Bill Maher sometimes gets things very right.
As we reported earlier, he ripped into those in the media who lied about President Donald Trump’s comment regarding former member of Congress Liz Cheney, chastising anyone who was suggesting it was a threat.
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He also said that Joe Biden’s comment calling Trump supporters “garbage” was much bigger than some thought:
“I think it’s a bigger gaffe than people think,” the “Real Time” host said during his panel discussion. “It’s so funny, Joe Biden, his whole career, he was like Mr. Gaffe, and then here at the very end — he’s like Aaron Judge [in Game 5 of the World Series]. He just f–kin’ muffed the fly ball and at the end of the thing, and blew the whole [game].”
“Because I feel like it epitomizes everything that the Trump people hate about the Democrats. They look down at us. It’s like ‘deplorables’ times 10,” Maher added.
Podcaster Michael Moynihan agreed that it was an “unbelievable own goal,” and then to try to excuse it by arguing about an apostrophe was ridiculous when the meaning was clear. It showed that they would argue against reality and lie their heads off in order to preserve their own power. Not a good look in the final days of the campaign.
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Maher also said he thinks the Democrats might not have looked good by how they reacted to comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s joke, “Did the Democrats look weak because they can’t take a joke?” Maher asked. “Because I think that’s another Achilles’ heel that they have.” Indeed, that’s spot on.
Maher is likely correct, as Biden’s comment appeared to garner interest on Google trends, as we reported. It’s gets far more attention for Biden to be insulting millions of Americans than a random comic doing a joke.
Then Trump drew even more attention to it with the masterful stroke of riding in a garbage truck and donning an orange vest.
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Not only did Biden’s comment insult millions of Americans and charge up people to come out and vote, it also led to a scandal of Biden and the White House changing the transcript about what he actually said. Now, the House Oversight Committee is pressing them to correct the transcript and preserve the records.
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“To date, the White House has not issued a corrected transcript, and the false transcript remains on the White House webpage,” wrote House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (R-NY) and Oversight Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) in a letter to the White House counsel’s office Friday demanding it preserve all documents related to the transcript.
Stefanik and Comer noted an Associated Press report citing an internal email from the head of the stenographer’s office that said Biden’s press office “conferred with the president” to change the transcript.
The stenographers’ office had complained of “spoliation of transcript integrity” and a “breach of protocol” by the press office after Biden, 81, said on a campaign call with the Voto Latino group that “the only garbage I see floating out there is his [Trump’s] supporters,” according to the report.
Not a good finish to Kamala Harris’ campaign.