The Good and the Bad From Bill Maher Last Night...and His Take on the MN ICE Shooting Was Pretty Ugly
Season 24 of Real Time with
Bill Maher kicked off on HBO last night. There was the good, the bad,
and the very ugly, per usual, though the past few seasons have seen the
comedian increasingly mock and attack the illiberal tendencies on his
own side. Maher has praised Ron DeSantis for doing a better job on
COVID, reading the science rather than the science fiction, as Cuomo did
in New York, which got people killed, and credited him with not being
too far off on concerns about Disney hiring creeps.
What made things more entertaining was that Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA)
was a guest. He took Maher to school on immigration and the negotiations
about some compromise on that issue, which will never happen, because
Democrats want amnesty across the board:
Bill
Maher gets absolutely SCHOOLED by Senator John Kennedy on immigration
reform — Kennedy said it’s not only illegal immigration, it’s LEGAL
immigration that needs fixing.
And the number he dropped at the end caused Maher to do a double take.
MAHER: “Okay. So he [Trump] made his point. He is the tough guy.”
“It
gives him the opportunity now to be the guy who says, okay, I’m
actually going to do comprehensive immigration reform because this is
been…how long have you been in the Senate?”
KENNEDY: “10 years…in dog years that’s about 70.”
MAHER: “Why couldn’t Trump be the one to get this done? You talk to him, I bet you could put that bee in his bonnet.”
KENNEDY: “You know what the real answer is? The real answer is immigration reform. That’s the real answer.”
MAHER: “Well, we did that, we closed the border.”
KENNEDY: “I’m talking about not only for illegal immigration but also for legal immigration.”
“And
the truth is, Bill, if you are honest, and you are, we have let more
people into America legally every year than anyone in the world, because
the whole world wants to come here.”
“When’s the last time you heard of somebody trying to sneak into China? I mean, they want to come to America.”
“But we could do that better if my Democrat friends would sit down and talk with us.”
“But
when we sit down to talk, the first thing they want is amnesty,
amnesty, amnesty. And that dog is not going to hunt right now.”
MAHER:
“Couldn’t there be some sort of agreement on that? Because people are
saying…even people from your own party…is that yes, we wanted to get rid
of the criminals, we were all for that. And there are some…”
KENNEDY: “Yup, it’s about 47%.”
MAHER: “47%?!”
KENNEDY: “Yup, I saw numbers this morning. About 47%.”
MAHER: “Sounds bullshitty to me…but maybe.”
Bill Maher breaks his silence over the ICE killing of Renee Good and compares it to the infamous Tet Offensive execution.
“That woman. That was an execution in the street. I’m sorry, but it was. When I saw it, you know what I thought of?”
KENNEDY:
“President Biden, for the first time in this country’s history,
prosecuted a former president, a former opponent, who was his current
opponent.”
MAHER: “I understand it—”
KENNEDY: “He unleashed spirits he could not control.”
[Audience applauds]
MAHER: “Again, it was the first time we did that, it was also the first time that something PROMPTED us to do that!”
KENNEDY: “No! Wait a minute. No, wait a minute.”
“They allege…I’m not defending the president or his conduct, you can make your own judgement.”
MAHER: “Well…”
KENNEDY:
“But you can be worried about the president and not defend the conduct.
They allege that president Trump defrauded the American people. Okay?”
“Well,
what does that mean? How about when president Obama said if you like
your insurance you can keep your insurance? Is that fraud?”
MAHER:
“No, come on…it wasn’t the best thing he ever said and it turned out to
not be completely true. It’s well within the realm of political—”
KENNEDY:
“How about the people around President Biden who hid, studiously and
successfully, the fact that he had neurodegenerative disease? Should
they be prosecuted?”
Bill
Maher tries to prove he doesn’t have Trump Derangement Syndrome — and
Senator John Kennedy tells him he’s just “yelling at the wind.”
MAHER: “He came out and said the Nick Fuentes wing of the party, we’re not with you, we don’t want you.”
The
irony about Maher’s take on the Minneapolis ICE shooting is that his
take is a liberal media bubble position, something he said we should
move out of to close the show:
Newsfeeds are like high-priced fetish escorts. They understand that their whole job is to give it to you how you like it. pic.twitter.com/7yErb8ibnr
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