Liberal HBO host Bill Maher isn’t exactly a stranger to controversy. With his latest comments on Friday night’s Real Time With Bill Maher questioning Tara Reade’s assault allegation against Joe Biden, Maher has sparked backlash once again.
In his monologue on the subject, Maher makes some arguments that unfairly discount Reade’s charge, like citing her political beliefs, and he overlooks the ample corroboration now bolstering her account. But he’s well within his rights to question why she waited so long and has changed her story, and raises very valid points about the Democratic Party’s incoherent position on these issues.
The “liberal media” and Liberal Party is doing exactly what the
Republicans want for us to go down the rabbit hole of Joe Biden sex monster. #BelieveWomen should always have been #TakeAccusationsSeriously pic.twitter.com/E0LAPMYgWr— Bill Maher (@billmaher) May 9, 2020
“Credibility certainly is a problem for the party on this issue,” Maher said. “Mostly because they ‘woke’ themselves into a corner when they adopted ‘believe women’ as their slogan when it should always have been ‘take accusations seriously.’”
“That was never tenable, because believing everything doesn’t make you noble,” Maher continued. “It makes you gullible and leaves us with the world where Republicans don’t care about this stuff. So it’s just a unilateral weapon that is used only against Democrats.”
You can watch the full segment below.
I don’t agree with everything Maher says here, and you certainly don’t have to. But the liberal host shouldn’t be chased out of polite society for this kind of commentary.
The Daily Beast slammed Maher’s comments and accused him of being sympathetic to fascists, and he faced a similar panning across other left-wing media. Reade’s lawyer accused him of “recycling old rape myths.” Worse, the woke Twitterati came for Maher in full force:
If Bill Maher had said what he said about Tara Reade about anyone else, every single progressive, feminist, and/ or survivor organization would have released a statement and organized a campaign demanding an apology or the cancelation of his show.
— Katie Halper (@kthalps) May 9, 2020
Dear Bill Maher,
Your entire segment is riddled with victim blaming and rape mythologizing. I don’t know anyone who takes your hate filed opinions seriously but you do have a big platform so learn to use it responsibly or kindly shut tf up about survivors.https://t.co/4Cr14t2BqL— Sarah Ann Masse loves moms ? (@SarahAnnMasse) May 9, 2020
Bill Maher Rips Democrats for Caring About Tara Reade Accusations: ‘Exactly What Republicans Want’ REASON 799 WHY BILL MAHER IS A PIECE OF SHIT https://t.co/DNDSSORA3S
— Rodney Latstetter ? (@proviewsusa) May 9, 2020
Sure sign that things are returning to normal: Bill Maher back to being an asshole https://t.co/vA4hJtuRzl via @mediaite
— Gerry Callahan (@GerryCallahan) May 9, 2020
And that’s how you know some of what Maher said must have hit home.
