One of the things that makes Bill Maher interesting as a “liberal” is that he isn’t afraid to call out the Democrats. He’s admitted for a long time that Biden wasn’t up to running again, and told the Democrats that they should run someone else, for example.
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When it came to the Trump assassination attempt, Maher also isn’t hesitant to raise the question that’s on everyone’s mind and makes an important point, as Matt Vespa at our sister site Townhall reported. On Friday’s “Real Time,” Maher asked Biden Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg if Biden should have fired the director of the Secret Service. Buttigieg, of course, gives a typical Biden team non-answer, saying he wasn’t in on “all the details.” This is why people are so disgusted with this team; they just can’t ever be straight with people, at least enough to say, “Yeah, this looks horrible.”
“Everything that led up to that moment, that horrible moment, is under a microscope,” Buttigieg said. Then he said he thought that Biden would “do the right thing.” I bet you he doesn’t.
Maher wasn’t buying that, laying out what is disturbing many. “But you didn’t need a microscope to see it. The guy was on the roof, like, like, not that far away with a rifle for a long time. I mean, I don’t, I don’t….I’ve seen people fired for less. And it just looks bad. It looks like, well, the other guy from the other party got shot. Well, we’ll look into it, if we have time.”
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That’s exactly it. That seems to be how they treated Trump’s security in general, based on all the reports that have come out so far: eh, whatever, the other guy. And the lackadaisical attitude and the lack of transparency is prompting some to wonder if it’s just incompetence or something more. It’s also infuriating people, including senators who are demanding answers. The Secret Service Director Kim Cheatle is supposed to testify on Monday before the House Oversight Committee.
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Buttigieg’s response was a whole lot of blather with the words “accountability” and “change” thrown in to sound good. But I wouldn’t count on it. No one is held accountable for Biden team mistakes, we saw that, big time, for example, with the Afghanistan withdrawal debacle.
There was another segment where Maher hit on another essential truth about the media, this time in regard to the assassination attempt. They spoke about MSNBC taking “Morning Joe” off the air on Monday. Maher was aghast at what they did, “They pulled the show off the air Monday because they were afraid someone on the show would say something untoward.”
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“You can’t trust your journalists? How could the people trust in these journalists if the network itself can’t trust them to go on the air and not f**k it up. You can’t be respectful?” Maher rebuked them..
Yes, exactly and that’s the problem. Maher really put a finger on it. It’s a big tell on themselves that they believed their “journalists” couldn’t behave, even under those circumstances. As Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) replied, has he been watching what “Morning Joe” has said over the past eight years?
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