HBO “Real Time” host Bill Maher finally said what has been on everyone else’s mind: It is time for CNN to stop looking for the plane.
Maher delivered a scathing monologue about the network’s constant plane coverage during the New Rules segment of his HBO show Friday night.
“You know how sometimes you lose something and you look all over the house for it and you can’t find it anywhere and eventually you just give up and forget about it?” Maher quipped. “We should do that with Malaysia flight 370.”
CNN has devoted much of its air time to covering the plane, which went missing in March, and has become the butt of many jokes for its consistent devotion to the search to find Malaysia flight 370.
“Watching CNN continue to breathe life into this thing is like watching a doctor on ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ pounding on a pateint’s chest until another doctor has to pull him off and say, ‘Derek it’s over!’ That’s what I want to say to Wolf Blitzer. Wolf, it’s over!” Maher said. “Time to move on! There will be other ocean disasters. We’ll always have Atlantis.”
The HBO host went on to remind viewers that air travel is actually incredibly safe and pointed to other activities that could place people in danger.
“You know what’s riskier?” Maher asked. “Everything. Driving. Walking. Taking a shower. Living in Chicago. Hunting with Dick Cheney. Dating Chris Brown.”
Maher ended his rant with a bit of reassurance, as he told viewers — and CNN — that sometimes it’s “OK to quit looking.”
h/t Mediaite
