James Carville blasts ‘supremely naive’ Bill Maher over White House dinner with Trump
The Democratic strategist accused Maher of lending ‘legitimacy and credence’ to Trump’s behavior
Political strategist James Carville has branded Bill Maher “supremely naive” after the comedian dined with President Donald Trump and praised him as an “effective politician.”
Carville, who helped get Bill Clinton elected to the presidency, hit out at Maher and accused him of giving Trump “legitimacy.”
The criticism comes after Maher, a longtime critic of the president, had a private dinner at the White House with Trump at the end of March. He made the surprise admission that, actually, he found Trump “gracious and measured” despite railing against him regularly on TV.
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In this one isolated instance Carville isn't wrong for once. Which is actually very notable. That said fuck both Maher and Carville
Bill Maher is a right wing troll, who's surprised he's meeting with a fascist regime?
Seriously... This fucking guy... "I like weed so that makes me liberal, but fuck the left on every other meric possible oh and don't even get me started on anyone younger than me, they deserve death."
Also I'm a free speech absolutist except for anyone who's 'woke' or Palestinian.
He's not a right-wing troll he is the epitome of what the DNC has become without all the populist rhetoric
The captured opposition portion of the DNC, yes, who are right wing trolls, so also yes.
He's not even a comedian. He's a propagandist who wishes he was Jon Stewart
I was thinking of something clever and this is just better. Bravo. Bill Maher is such an idiot
Joe wishes he was Carlin or Dave Chappelle or Mike Tyson
i would probably exclude dave now, because hes transphobic.
Have you yourself heard or seen Dave Chappelle say or do something transphobic? AFAIR Dave Chappelle pissed off one trans person, and got labeled as transphobic. He may not be an active trans allied, but IIRC he actually has trans people in his friends groups who haven't disavowed him.
Don't get me wrong, if someone's actually transphobic, they should totally get called out for it. But if the term is to keep its meaning, we shouldn't throw it around.
Nah, a couple years ago he had a big section of one of his Netflix specials just bashing trans folks with unfunny jokes.
Just looked it up, the special in question is "The Closer" and yeah just look at this mess -
So in the space of about 10 minutes we have transphobia, complaints of cancel culture, support of TERFs, support of JK Rowling, and a self admission that he "doesn't know what the fuck that is" but runs his mouth about it anyway.
When he (rightfully) got called out about this, the only thing he talked about for the next year afterward was how jazzed he was to be getting "canceled", as Netflix continued to bankroll more specials for him and suspended/fired trans employees who had complaints about this.
Dave Chappelle is a clown and not the good funny kind.
Lol. Rogan has like ten times the number of viewers as Maher, if not more than that. It's the other way around. Maher is a loser who only appeals to a rapidly shrinking audience.
Maher isn't naive. He is knowingly and willing being the living embodiment of the concern troll.. the "Now I'm a Leftist, but can we all admit that Ayn Rand is Hella based?" Kinda guy
James carville putting his name out there. Must have a book coming out. What a piece of shit human.
Bill Maher is the Chuck Schumer of comedy.
wouldnt that be seinfeld, recently he called people woke for not thinking his joke is funny, and also his and his wifes support financial of israels genocide.
Give her a break, they didn't get to the Middle East unit in her Social Studies class yet.
James Carville works for Palantir
He and Maher can both go fuck themselves
Carville and Maher can both fuck off to their hospice care homes already.
Everyone named in this article can please help themselves to a large steaming plate of my shit
I watched this Maher thing and I really don't get why anyone cares at all. He basically said trump wasn't a giant douche in person like he is on tv and online. And I totally believe that. Does that really surprise anyone? He's 100% the type of guy that would smile to your face and say your great and then talk mad shit behind your back. Call your mother a whore on truth social and then the second you see him he'd say he regretted it or it's fake news or he didn't actually mean it. I mean just look at zelensky, he talked MAAAAAD shit online for like weeks leading up to that and when they finally met he was asked "why did you call president zelensky a dictator?" And Trump's answer? "Did I say that? I can't believe I said that. Next question."
So yeah, I totally buy that he'd be mild mannered and even reasonable in private with some people. But once you turn your back or if he has a little army of ass kissers with him he will immediately change his tune. I feel like everyone has met a guy like that.
Who cares? Both of them are just money grubbing charlatans.
Pot, kettle, black and such.
Who actually watches Maher? For me he just sounds like a boring asshole. His show is neither entertaining nor informative. What demographic enjoys watching this guy?
I've got a podcast for you
https://podbay.fm/p/i-hate-bill-maher
This is an arsehole complaining about an arsehole dining with another arsehole. Arseception
putin found a new talking head you mean, in the "both sides maher", after most of them are past thier prime or used up by the media, so they need a "maga-lite" grifter.
So Maher is going to suck some butthole. All hail the new king. kiss the ring, suck the anus.
Is real time still a thing?
Unfortunately... His show's poster on HBOMax used to have an "emmy nominated" banner at the bottom, probably to ride on Oliver's success... Looks like they took it off now, LOL
Credit to James.
Nope. Two awful people had opinions about each other that’s all
i typically believe people are way too hard on maher just because he isn’t blindly parroting what the left talks about, but this is a really disappointing move. i don’t think there’s any defending it, if he went out to eat with that vile piece of shit.