Who Is Bill Maher?

My VIP for this week is Bill Maher, the liberal talk show host. On Friday’s episode of “Real Time with Bill Maher,” he waded into the latest hot-button topics of the 2024 presidential election: (1) President Joe Biden calling former President Donald Trump’s supporters “garbage,” (2) comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s joke about Puerto Rico being a floating pile of garbage, and

(3) the media’s deception about Trump’s comment about Liz Cheney being a war hawk.

According to Paul Sacca at The Blaze, Maher said the following about Trump’s statement about Cheney: “Just don’t lie to me. I don’t like Donald Trump. Don’t lie to me and tell me he wants her in front of a firing squad.” He also defended Hinchcliffe: “I’m a comic; I’m a free speech [supporter]…. But this guy’s an insult comic.” Like most people, Maher did not understand why Hinchcliffe was at the event. 

Maher slammed President Biden for calling Trump supporters “garbage” and compared him to New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge who dropped an easy fly ball in the World Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers.

“I think it’s a bigger gaffe than people think,” Maher said. “It’s so funny, Joe Biden, his whole career, he was like Mr. Gaffe, and then here at the very end – he’s like Aaron Judge in Game 6. He just ____ muffed the fly ball and at the end of the thing and blew the whole [game].”

Maher declared Biden’s insult to be far worse than Hillary Clinton’s disastrous 2016 smear of Trump supporters as “deplorables.”

“Because I feel like it epitomizes everything that the Trump people hate about the Democrats. They look down at us. It’s like ‘deplorables’ times ten,” Maher noted….

“I woke up today to the headline that Trump had called for a firing squad for Liz Cheney,” Maher stated. “And this is what I really don’t like about the media – no, he didn’t. You don’t have to move me to not like Donald Trump more than I already [don’t].”

Maher continued, “He’s criticizing her for being a war hawk. I mean, she is Dick Cheney’s daughter.”

Maher read Trump’s actual quote, “She’s a radical war hawk. Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, OK? Let’s see how she feels about it. You know, they’re all war hawks when they’re sitting in Washington in the nice buildings saying, ‘Oh gee, well, let’s send 10,000 troops right into the mouth of the enemy.’” …

Maher noted, “Just to be clear, this is exactly what hippies always said. This is exactly what peaceniks always said…. It’s very easy to sit in your building and send young men to die.”

He declared, “Just don’t lie to me. I don’t like Donald Trump. Don’t lie to me and tell me he wants her in front of a firing squad. He was saying something that, by the way, if it came out of the mouth, some of it, not the stupid part, again, sounds like what hippies used to say about not sending people to [war].”

Maher is not the only liberal calling out the media and the Kamala Harris campaign for saying that Trump was calling for Cheney to be shot. Some point out that Cheney was given a weapon to defend herself, something that is not usually done in a firing squad. Even Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) called the media’s deception “ridiculous, absurd and counterproductive.” Maher did not say anything about Kamala Harris and Liz Cheney pushing the same deception.