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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    911 days ago

    This is an arsehole complaining about an arsehole dining with another arsehole. Arseception

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    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?

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      712 days ago

      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.

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        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.

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    412 days ago

    So Maher is going to suck some butthole. All hail the new king. kiss the ring, suck the anus.

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    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.

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    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.

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    3412 days ago

    James carville putting his name out there. Must have a book coming out. What a piece of shit human.

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    812 days ago

    Is there some way Carville and Maher can mutually annihilate, leaving behind nothing but a whiff of horseshit?

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      1312 days ago

      I was thinking of something clever and this is just better. Bravo. Bill Maher is such an idiot

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        812 days ago

        I recently heard somebody say that Joe Rogan wishes he was Bill Maher. Do we have a wannabe chain started here?

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              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.

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                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 -

                A little more than halfway into The Closer, Chappelle mentions writer J.K. Rowling, who in recent years was called out for her own transphobic remarks.

                “They’ve canceled people that are more powerful than me,” Chappelle said in the new special. “They canceled J.K. Rowling, my god. J.K. Rowling wrote all the Harry Potter books by herself. She sold so many books, the bible worries about her. And they canceled her because she said in an interview—and this is not exactly what she said but effectually—she said gender was a fact. And then the trans community got mad as shit. They started calling her a TERF.”

                Chappelle added that he didn’t know “what the fuck that was” initially, using the opportunity to mock the trans community.

                “I didn’t event know what the fuck that was but I know that trans people make up words to win arguments, so I looked it up,” he said. “TERF is an acronym. It stands for trans-exclusionary radical feminists, and this is a real thing. This is a group of women that hate transgender, they don’t hate transgender women but they look at trans women the way we Blacks might look at blackface. It offends them. Like, ‘Ew, this bitch is doing an impression of me.’”

                Chappelle then noted he “shouldn’t speak on this” because he’s not a woman, but continued anyway.

                “I am a feminist, that’s right,” he said. “I’m team TERF. I agree, I agree man. Gender is a fact. You have to look at it from a woman’s perspective.”

                Later, Chappelle claimed he wasn’t saying “trans women aren’t women” before immediately rolling into remarks that contradicted that claim.

                “I am just saying that those pussies that they got, you know what I mean?” he said. “I’m not saying it’s not pussy but that’s like Beyond Pussy or Impossible Pussy, you know what I mean? It tastes like pussy but that’s not quite what it is. That’s not blood, that’s beet juice.”

                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.

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          211 days ago

          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.

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      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

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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