{"id":1489360,"date":"2022-05-24T08:00:03","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T12:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1489360"},"modified":"2022-05-24T08:00:26","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T12:00:26","slug":"bill-maher-is-not-your-new-conservative-bff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-maher-is-not-your-new-conservative-bff\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Maher Is Not Your New Conservative BFF"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/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-is-not-your-new-conservative-bff%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=1489360&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\/05\/image-2022-05-23T163036.290.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Left-wing comedian Bill Maher\u2019s name was on conservative commentators\u2019 lips again this weekend after the TV host suggested some children claim to be the opposite sex because \u201cit\u2019s trendy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we can admit that in certain enclaves there is some level of trendiness to the idea of being anything other than straight, then this is not a serious science-based discussion,\u201d Maher said on his show Friday. \u201cWe\u2019re literally experimenting on children,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>National Review <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/bill-maher-trans-kids-are-cannon-fodder-in-the-culture-wars\/\">cheered<\/a> Maher\u2019s comments, figuring that \u201cBill Maher is still a Democrat, but he\u2019s become the kind of Democrat who posts NR headlines on Real Time and makes points that echo the ones we make all the time here. In other words, he\u2019s a National Review kind of Democrat. Welcome, Bill.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Maher\u2019s candid observation was certainly not wrong, and even sounded refreshingly sensible compared with his fellow leftists\u2019 refusal to listen to medical caution, psychological concerns, or rational debate amid their push to fill kids with puberty blockers and lop off their genitals. Conservatives should be glad to let Maher join the politically diverse coalition of people who think such treatment of minors likely amounts to abuse. That said, opposing such abuse is a very, very low bar.<\/p>\n<p>If a lifelong practitioner of left-wing thought popped into the conversation to say that murder is bad, that parents shouldn\u2019t beat or starve their children, or that we shouldn\u2019t march the Marines to Ottawa and pillage cities in their path, he would hardly deserve applause. (Saying that mothers shouldn\u2019t be able to kill and dismember their unborn children, or that we shouldn\u2019t be marching so <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/05\/12\/a-reckless-policy-of-bleeding-russia-in-ukraine-risks-getting-the-u-s-into-a-foolish-foreign-war\/\">flippantly<\/a> toward nuclear war, should be equally obvious, but those are points for another day.)<\/p>\n<p>So of course Maher\u2019s comments from the weekend were right. They even sound smart if you compare them to the looney agendas the Democrat Party has latched onto. <\/p>\n<p>But just because he\u2019s foolish enough to still associate with the Democrat Party doesn\u2019t make Maher uniquely deserving of accolades for stumbling upon a basic statement of common sense. The fact that most of his political ilk are crazy enough to oppose that common sense doesn\u2019t make Maher suddenly astute, either.<\/p>\n<p>Plenty of smart people on the right and in the center of the political aisle have been saying exactly what Maher did (and far more), for far longer, in the face of relentless criticism, cancellation threats, prosecution, and worse. In fact, Maher\u2019s pretty late to the reality party.<\/p>\n<p>Parents have <a href=\"https:\/\/www1.cbn.com\/cbnnews\/us\/2022\/march\/ca-mom-says-state-pushed-teen-daughter-into-transgender-treatments-leading-her-to-commit-suicide\">spoken<\/a> out after their children were taken from them or driven to suicide by radical trans ideology. Eighth-grade kids in Wisconsin are being <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/05\/20\/under-bidens-title-ix-changes-wisconsins-sexual-harassment-circus-over-trans-pronouns-would-ensnare-students-in-every-state\/\">subjected<\/a> to a Title IX sexual harassment investigation for using pronouns other than \u201cthey\u201d and \u201cthem\u201d to refer to a female student. A Loudoun County father was infamously <a href=\"https:\/\/thefdrlst.wpengine.com\/2021\/10\/13\/loudoun-county-dad-smeared-as-domestic-terrorist-says-school-covered-up-daughters-rape-by-boy-in-girls-bathroom\/\">arrested<\/a> after he showed up at a school board meeting incensed that the district had covered up the rape of his daughter in a school bathroom so the board could push through a transgender bathroom policy.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not to say someone has to suffer what these families have before participating in the conversation. But when parents, children, and families have endured so much and received so much hate (from Maher\u2019s own side), is Bill Maher really the most deserving recipient of sympathies and accolades for taking far less of a stand than they have? People on the right shouldn\u2019t be such a cheap date for those who work to destroy our constitutional order.<\/p>\n<p>Maher is by no means a red-pilled conservative convert who is willing to acknowledge reality or limits on leftism even when it hurts his image. He was a <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2016\/tv\/news\/bill-maher-bernie-sanders-endorsement-1201699231\/\">Bernie bro<\/a> in 2016 before throwing his support behind Democrat presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. He\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2013\/04\/bill-maher-2nd-amendment-090023\">called<\/a> the Second Amendment \u201cbullsh-t\u201d and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2013\/06\/01\/maher_the_problem_with_obamacare_isnt_too_much_socialism_its_still_too_much_capitalism.html\">insisted<\/a> \u201cThe problem with Obamacare isn\u2019t too much socialism, it\u2019s still too much capitalism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On abortion, he said just this month that \u201cI never thought life itself was particularly precious.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really don\u2019t. I\u2019m serious. I think life is for the living,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/decider.com\/2022\/05\/07\/bill-maher-tackles-abortion-says-life-is-not-particularly-precious-on-real-time\/\">continued<\/a>. \u201cUntil you\u2019re born you\u2019re not living. We wouldn\u2019t miss you if you\u2019re not born.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In March, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/bill-maher-is-still-the-democrat-mouthpiece-he-has-always-been\">parroted<\/a> the talking point that Republicans are racist and \u201cwould be thrilled to have no black seats on the court,\u201d despite the fact that conservative hero Justice Clarence Thomas is a black man. And last April, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/bill-maher-holds-up-joe-biden-as-the-ultimate-way-to-debunk-ageism-video\/\">assured<\/a> us that doddering Joe Biden would be \u201cthe right man for this moment\u201d who was \u201cgetting things done on wealth inequality, in Afghanistan, racial justice and climate change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So no, Bill Maher is not your new conservative BFF. It\u2019s well and good to acknowledge leftists when they call out their own side\u2019s insanity (as he has), or when they reject their philosophical framework that created the insanity to begin with (as he has not). Someone doesn\u2019t have to agree with you on everything to join forces in pursuit of a particular cause. But leftists like Maher call out their own party when they see the party doing things that are bad for the party. <\/p>\n<p>Like blue-state emigrants who resettle in red states to escape their decaying governance and then vote for the same decadent policies, they complain about the ridiculous ends of their own beliefs while refusing to reconsider their allegiances. Their ultimate goal is still a stronger but still very far-left Democrat Party, not a rejection of the party\u2019s dangerous and failed fundamental tenets. And the right has far better things to do than celebrate that.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Elle Reynolds is an assistant editor at The Federalist, and received her B.A. in government from Patrick Henry College with a minor in journalism. You can follow her work on Twitter at @_etreynolds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Left-wing comedian Bill Maher\u2019s name was on conservative commentators\u2019 lips again this weekend after the TV host suggested some children claim to be the opposite sex because \u201cit\u2019s trendy.\u201d \u201cIf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":500,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1489360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/500"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1489360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1489360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1489360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1489360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}