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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHere's why Bill Maher and John Fetterman are MAGA's favorite liberals
In a new podcast episode, the HBO host and Democratic senator whine about mean lefties, while giggling at Trumps misogynistic insults and whitewashing his lawlessness.
By Anthony L. Fisher
There are plenty of reasons why Bill Maher and John Fetterman are often praised as rare reasonable liberals by President Donald Trumps supporters and fellow travelers.
The Real Time host and the Democratic junior senator from Pennsylvania both nurse grievances that they have been unfairly mistreated by the left. (Maher recently claimed to have been a victim of soft-canceling because his HBO show has never been awarded an Emmy.) They are both strident supporters of Israels ruling far-right government. And, as evidenced by Fettermans appearance Monday on Mahers podcast, Club Random where the gimmick is that the 70-year-old host openly drinks alcohol and smokes weed they both have a tendency to bend over backward to praise Trump or otherwise whitewash some of his most inexcusable behavior.
Right off the bat, the two invoked a truly tiresome, faux-politically homeless bromide. Maher lamented, Everything becomes a political battle. Everything is just an excuse to say your team is stupid and my team is great. It has nothing to do with anything.
As an example, Maher cited the controversy over Trump building the White House ballroom and parroted the MAGA line that such a construction project is urgently needed after the assassination attempt at the White House Correspondents Dinner last month. Maher described the ballrooms cost as couch money, and Fetterman ascribed the backlash to TDS (Trump derangement syndrome) the abbreviation the lazy brain uses to dismiss any and all criticism of Trump.
https://www.ms.now/opinion/bill-maher-john-fetterman-club-random-podcast-trump
Hope22
(4,864 posts)He is an entertainer. As for Fetterman I politely have no comment.
58Sunliner
(6,404 posts)SocialDemocrat61
(7,997 posts)🤣
Lovie777
(23,674 posts)they are magas, both of them.
31st Street Bridge
(249 posts)doesn't dare walk the streets of a Pennsylvania town these days.
No politician in history has been hated here as much as he is right now.
LtTx
(92 posts)is right up there. I know plenty of conservatives, having lived in Texas for 70 years But I don't know a single 1 who admits to voting for Cruz.
3_Limes
(580 posts)Neither is a friend to our causes. I wish we could stop expecting them to act like they are. They're not.
SocialDemocrat61
(7,997 posts)They are not.
Johonny
(26,572 posts)Where your desire to be loved by Trump makes you support stupid ass shit you'd not support if any other human being had done it...
Quiet Em
(2,998 posts)and replaced Maher's name with Greg Gutfeld and Fetterman's name with Lindsey Graham it would read just like your typical MAGA man conversation. There is nothing liberal about either of these two. They both have made it clear that they like and support the con artist and they like and support what he is doing. They are no different from Gutfeld and Graham in my opinion.
Fiendish Thingy
(24,016 posts)He is a professional knee-jerk contrarian libertarian.
Ms. Toad
(38,805 posts)Both fail the first criteria.
SocialDemocrat61
(7,997 posts)JCMach1
(29,240 posts)More like left libertarian asshat...