Maher congratulated the millennials who have volunteered for trials to help speed up a vaccine…
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher stated that the response to crimes in Los Angeles over the past week was “a little slow” and stated that the “blue wall of silence” needs to break and the officers “who watch and do crowd control for atrocities, they’re not good either.” Maher began by…
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher argued that the impeachment of President Trump was “a horrible thing” that he wouldn’t do again if he had a do-over. Because, in retrospect, it only ended up emboldening Trump, and now the president “can conduct this war on accountability,” such as his firing of…
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher criticized media coverage of the coronavirus by stating that “nonstop gloom and doom … gives Trump the chance to play the optimist, and optimists tend to win American elections.” Maher said, “Now that we’re starting to see some hope in all this, don’t hope-shame me.…
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher defended Facebook refusing to fact-check political ads by stating he doesn’t want “political speech policed by the accuracy regulation departments” at social media companies. Maher said, “Zuckerberg has decided Facebook will not be policing political speech on their site, or fact-checking any political ads. And…
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher urged both former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton to “go away” and argued that neither of them can be at the 2020 DNC Convention. Maher said, “[T]he Clintons, they’ve got to go away. I’m saying this now, a year out,…
