Bill Maher ≠ William F. Buckley

Maher pretends to be an intellectual, but is just another garden variety progressive.

I once considered Bill Maher an intellectual. A leftist intellectual, but an intellectual, nonetheless.

That’s probably because I haven’t really paid attention to him for decades except when he said something that made sense.

Bit is not an intellectual, and more than that, he is not your friend nor is he leaning toward conservative views with his latest ideological mini renaissance.

He markets himself as the leftist William F. Buckley and like WFB, Maher speaks in affable, measured, properly constructed, intellectual tones, but in reality, he is nothing more than a smug, condescending coward.

I listened to Megyn Kelly’s interview with Maher today and I have to say, he is sort of a buffoon, albeit a highly educated, erudite, politically motivated buffoon.

He said:

• The GOP hates democracy.

• Trump, if elected, will institute an authoritarian government.

• The extreme right is far worse than the extreme left.

• January 6^th was an insurrection.

• Cops were killed at the capitol.

• Trump’s retention of documents is a crime because he resisted giving them back, Biden’s retention is not because after 40 years of having them, he said “Ooopsie!”

• Trump is a felon because Democrats charged him, Biden is not because Republicans didn’t.

• Biden’s control over the border is bad but is no worse than Trump’s.

• Biden believes in traditional America, Trump does not.

• Trump not conceding the 2020 election is damaging to America.

• If Trump gets elected, he will never give up power.

And so on and so on. These are the standard leftist things Maher strategically knows and what he strategically chooses to now know (or simply acknowledge) because somebody on the right or a right leaning news outlet reports it.

The bulleted items are the smug part.

The way he talked down to Kelly, one of the smartest interviewers out there, telling her she is “silly” for believing facts he didn’t know or accept (and there were a lot of them), is the condescending part.

He is against woke ideology, the idea that men can be pregnant, more Black people kill other Black people than whites kill blacks, the left thinking everything is racist and believes Biden and his cabinet are a circle-jerking cluster fuck.

I thought his comments about Trump not conceding the 2020 election was interesting because it sort of encapsulates the ethos of Democrats what is said means more than what is done.

When Kelly brought up the fact that Hillary was the OG of election deniers, Maher first pretended that Hillary never denied the results of the election, then he said that she conceded the morning after the election, which she did, and then he told Kelly that it didn’t matter that she spent the next four years saying Trump was an illegitimate president, that the Russians got him elected and she claimed the election was stolen.

Because she said the words.

Somehow, Trump not saying them is a threat to the Constitution and the future of America.

That leads us to the cowardly part.

When you get right down to it, he is still a barking mad leftist, just one who is against the things that hurt the Democrats’ electoral chances. If he didn’t see how, these were hurting Democrats, he would not be against them.

If it hurts Democrats, he wants people to stop doing those things until after the election.

Find the interview here: