Obama Goes After Fox News and Trump on Bill Maher
The POTUS’s long-awaited appearance on HBO’s ‘Real Time with Bill Maher’ didn’t disappoint.
MARLOW STERN
11.05.16 3:03 AM ET
Bill Maher is the Rodney Dangerfield of political satire. No respect. The uncompromising comic who brought political comedy to late-night television with Politically Incorrect has received 35 Emmy nominations between that and his HBO series Real Time with Bill Maher, winning zero. If that weren’t enough, Maher’s been trying for years to get President Barack Obama—who is no stranger to television—on his highly-rated program, culminating with a White House petition garnering 320,000 signatures.
Well, on Friday night, POTUS finally gave in, granting Maher a sit-down interview that ran much longer than the twenty minutes allotted Samantha Bee.
“For the interview tonight, we were thrilled to be invited to the Roosevelt Room of the White House where the president was,” said an ecstatic Maher. “And I can tell you that the president was extraordinarily generous with his time. I wanted to ask him the kind of questions that we crazy people here at Real Time might be interested in—the kinds of questions he doesn’t often get.”
After delivering his usual spiel about how much he’s “loved this job” and what a “singular privilege” it’s been, POTUS was grilled with a couple of tough questions by Maher—one on the state of the news media, and the other on legalization of marijuana. He dodged the latter, but delivered an interesting response to the former.
“The question I’d have when it comes to the media is how do we create a space where truth gets eyeballs and is entertaining, and we can build a common conversation?” asked President Obama. “When I leave here, one of the things I’m most concerned about is the balkanization of the media where you’ve got 800 stations and you’ve got all these websites. People have difficulty now just sorting what’s true and what’s not. If you don’t have some common baseline of facts, you know, we can have a disagreement about how to deal with climate change, but if we have a big chunk of the country that just discounts what 99 percent of scientists say completely, it’s very hard to figure out how we move the democracy forward.”
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