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On 18 Apr 2025, Michael A Terrell <
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On 4/18/2025 9:48 AM, Skeeter-Shit "Lamey" Jack-Off Shit-4-Braincell, convicted child molester and another fucking do-nothing, posted
another content-free batch of lies:
In article <JFuMP.371440$D41.238260@fx45.iad>, lb@cap.con
says...
"Send in the clown: Bill Maher turns pro-Trump"
by Hugh Fink, opinion contributor
04/18/25 10:30 AM ET
There?s a maxim that the difference between a comedian and a comic
is that a comedian says funny things, and a comic says things funny.
Then there are clowns ? like Bill Maher. He traded his red nose for
a big brown one the second he eagerly walked into President Trump?s
gaudy White Fun House of deception.
Maher, the comic who once fancied himself a fearless political
truth-teller, is now wobbling under the weight of his own ego. His
recent televised monologue ? an extended love letter to his dinner
with Trump ? was less a political reflection than a highlight reel
of self-flattery and unearned gravitas.
Maher bragged that he had dinner with Trump ? ?a dinner that was set
up by my friend Kid Rock.? Yes, when your access to the leader of
the free world is coordinated by a rap-rock-country novelty act ? a
man who has assaulted a strip-club DJ, waved Confederate flags and
hurled homophobic slurs at his own fans ? you might want to
reevaluate your choices. But Maher treated it like an RSVP to the
Met Gala.
?I?m not the leader of anything,? Maher proclaimed, ?except maybe a
contingent of centrist-minded people who think there?s got to be a
better way of running this country than hating each other every
minute.?
In his own narcissistic head, Maher envisions himself as the messiah
of moderates. Seriously? There are real centrist leaders out there ?
legislators, governors, community organizers ? people who have
actually done something for policy improvements.
Maher assured his audience, ?What I?m gonna do is report exactly
what happened,? as though he were offering some kind of
groundbreaking journalism. Right. Because when we think of
trustworthy, hard-hitting reporting, we immediately picture ? Bill
Maher ? the guy who pauses his own punchlines to flirt with Megyn
Kelly.
Maher?s White House visit wasn?t reporting. It was the equivalent of
watching TMZ try to cover the Geneva Convention.
He even tried to humanize Trump by declaring, ?I?ve never seen him
laugh in public. But he does, including at himself. And it?s not
fake. Believe me, as a comedian of 40 years, I know a fake laugh
when I hear it.?
Although Maher has never held elected office, never written
legislation, never studied foreign policy or constitutional law, he
is indeed an expert in fake laughter. If you?ve ever heard the
sweetened, over-enthusiastic studio audience guffaws that accompany
his weekly monologues, it?s undeniable that nobody is more familiar
with fake laughs.
Maher also made sure to point out that he corrected Trump the night
before, when the president tweeted that Maher was critical of ?all
things Trump.?
?Not true,? Maher said. ?Check the tapes. Moving Israel?s embassy to
Jerusalem? Loved it.? Though Maher conveniently forgot to mention
the Palestinian children getting bombed in the process. Trump didn?t
just invite Maher in ? he handed him a gold-plated mic and watched
him croon the MAGA anthem.
?I never felt I had to walk on eggshells,? Maher said, adding that,
?I voted for Clinton and Obama but I would never feel comfortable
talking to them the way I was able to talk with Donald Trump.?
Of course he didn?t. Obama and Clinton are highly educated, deeply
experienced and fluent in more than crowd work. What would Maher
possibly talk about? ?Hey Barack, loved your work on health care
reform ? now here?s what I think about smoking weed and cancel
culture.?
Maher?s big ?gotcha? moment came when he told Trump, ?You?re scaring
people. Do you really want to be scaring your own citizens so much??
The kicker? ?And what did he say to that? Honestly, I don?t
remember.?
Ah yes, the big, dramatic moment ? the grand gesture where the brave
truth-teller confronts the tyrant ? and he forgets? This isn?t
journalism, it?s fan fiction.
In the end, Maher wasn?t just played by Trump ? he allowed himself
to get strung up like a marionette, tossing out softball
observations in exchange for the illusion of relevance. Maybe he
wanted to be the courageous centrist who tames the beast. Instead,
he was the rubber-nosed fool dancing for a Big Mac at the end of
Trump?s table.
If there?s one thing more disturbing than Trump?s delusions of
grandeur, it?s seeing Maher nodding along, hoping for a laugh or two
? while the rest of us are stuck watching Trump crash his circus
tent down on democracy.
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5254047-send-in-the-clown-bill-m
aher-turns-pro-trump/
Maher just nuked his career.
Nope.
Yep. Maher just threw himself into the sewer.
Your "sewered" opinion, which doesn't matter. The MAGA public
says otherwise.
CNN’s encore presentation of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher had a surge
in total viewers and the Adults 25-54 demo as viewers tuned in to watch
Maher talk about his recent White House visit with President Donald Trump.
Real Time was the network’s most-watched show and had better total viewer numbers than CNN’s weekday primetime programming. In the demo, Real Time
had 5,000 fewer viewers than timeslot winner Fox News’ Life, Liberty &
Levin at 8 p.m. ET.
25-54 Demographic (Live+SD x 1,000)
Total Day: FNC: 123 | CNN: 56 | MSNBC: 38
Prime: FNC: 143 | CNN: 74 | MSNBC: 29
https://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/saturday-april-12-evening-cable-news- ratings-cnn-gets-real-boost-from-bill-maher/
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