{"id":1377444,"date":"2022-03-15T08:16:44","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T12:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1377444"},"modified":"2022-03-15T08:24:21","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T12:24:21","slug":"bill-maher-how-woke-became-an-eyeroll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-maher-how-woke-became-an-eyeroll\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Maher: How \u201cWoke\u201d Became an \u201cEyeroll\u201d"},"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\">14<\/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-how-woke-became-an-eyeroll%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=1377444&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><\/div>\n<p><strong>The media has blood on its hands.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not a comment from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/joe-rogan-media-lies-rittenhouse-censorship\/\">Joe Rogan<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/is-russell-brand-the-new-joe-rogan\/\">Russell Brand<\/a> or even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/patriot-purge-capitol-punishment-documentaries\/\">Tucker Carlson<\/a>. It\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/bill-maher-canceled-left\/\">Bill Maher<\/a>, the HBO star whose show offers a steady barrage of narrative disruptions in the Biden era.<\/p>\n<p>Maher is now hailed in conservative circles for those takes despite his progressive stance on most issues. It helps explain why he joined <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/benshapiro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ben Shapiro<\/a> on the host\u2019s \u201cSunday Special\u201d conversation.<\/p>\n<p>Famed Hollywood actor\/producer\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/actor-mark-duplass-apologizes-for-pro-ben-shapiro-tweet-amid-slams-from-liberal-fans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mark Duplass had to apologize<\/a> for sharing kind words about Shapiro four years ago. Maher takes a different, more classically liberal, approach.<\/p>\n<p>The veteran comic previously invited Shapiro on his \u201cReal Time with Bill Maher\u201d showcase. Over the weekend, Maher happily chatted with the Daily Wire co-founder.<\/p>\n<p>And he won\u2019t be apologizing for it.<\/p>\n<p>That conversation found the two agreeing and disagreeing in equal measure. Maher\u2019s take on the pandemic, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/blood-on-your-hands-bill-maher-blasts-media-for-ignoring-obesitys-risks-during-pandemic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media\u2019s malfeasance in covering it<\/a>, landed squarely on the former front.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeventy-eight percent of the people who died or are hospitalized are obese. And that\u2019s another one that\u2019s not a popular opinion to talk about, but I feel like I have to because it\u2019s such a salient fact in this,\u201d Maher said. \u201cIf you just said to somebody, \u2018Okay, there\u2019s an x factor in this \u2026 this x factor accounts for 78% who die or go to the hospital.\u2019 Wouldn\u2019t you be a curious? If you were a news organization, wouldn\u2019t you be talking about that fact all the time?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maher acknowledged how the culture quickly evolved from attacking fat shamers to ignoring the impact obesity has on the human body.<\/p>\n<p>That evolution, he warns, is killing people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAgain, I\u2019m not shaming people. I\u2019m just saying we are never going to solve the health care crisis in this country until we get our arms around this thing, and we\u2019re not allowed to talk about it or else you\u2019re a bad person. Anyone who doesn\u2019t, I\u2019m sorry, you have blood on your hands. Anyone in the media who doesn\u2019t talk about this because you\u2019re so afraid of the reaction, you have blood on your hands because you are not doing these people a favor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He didn\u2019t stop there.<\/p>\n<p>Maher attacked the woke revolution with Shapiro, too, sharing how he initially sided with cultural forces promoting diversity and kindness.\u00a0Then he learned the movement\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/media-cancel-culture-fake-news\/\">true agenda.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWoke \u2026 has become an eye roll,\u201d Maher says. \u201cI only heard the term [woke] three or four years ago \u2026 and it was, like, alert to injustice? OK, I\u2019m down with that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt became sort of a by-word for a lot of this <em>goofy<\/em> stuff, that\u2019s what I\u2019m always railing against,\u201d he says. \u201cThat\u2019s why they play me on Fox News now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shapiro asked his reaction to appearing on a network which frowns on his political views.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI haven\u2019t changed. At all. My politics hasn\u2019t changed. They\u2019ve changed,\u201d he says, noting a quick, and pointed, example. \u201cFive years ago, no one was talking about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/defund-the-police-celebrities-silent\/\">Defunding the Police<\/a> \u2026 that\u2019s not me changing. That\u2019s things changing. I\u2019m reacting to it \u201d<\/p>\n<p>He had other examples to bolster his point.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLetting three-year-olds decide what gender they are. This wasn\u2019t something five years ago.\u00a0Free speech, used to be a left-wing thing we were proud of and owned. Now, that seems to be under attack,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>That doesn\u2019t mean he\u2019ll be voting Republican any time soon, though.<\/p>\n<p>Maher wrapped that part of the chat assailing Republicans for not supporting Climate Change initiatives and decrying the Jan. 6 riots, keeping part of his traditionally progressive persona intact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The media has blood on its hands. That\u2019s not a comment from Joe Rogan, Russell Brand or even Tucker Carlson. 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