'So hypocritical': Bill Maher blasts MAGA 'cancel culture'
In 2001, comedian Bill Maher's show "Politically Incorrect" was canceled in response to his comments about the 9/11 terrorist attacks. But Maher bounced back. His current show on HBO, "Real Time," has an enthusiastic following — and during his Friday night, September 19 monologue on "Real Time," Maher drew a parallel between the cancelation of "Politically Correct" 24 years ago and Disney's decision to indefinitely suspend "Jimmy Kimmel Live."
Kimmel's show was suspended after Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Brendan Carr railed against Kimmel's comments on Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old suspect in the fatal shooting of Turning Point USA's Charlie Kirk. Kimmel, on his September 15 broadcast, argued that Robinson was part of the MAGA movement —not a leftist as President Donald Trump and his allies are claiming — and Carr threatened to crack down on media outlets who say anything about Kirk that he doesn't like.
Maher didn't agree with Kimmel's comments but stressed that suspending his show was wildly inappropriate — and a troubling example of media outlets "caving" to "cancel culture" from the Trump Administration.
"This intimidation on the right is just so hypocritical," Maher told viewers. "I mean, everyone is scared now. They're all trying to kowtow. 'Good Morning America' is now changing its name to 'Good Morning America — Even the Scum Who Didn't Vote For Trump. Next year, the Golden Bachelor is Rudy Giuliani. Wolf Blitzer is broadcasting live from The Capitulation Room."
Maher said of "Politically Incorrect's" cancelation in 2001, "I got canceled before cancel even had a culture."
The "Real Time" host disagreed with Kimmel's argument that coming from a family of MAGA Republicans made Robinson himself part of MAGA but emphasized that Kimmel "has every right to be wrong."
Maher told viewers, "It is a fool's errand to try to say that these nuts who do these things are any team. Jimmy's wrong, I think, to put him in one team…. This kid doesn't belong in either party; he belongs in a straight jacket. He's an outpatient who should not be out."
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