Bill Maher calls out the people who don’t have a voice and the people who do

Bill Maher was upset that certain messages on his Friday got attention and others didn’t Real time Show on HBO.

He began with an excellent example of this in an interview with Alexandra Pelosi (daughter of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi), the director and producer of the HBO original documentary The rebel next door, which debuted on October 15.

The film talks to several people who stormed the Capitol on January 6 about what brought them to Washington DC on that fateful day and whether their views have changed since then.

Maher noted that the people in the film were “remarkably pleasant and likeable.”

“This is the forgotten man,” Pelosi said. “They fell short of this great American dream, they feel abandoned.”

Maher tried to get Pelosi — who blamed social media for dividing political views — to say what Democrats are doing so wrong to create this sense of exclusion when they’re trying to protect the working class to help.

Pelosi dodged, but Maher didn’t dismiss her, remarking, “You made a whole movie about it.”

Ultimately, Pelosi allowed the social media bubble to brainwash people into “programming hate on both sides.”

Maher finally showed which side he was on by quickly saying goodbye to her: “Greetings to your mother.”

On the panel, Maher spoke with Paul Begala, a Democratic strategist and political contributor at CNN New York Times Columnist Bret Stephens.

They attacked those whose views on the current situation in the Middle East did not coincide with theirs.

Begala summed it up: “There are not two sides here.”

The most sensitive issue raised was which side fired the rocket that hit Al-Alhi Hospital in Gaza. Maher brought one with him New York Times Headline that blamed Israel and ended with the double entendre: “Palestinians say.”

Stephens, former editor of the Jerusalem Post, noted that journalists should not take Palestinians’ statements at face value since this is an authoritarian society. “Everything that comes out has to be double and triple checked,” he said. “This is Hamas. It is about the fundamental difference. In an open democratic society (like Israel) journalists are not afraid of getting hurt. You have to approach it with skepticism and Israel has to be believed.”

Begala also brought up social media, noting: “Too many people are prisoners of their social media algorithm.” Stephens agreed, noting that school teaches children one value: tolerance. This creates a problem in situations that have two sides. “The tolerance brigade could not bring itself to admit things without ambiguity.”

Stephens called for the destruction of Hamas to the fifth degree, while Maher noted that such extreme actions are “a trap that leads us to overreact.” Maher noted that the scale of retaliation would escalate the conflict and potentially open up other fronts that could overwhelm Israel.

Maher’s editorial, “New Rules,” advised students “not to go to college,” especially the Ivy Leagues. “As recent events have shown, it only makes you stupid,” he noted, that higher education has become “a cauldron of bad ideas.” Both comments referred to the pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses.

Even though the students don’t know history, Maher says, “That doesn’t stop them from having an opinion.”

College, Maher claimed, “is day care with a meal plan.” He noted that if “ignorance is a disease, Harvard is the wet market of Wuhan.”

Maher mentioned some famous Harvard graduates and said they all had a common face, “and some of them, I think, are good people.”

Finally, he told the older people in his audience that “today’s college is not the college you remember,” and told the students, “It doesn’t take four years to hate America if you hate it for five minutes. don’t.” watch the film.” Sell ​​Sunset.“