Maher is doubling down on smearing Democrats and caricaturing them as loony leftists.
As I wrote in November, Maher's smears rely on falsehoods and misleading data points washingtonmonthly.com/2022/01/17/new…
But a couple things to note about this new hit job...
As I wrote in November, Maher's smears rely on falsehoods and misleading data points washingtonmonthly.com/2022/01/17/new…
But a couple things to note about this new hit job...
https://twitter.com/billmaher/status/1487290045828501506
...Maher mocks Dems for welcoming Liz Cheney's criticism of Trump & the 1/6 riot
Just 3 months ago Maher delivered a heart-stopping monologue about Trump's "slow moving coup" where he praised Cheney for voting to impeach & lamented she was DOA in the GOP
Just 3 months ago Maher delivered a heart-stopping monologue about Trump's "slow moving coup" where he praised Cheney for voting to impeach & lamented she was DOA in the GOP
Maher says "San Francisco has basically legalized shoplifting" (using a Oct. WSJ headline calling SF a "Shoplifter’s Paradise" as a visual-not a news headline, an opinion headline)
He left out that in Dec. SF's mayor announced a crime crackdown sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2021/12/15/may…
He left out that in Dec. SF's mayor announced a crime crackdown sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2021/12/15/may…
But here's where Maher just gets cruel...
Maher criticizes the "Biden infrastructure bill" for a new regulation requiring automakers to install in new cars "an alert system that goes off when you leave a baby in the back seat, which is something done only by crackheads and people who sadly, yes, do it on purpose"...
...he then complains that "every one of us will end up bearing the cost" even though "crackheads and people who do it on purpose" will do it anyway...
...First, it's not the "Biden infrastructure bill." It's the BIPARTISAN infrastructure bill.
You want to critique the bill from a libertarian perspective? Fine. But it's not example of Dems going off the rails. If you're going to criticize Biden then criticize McConnell too...
You want to critique the bill from a libertarian perspective? Fine. But it's not example of Dems going off the rails. If you're going to criticize Biden then criticize McConnell too...
But more importantly, Maher makes a lazy libertarian critique with bigoted assumptions of who leaves babies in the car by mistake, and no evidence that the regulation won't save any babies' lives...
...Maher begins the monologue marveling that he's become a "hero" on Fox News, while insisting "it's not me who's changed, it's the left"...
...Maher has always been libertarian-ish, so in that respect he hasn't.
But embracing Fox News while using Fox-style falsehoods to make cruel arguments? That may be new.
But embracing Fox News while using Fox-style falsehoods to make cruel arguments? That may be new.
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