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84. The Seven Deadly Talk Show Sins of Bill Maher

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1. He talks about things he doesn’t understand

In a rare moment of a talk show guest actually standing up to a talk show host and calling them out on their B.S., Ben Affleck once actually called Maher out on the air for his hatred of Muslims as well as his various insensitive remarks about Islam. This is actually a part of a pattern I noticed with Maher where he will often make fun of anyone and everyone who is different from him in any way, whether it’s religious people or even people who are a different race, gender, class or age than him. And he has done it so freely that it has made him a lot of enemies. These days his main targets seem to be anyone who is young, “woke” and has pronouns in their bios. A group of people who he regularly calls “stupid” (I maintain that Gen Z is by far the most misunderstood and underestimated generation). Other examples of Maher’s tone deaf remarks include comparing the “Me Too” movement to McCarthyism, comparing “woke” culture to Chairman Mao fascism, regularly ridiculing Palestine sympathizers for being “terrorist sympathizers,” and constantly badmouthing Democrats for being too radical even as Republicans become cruel maniacs and spineless Trump sycophants. Bill Maher often thinks anyone who disagrees with him is an idiot, but he might want to put some wooden boards over the glass house he’s living in.

2. He downplays the pandemic
3. He normalizes dangerous people
4. He is selective with his outrage
5. He is a phony
6. He is predictable
7. He is egotistical