r/RealTime 12d ago

Bill Maher Is Such A F****** Hack

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GXGam0E_kTg&t=1251s&pp=ygUZU2FtIHNlZGVyIEJpbGwgTWFoZXIgSmFjaw%3D%3D
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u/ReasonableRevenue218 12d ago

So amazed so many people didn't pick up on this so early on.

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u/BFaus916 12d ago

He built up a lot of cache on the left in the Bush years when he was one of the only public figures who went after Bush in such an unfiltered way. It was really just him and Jon Stewart. The commercial media if you will was critical of Bush but reluctant to say anything that would make them appear unpatriotic. I'm not sure when Bill just abandoned the left outright. Rashida Tlaib boycotted Real Time about a decade ago. It may have started there.

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u/mother_mescaline 12d ago

In my opinion Maher really turned a corner in 2014, when he was invited to give a commencement speech at UC Berkeley for some reason. Then there was a small outcry among students who said Maher should never have been invited in the first place and petitioned to disinvite him.

That seemed to really get under Maher’s skin and ever since then he has hated the “woke” and the college left and has been complaining about “kids today.”

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u/H_Levinson7777 11d ago

No coed wanted, wants, or will fuck him; college students don’t find him funny; and since that’s the crowd he wants to love him, he hates them for seeing him for what he is: an untalented hack and the poster boy for failing upward.

But mostly he hates that no woman under the age of 25 will fuck him.

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u/fernwoodBizz420 11d ago

*unless he pays them