Bill Maher: ‘I want to defend Laura Ingraham’

By Diana Stancy Correll

Published April 7, 2018 3:58am ET

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HBO late-night host Bill Maher came to the defense of Fox News host Laura Ingraham, after advertisers from her program started to pull their support last week after she mocked a survivor from the Parkland, Fla., shooting.

“I want to defend Laura Ingraham. I know that sounds ridiculous” Maher said on “Real Time with Bill Maher” on Friday, adding later that he thought she was a “deliberately terrible person.”

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