We all know what happens to heretics. His blasphemy has gone too far this time.

For conservatives and moderates in this nation, our politics are defined by the Constitution, but for the leftists, their politics is their religion, and if you defy church doctrine, they're gonna barbecue you.

Bill Maher's "Smug Face"

Good luck to ya, Bill. Conservatives won't have you and now you're losing the left. Yeah, I know you have mountains of money, but that doesn't mean you can't be truly phucked. You feed off of attention, public acceptance and validation of your opinions. In your position, if you lose the public it doesn't matter how much money you have. Just ask Bill Cosby.

Toodles!

They always eat their own.

*I heard he could end up on CNN. Given the latest, I wouldn't bet on it.

*Mentioned in the article, my bad.

Every so often he will say something that rubs me the wrong way (like recently he said Alec Baldwin should not be charged because it was an accident, bit it was clear he had little clue on what really happened), but even when the rest of the left was piling on their Trump bashing, he was taking a middle road/right leaning stance. It took me a bit to start watching him again since I do remember him being a far left demagogue.

Leftist and "Young Turks" host Cenk Uygur claimed that Maher was a culture warrior for the political right.

"Bill Maher is actually perfect for CNN to be honest. False equivalencies, propping up right-wing culture war talking points, fighting for the status quo and that smug face. [Jake] Tapper might get jealous because he might be outsmugged."



Cenk Uygur has a smug face. I remember the video of him the night Trump was elected in 2016.

There is a small niche in Bill Maher's brain that common sense and rational thought exists .... but the rest of it is just pure hate and asshole-ness.

I'm of the "I'll take wins where I can find 'em" school school of thought.

I disagree with much of what Maher says, but, find myself in agreement with much of his other positions. Furthermore: Unlike the vast majority of leftists (and I don't even know as Maher even qualifies as a "leftist"): He can be funny even when he's poking fun at a principle to which I subscribe.

I place him in about the same category as I do Piers Morgan.

Maher is simply moving on to the next big deal he can secure. For every correct or, interesting position, he spits-out 2-3 more than are wrong and not very well considered. He's a smart guy, he refuses to be a yes-man/shill like Kimmel, Colbert, and Corden. He works in a vapid, superficial world, he knows how the entertainment business works

I think he will survive it. Leftists dislike him because he won't go all in on their lunacy. He is still a lib but a fairly rational one, closer to the middle. I still don't think he has a clue about guns. I would love to take him shooting just once. But, for the most part, I don't hate him.

It is important that we teach our children and anyone we can to think for themselves and to arrive at educated opinions. We must not just listen to these media types. If you have been following Steven Crowder, he has shown that most personalities on the right are controlled opposition. So, it is very important that we use our minds.

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Originally posted by dave7378:
I think he will survive it. Leftists dislike him because he won't go all in on their lunacy. He is still a lib but a fairly rational one, closer to the middle. I still don't think he has a clue about guns. I would love to take him shooting just once. But, for the most part, I don't hate him.

He can be a smug jackass, but he's not stupid. I feel like if you can take it, and dish it out, he'd be a fun guy to hang out with. He's willing to talk to people who are totally the opposite of him, and he pushes back on the lunacy from people he agrees with, that's a rare thing for a lefty.

Complaining that he thinks that cancer culture has gone too far and then demanding he be cancelled.

The irony. It drips like molasses.

Despite his past, if he can change the minds of even a few leftists, I'm all for it. As we know, dems have drifted far to the left and I believe he sees the reality of that.

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Originally posted by 6guns:
Despite his past, if he can change the minds of even a few leftists, I'm all for it.

If a person's mind can be changed, they are not a leftist.

What? You mean that being smug and artificially controlling the conversations you're in isn't enough?

What's Anderson Cooper supposed to do?

The left's fundamental problem with understanding Maher is that they don't realize that he's their canary in a coal mine - he's sometimes among the first liberals to question orthodoxy when liberal orthodoxy starts becoming obnoxious even to the liberal faithful themselves.

OTOH he's consistently an orthodox liberal often enough that no one else feels obliged to defend him when his mouth catches him some flack.

I get your point, para. But I'm still hopeful he can bring some people to our side.

The sad part is how far the left is going now. I thought Maher was pretty out there but now he seems like a conservative comparatively.

I don't think Maher is going to turn this around CNN's Friday Night viewership woes. I took a look at CNN friday night viewership for Jan '23. Half the time they don't even crack the top 50, and get slaughtered in the vaunted 18-49 demographic. I find it hilarious that low brow crap like Love After Lockup beats CNN half of the Friday nights in January.

He occasionally makes a good point so if some sad sack that watches CNN on Friday night sees it then it's good.

You won't get your message out to the 18-49 demographic on TV, you need Tiktok and other social media outlets to reach them, on phones all the time looking at videos.

The occasional glance at Mass Media may happen, most likely because they clicked a link somewhere to a CNN video...

They are mind controlled by technology, slaves to Silicon Valley.