Tag Archives: Bill Maher

“So did you watch the speech on Tuesday night? The long, 100 minute speech? All right. So Trump said some things that were not exactly true. And when I say not exactly, I mean not at all. “And I just think we should talk about that by saying, ‘I don’t want to talk about that,’ because if you’re a conservative …

“I should sue Bill Maher for Defamation. This is beyond the pale and it’s a complete and blatant lie. I have never in my life seen such a coordinated attack by the mainstream Media, the White House and leftist personalities to target a private citizen and investigative journalist simply because I flew on a plane and I support Donald Trump. …

“He absolutely hates gay sex, especially when he’s having it. He wants to actually criminalize gay sex because it makes it hotter. Oh, this is a beaut, this guy. He has written in favor of reinstituting sodomy laws. Sodomy laws? That’s laws against anal and oral. I’ve never understood this about the Republicans. If you’re so against abortion, why would …

“I was afraid for my own well-being. I thought I could wind up in Guantanamo Bay. I think I still could. He was ranting about me all last week again. He’s obsessed sometimes. I don’t know. “He went on a tear for about eight months when he was president, every time he’d have a rally. I have a list three …

Mediaite has the transcript: It was a big week politically, the State of the Union address. Don’t worry. You don’t have to say you saw it. I didn’t either. It’s fucking ridiculous, this thing. The state of our union is uncivil. That’s what it is. I saw the clips. Oh, my God. Republicans – Biden’s trying to make a speech …

Mediaite reports: CNN will be reaping another benefit of the Warner Bros. Discovery merger next month, when Overtime, the post-show segment from Bill Maher’s HBO program, Real Time With Bill Maher, begins airing on Friday nights. The network made the announcement in a press release Monday, describing it as one of “several other recent partnership between HBO and CNN.” The …

Deadline reports: Kellyanne Conway denounced the storming of the Capitol and said she had insisted to President Trump for months that he’d lost the election, but otherwise found little common ground with Bill Maher over the legacy of the last four years. “How do you look back now … anything go wrong?” the host of HBO’s Real Time With Bill …

Roll Call reports: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) looked to assure nervous Democrats that there are “a number of plans” to deal with a scenario in which President Trump loses the November election but refuses to leave office. Sanders, speaking to TV host Bill Maher Friday night, said it was of tantamount importance that liberals elect Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden …

The Hill reports: Academy Award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore said Friday night that there’s no way President Trump can win reelection unless he “cheats.” Moore appeared on “Real Time With Bill Maher” and warned that Trump may be planning ways to boost his chances against former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee, in November. “The only way they are …

The Hill reports: HBO’s Bill Maher ripped the news media on Friday night and urged journalists to stop offering up what he described as “panic porn” when reporting on the coronavirus outbreak, cautioning the practice could help get President Trump “New rule, now that we’re starting to see some hope in all this: Don’t hope-shame me,” the liberal “Real Time” …

Mediaite reports: Comic and political pundit Bill Maher asked an almost unimaginable question about the prospect of President Donald Trump refusing to leave office if he’s defeated in November: “What’s the plan?” On Friday night’s edition of HBO’s Real Time, Maher concluded his “New Rules” segment by once again raising the alarm about the possibility — or probability, as Maher …

“Yesterday David Koch, of the zillionaire Koch brothers, died of prostate cancer. I guess I’m going to have to re-evaluate my low opinion of prostate cancer. He was 79, but his family says they wish he could live longer, but at least he lived long enough to see the Amazon catch fire. “Condolences poured in from all the politicians he …

The Hill reports: Comedian Bill Maher on Friday continued his calls for another economic recession, claiming it would tank President Trump’s shot at reelection in 2020 and be “very worth” ending his policies. Speaking with a panel including political consultant Rick Wilson and journalists Betsy Woodruff and Carl Hulse, Maher dismissed criticism from people who “get mad” at rooting for …

Deadline Hollywood reports: Fran Lebowitz said she regrets that “everyone misinterpreted” her comment on Bill Maher’s Real Time Friday night, when she suggested the U.S. turn President Donald Trump “over to the Saudis, his buddies – the same Saudis who got rid of that reporter.” “Maybe they could do the same for him,” she told Maher, who had asked if …

“Bill Barr is so far up Trump’s ass he bumped into Hannity. So Barr went before the Senate this week, on Wednesday, and the Democrats looked all so happy after they gave him a good grilling. But I think they missed the big picture. Trump is still President and the big gotcha was they got Barr to commit perjury, which …

“I’m not there yet on impeachment. I may get there, he may get me there. But here’s the awful dilemma that we face: if we don’t impeach him, that sends a message that this kind of conduct, this obstruction of justice, this kind of willing use of the help of a foreign adversary, all the lies and cover up, that …

The Hill reports: HBO host Bill Maher confronted CPAC head Matt Schlapp on Friday about Fox News’s coverage of President Trump, saying the network is “basically running our government.” “This is unprecedented, the fact that Sean Hannity does a show every night praising Trump, and then after the show Sean Hannity and Trump talk,” Maher said. “Now, if Obama was …

Last night on his HBO show Bill Maher read Trump’s tweet below and then said this: “That sounds like he’s not condemning the bomber, it sounds to me like he’s partnering with him. What he is asking for the media to do is not criticize him. It all comes from this one trait of narcissism. This is a disease that …

Politico reports: Former Trump White House strategist Steve Bannon is predicting that the 2020 presidential race could become a three-way contest. Bannon said on “Real Time with Bill Maher” on Friday night that the race could involve a three-way battle between President Trump, a left-leaning senator such as Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) and a centrist candidate such as former New York …

The Huffington Post reports: Former Secretary of State John Kerry delivered a blistering assessment of President Donald Trump’s character on Friday’s broadcast of Real Time with Bill Maher. “He is the first president that I know of who spends more time reading his Twitter ‘likes’ than his briefing books or the constitution of the United States,” Kerry told Maher. “Unfortunately, …