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In reply to the discussion: Bill Maher is becoming an insufferable clown. [View all]meadowlander
(4,395 posts)but prefers to cash in on his rant of the week instead of having any kind of ideological consistency.
His show has not evolved since the late 90s when for some reason all the television producers decided that what people really wanted to see was people arguing with each other.
Points that have been made to Maher repeatedly and that he refuses to take on board:
1. Ranting about "political correctness" is really just defensiveness about being called out for being an inconsiderate asshole. Defending this kind of behaviour, which Maher has done for decades, leads in a straight, bright line to Trumpism.
2. Both-siderism in the media is part of the toxic stew in political commentary that led us to Trump. And yet he invites Steve Schmidt on his progam and instead of letting him talk about why he hates Trump who was literally destroying the country that week, Maher baits him about Title IX for the better part of twenty minutes until he can get Schmidt to agree that he still disagrees with Democrats about some things. What is the point of that other than a pathological inability to go through a whole show without having the panel dissolve into a shouting match?
Bill Maher isn't an insufferable clown. He's a contrarian dinosaur who has failed to learn the most important lessons of the past five years and demonstrates that failure every week on his show.