{"id":1315213,"date":"2022-02-19T14:11:23","date_gmt":"2022-02-19T19:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1315213"},"modified":"2022-02-19T19:23:46","modified_gmt":"2022-02-20T00:23:46","slug":"bill-maher-shreds-lebron-james-john-cena-eileen-gu-stop-kowtowing-to-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-maher-shreds-lebron-james-john-cena-eileen-gu-stop-kowtowing-to-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Maher Shreds LeBron James, John Cena, Eileen Gu: Stop Kowtowing To China"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbill-maher-shreds-lebron-james-john-cena-eileen-gu-stop-kowtowing-to-china%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1315213&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Bill-Maher-scaled-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>HBO host Bill Maher slammed NBA star LeBron James, actor John Cena, and skier Eileen Gu for their actions related to China in his New Rule segment on \u201cReal Time with Bill Maher.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maher slammed Gu, an 18-year-old American skier who turned on the U.S. and competed for China in the recent Olympic games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs that cool now, to choose to represent a totalitarian police state over America?\u201d Maher asked. \u201cThe Olympics pretends to only be about sports, but of course, the games have always been a bit of a proxy war for which country has the best system. And by choosing Team China, Eileen Gu became a living symbol of China\u2019s triumph over the West, which wouldn\u2019t bother me so much if I thought China had triumphed over us in the ways that really matter. But they haven\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, we do have human rights issues right here at home, we do, but we\u2019re still at least, for another three years, a democracy based on freedom, and they are an authoritarian surveillance state based on \u2018How would you like to disappear for a few months?\u2019\u201d Maher said. \u201cLike that tennis player [Peng Shuai] who recently vanished for a while when she said she had been raped by a government official. We do still throw too many black people in jail, but perspective matters. China has basically jailed an entire ethnic minority, the Uyghurs, a situation that both the Trump and Biden administrations [have] called a genocide. America is not close to that. And it\u2019s a cynical dodge to pretend that China\u2019s sins should be overlooked because we all do it. No.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn America, we\u2019re supposed to root for democratic government, not apologize for it,\u201d Maher said. \u201cBut the NBA has a television deal with China worth a billion-and-a-half dollars. So, LeBron James said Morey needed to be \u2018educated on the situation,\u2019 the situation being, \u2018I\u2019ve got some shoes to sell.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Kowtow\u2019 is a Chinese word, but boy, Americans have gotten good at it,\u201d Maher said, noting that companies gain access to Chinese markets only if they don\u2019t upset the Chinese Communist Party.&nbsp;\u201cThat\u2019s the deal China offers American companies and celebrities: We\u2019ll give you access to our billion-plus consumers as long as you shut up about the whole police-state-genocide thing. John Cena took that deal. Well, c\u2019mon. China accounts for 34% of global box office, and he\u2019s a movie star now. So, like the Uyghurs, last year, he learned he needed to get some re-education. You see, John referred to Taiwan as a country, as if it was a separate country from China, which it is. But China would like to do to Taiwan what it did to Tibet and what it\u2019s now doing to Hong Kong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen a country can make your big muscly Macho Man action star grovel in their language, you know you\u2019re somebody\u2019s b****,\u201d Maher said. \u201cIn the original \u2018Top Gun,\u2019 Tom Cruise wore a bomber jacket with the flags of several Asian countries that are our allies sewn on the back. Well, the flag for Taiwan has now magically disappeared for the upcoming \u2018Top Gun: Maverick.\u2019 Well, he used to be a maverick. Now he does whatever China says.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Olympics?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Olympics<\/a> pretends to only be about sports, but really the games have always been a bit of a proxy war for which country has the best system. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/StopKowtowingChina?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#StopKowtowingChina<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/l2fUDh4nSi\">pic.twitter.com\/l2fUDh4nSi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bill Maher (@billmaher) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/billmaher\/status\/1494892967089225728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 19, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire\u2019s first original film, Shut In, has made its cinematic debut, being met with rave reviews. 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