The week started with a bang. To paraphrase T.S. Eliot, it ends with — well, not a whimper, but only a tired lament from Bill Maher about Larry David’s intellect. For a man who got called a Nazi stooge by his (former?) friend in the pages of the New York Times, it seems like he’s more energized by Pope Paul than the crank who shivved him in print.
Yes, that’s not a typo. In the full interview with Piers Morgan, Maher spends quite a while discussing Pope Francis’s death, the Catholic Church, and why his father left during Pope Paul VI’s era. Maher seems bored with David’s attack on him more than angry or energized, but he does slap back rather effectively. “The moment you play the Hitler card,” Maher tells Morgan, “you’ve lost the argument” (via Twitchy):
“It’s kind of insulting to six million dead Jews…”
Bill Maher responds to Larry David’s essay skewering his dinner with Trump – only on Uncensored.
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The argument gets lost at this point not just because Hitler is “the GOAT of evil,” as Maher quips, but because it’s an idiotic analogy. I covered that in two posts earlier in the week, but just to recap:
Hitler didn’t come to power and have dinners with his critics, for one thing; he put critics in camps, or had them killed by storm troopers until the storm troopers became a liability, and then he had them killed by the SS. (Read up on The Night of the Long Knives.) Hitler didn’t demand an end to anti-Semitism on campuses either, but instead ordered it to become policy throughout all of government, right up to the point where Hitler implemented his “final solution,” a phrase that Hamasniks have been using at times during their campus intimidation campaigns over the last 19 months.
In fairness, Maher and Morgan do spend quite a bit of time discussing the dinner with Trump and the reaction to it. Maher gets somewhat exercised in defending his decision, and says that the reaction has been overwhelmingly — but not universally — positive. The people who complain have been “surprising,” Maher says, presumably including David — although it certainly wasn’t a surprise to Alan Dershowitz.
This certainly dials down expectations for tonight’s Real Time episode on HBO. Maybe Maher is saving up his outrage for a live audience, or maybe this conversation will prompt him to take a sharper tone. Morgan scores a big point in noting that the media outlets and Hollywood moral idiots that constantly play the HItler card on Trump have nothing to say about regimes that actually follow Hitler’s playbook, like Iran and Hamas, in attempting genocide of the Jews. Perhaps that might inspire some commentary when Maher takes the stage. In this interview, Maher seems rather bored with David and stupid Hitler analogies, and maybe that’s not a bad thing.
Except for insulting the memory of six million dead Jews, of course, and the intelligence of anyone who read the NYT essay.
The whole episode of Morgan’s Uncensored is below, so catch the full context. The rest of the conversation doesn’t explicitly address David, but he does wonder how far one can go in canceling a sitting American president. How far does that go, Maher wonders — should Democrat Senators refuse to talk to Trump? How can a democracy operate in such a cancel culture? That’s certainly worth thinking about … and discussing.
