Bill Maher is commonly confronted with the accusation that he’s switched from an ultra-liberal to a extra conservative stance. He could have added gasoline to that argument with the subect of Friday’s Real Time, which targeted on what he known as “Biden’s Brain.” It’s a subject that broke out this week from hushed backrooms to the mainstream, due to a Dept. of Justice report and the President’s personal makes an attempt to refute it.
Maher began his jabs at Biden within the monologue. Talking concerning the President’s decline of a Super Bowl interview, Biden famous, “It’s not like they were asking him to appear on Dancing With The Stars.”
He then ran down a couple of of Biden’s confusions, together with mixing up politicians. He additionally stated Biden blew his press convention to struggle again in opposition to the DoJ report when he walked within the room and requested, “Why did I come in here again?”
This week’s panel dialogue additional heated issues up. Emmy-winning sportscaster Bob Costas and Caitlin Flanagan, the latter a workers author at The Atlantic and writer of the brand new assortment of essays, “On Thinking for Yourself: Instinct, Education, Dissension,” additionally held the presidential ft to the hearth.
Maher began issues off by repeating his competition that BIden is Ruth Bader Biden, a politician who “stayed too long at the fair.”
Costas leaped into that with “the truth that nobody wants to say out loud,” saying that Biden ought to have run as a one-term president, and that “the only reason he won is he’s not Trump.” He added, “If he doesn’t understand that, he has to be shown the door.”
Costas stated that if Trump is a risk to democracy, “so, too, are the Democrats” if they’ve Biden as their champion. “If Trump is a monster, you’re going to send this guy out to slay the dragon?” Costas stated.
The speak turned to attainable Biden replacements, with Gavin Newsom distinguished. Flanagan introduced up the deterioration in Oakland, the place hospital workers have been warned to not go away on lunch breaks due to the hazard.
“That’s on (Newsom). I can’t imagine him having the gall to run when he’s run this state into the ground.” She added, “He looks very shiny, but he is not willing to do the hard things to make this state better.”
Maher was caught for a rebuttal. “I am hoping running nationally will bring him more to the center,” he stated.
Earlier, Maher interviewed Coleman Hughes, host of the “Conversations With Coleman” podcast, contributor to The Free Press, and writer of the brand new ebook, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America.
Coleman claimed that social media and smartphones gave an unrepresentative image of race relations in America.
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