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SocialDemocrat61

(5,757 posts) Sat Sep 20, 2025, 07:24 AM Sep 20

Bill Maher Joins MAGA in Calling Kimmel 'Wrong' on Charlie Kirk

Bill Maher Joins MAGA in Calling Kimmel ‘Wrong’ on Charlie Kirk
The “Real Time” host offered words of support for “friend” Jimmy Kimmel—even if he disagrees with him.
Jack Revell

Bill Maher came out swinging against the “hypocritical” cancellation of Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Friday’s episode of Real Time With Bill Maher—while also saying his fellow late-night host was wrong for what he said about Charlie Kirk.
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“I don’t think what he said was exactly right. I don’t,” said Maher. “We don’t agree on that,” Maher said during his opening monologue, adding, “He shouldn’t lose his job for it.”

Maher appeared to take issue with Kimmel’s pushback against right-wing rhetoric suggesting that Kirk’s suspected killer, Tyler Robinson, was a Democrat.

“Jimmy’s wrong, I think, to put [Robinson] in one team. But, you know, look at what this guy is doing,” Maher said. “I mean, Jimmy has every right to be wrong, but look at this guy.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/bill-maher-joins-maga-in-calling-jimmy-kimmel-wrong-on-charlie-kirk/

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Bill Maher Joins MAGA in Calling Kimmel 'Wrong' on Charlie Kirk (Original Post) SocialDemocrat61 Sep 20 OP

Fuck that washed up old dirtbag. Meadowoak Sep 20 #1

This FalloutShelter Sep 20 #6

+1 dalton99a Sep 20 #13

How are we not suprised samplegirl Sep 20 #2

Maher is playing both sides of the road. The Wizard Sep 20 #3

The only things you find in the middle of the road are yellow stripes HAB911 Sep 20 #8

he may have a new boss at HBO...a right-leaning one NCDem47 Sep 20 #10

It might be a fight xmas74 Sep 20 #11

I think it's Ellison's son, bad enough either way fujiyamasan Sep 20 #19

So Bill, The Wizard Sep 20 #4

Not the worst thing Maher has said. He doesn't mucifer Sep 20 #5

True. Much worse SocialDemocrat61 Sep 20 #7

But he's wrong... lame54 Sep 20 #12

Shocked. Shocked, I tell you. Scrivener7 Sep 20 #9

The other talk show hosts are cowards Buckeyeblue Sep 20 #14

Really??? SocialDemocrat61 Sep 20 #15

Bill's red pill transformation is more or less complete. BannonsLiver Sep 20 #16

Who made Maher the political expert? I predict that as the stun factor of Kirk's allegorical oracle Sep 20 #17

He said he was wrong to put a f***ed kid on any team. Right or left. applegrove Sep 20 #18

Fuck Bill Maher Prairie Gates Sep 20 #20

He's always been an egotistical, misogynistic, assh*le. littlemissmartypants Sep 20 #21

Bill Maher can jump down a cancellation well. ananda Sep 20 #22

Meadowoak

(6,587 posts)

1. Fuck that washed up old dirtbag.

Reply to SocialDemocrat61 (Original post)

Sat Sep 20, 2025, 07:34 AM

Sep 20

FalloutShelter

(13,830 posts)

6. This

Reply to Meadowoak (Reply #1)

Sat Sep 20, 2025, 08:09 AM

Sep 20

dalton99a

(90,414 posts)

13. +1

Reply to Meadowoak (Reply #1)

Sat Sep 20, 2025, 10:51 AM

Sep 20

samplegirl

(13,403 posts)

2. How are we not suprised

Reply to SocialDemocrat61 (Original post)

Sat Sep 20, 2025, 07:35 AM

Sep 20

from his vile options more times than not.

The Wizard

(13,408 posts)

3. Maher is playing both sides of the road.

Reply to SocialDemocrat61 (Original post)

Sat Sep 20, 2025, 07:56 AM

Sep 20

The only things you find in the middle of the road are yellow stripes and dead armadillos.
Those who stand for nothing will fall for anything.

HAB911

(9,852 posts)

8. The only things you find in the middle of the road are yellow stripes

Reply to The Wizard (Reply #3)

Sat Sep 20, 2025, 08:23 AM

Sep 20

I hope you don't mind if I use that line for the rest of my life

NCDem47

(3,070 posts)

10. he may have a new boss at HBO...a right-leaning one

Reply to The Wizard (Reply #3)

Sat Sep 20, 2025, 09:03 AM

Sep 20

Larry Ellison is preparing to buy Warner Bros...parent to HBO. This, along with Maher's meeting with Trump, is all the evidence we need to know where Maher is headed to.

P.S. Ellison just bought Parmount and NOW wants Warner Bros?!?! Just Ugh. Interesting times we live in.

xmas74

(29,952 posts)

11. It might be a fight

Reply to NCDem47 (Reply #10)

Sat Sep 20, 2025, 09:31 AM

Sep 20

Supposedly Netflix is interested in Warner Brothers.

fujiyamasan

(723 posts)

19. I think it's Ellison's son, bad enough either way

Reply to NCDem47 (Reply #10)

Sat Sep 20, 2025, 05:39 PM

Sep 20

The Wizard

(13,408 posts)

4. So Bill,

Reply to SocialDemocrat61 (Original post)

Sat Sep 20, 2025, 07:58 AM

Sep 20

What did Jimmy Kimmel say that offended you? I'll wait.

mucifer

(25,338 posts)

5. Not the worst thing Maher has said. He doesn't

Reply to SocialDemocrat61 (Original post)

Sat Sep 20, 2025, 08:09 AM

Sep 20

have to agree with Kimmel. He didn’t think Kimmel should get fired.

Maher has said far worse things I am not a fan

SocialDemocrat61

(5,757 posts)

7. True. Much worse

Reply to mucifer (Reply #5)

Sat Sep 20, 2025, 08:23 AM

Sep 20

But he's going over to the dark side more and more. From just about 2 weeks ago:

Bill Maher Hits Colbert, Stewart, Kimmel for Parroting MSNBC
The ultra-opinionated late-night host misses the good ol’ days when Letterman, Leno, and Carson “never told you their politics.”
Eboni Boykin-Patterson

Bill Maher has some of the strongest political opinions on late-night television—but he’s sick of hearing everyone else’s.

On the latest episode of his podcast Club Random, Maher told his guest, The Sopranos star Drea de Matteo, that Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, John Oliver, and Jimmy Kimmel “very predictably” parrot “whatever MSNBC was saying” on their shows, as he praised the good ol’ days when “Letterman, Leno, you know, Carson…they never told you their politics.”

Maher argued that “part of our problem is that everybody makes their decisions based on the politics of the art and not the art itself.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/bill-maher-joins-maga-in-calling-jimmy-kimmel-wrong-on-charlie-kirk/

lame54

(38,469 posts)

12. But he's wrong...

Reply to mucifer (Reply #5)

Sat Sep 20, 2025, 10:40 AM

Sep 20

Kimmel's statement was correct

Scrivener7

(57,304 posts)

9. Shocked. Shocked, I tell you.

Reply to SocialDemocrat61 (Original post)

Sat Sep 20, 2025, 08:24 AM

Sep 20

Buckeyeblue

(6,034 posts)

14. The other talk show hosts are cowards

Reply to SocialDemocrat61 (Original post)

Sat Sep 20, 2025, 01:00 PM

Sep 20

Their response has been overwhelmingly submissive. That's because they are afraid to lose their millions in salary.

David Letterman has been the only one to speak out. He's retired.

It's sad.

SocialDemocrat61

(5,757 posts)

15. Really???

Reply to Buckeyeblue (Reply #14)

Sat Sep 20, 2025, 01:12 PM

Sep 20

BannonsLiver

(19,680 posts)

16. Bill's red pill transformation is more or less complete.

Reply to SocialDemocrat61 (Original post)

Sat Sep 20, 2025, 01:14 PM

Sep 20

Just some touch up work left to do but he’s 95 percent there.

allegorical oracle

(5,750 posts)

17. Who made Maher the political expert? I predict that as the stun factor of Kirk's

Reply to SocialDemocrat61 (Original post)

Sat Sep 20, 2025, 01:18 PM

Sep 20

death passes, his inhumane and callous quotes will increasingly emerge. It shouldn't affect the shooter, however, because his violent response was totally improper and can't be condoned.