{"id":1773668,"date":"2022-12-13T07:54:03","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T12:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1773668"},"modified":"2022-12-13T11:04:19","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T16:04:19","slug":"bill-maher-praises-twitter-files-journalist-bari-weiss-the-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-maher-praises-twitter-files-journalist-bari-weiss-the-free-press\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Maher Praises Twitter Files Journalist Bari Weiss, the Free Press"},"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\">22<\/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-praises-twitter-files-journalist-bari-weiss-the-free-press%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=1773668&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\/12\/bill-maher-democrats.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>In no way, shape or form has liberal comic Bill Maher been red-pilled.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What we\u2019ve seen from the \u201cReal Time with Bill Maher\u201d host is a willingness to follow the funny wherever it leads. And, more importantly, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/bill-maher-ben-shapiro-woke-eyeroll\/\">call out his own political side.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, Maher has taken that sentiment to a powerful new level.<\/p>\n<p>Maher still appears to read, and believe, the mainstream press despite his knack for reaching across the aisle. For one stark example, Maher had no idea Hillary Clinton has been pushing election denialism for nearly six years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t Burn This Book\u201d author <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/dave-rubin-maher-chappelle-rogan-conservatives-woke-comics\/\">Dave Rubin<\/a> educated Maher on that front.<\/p>\n<p>Maher\u2019s willingness to tweak his fellow progressives earned him some fresh enemies on the Left. His latest decree, though, could make things much dicier for him in liberal circles.<\/p>\n<p>Maher gave a full-throated shout-out to Bari Weiss on Twitter over the weekend. For the uninitiated, Weiss is a left-leaning reporter and columnist who recently worked for The New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>She famously quit the hard-Left outlet after being ostracized by her peers, among other complaints. She says she was called a \u201cracist\u201d and a \u201cNazi\u201d among other vicious epithets. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/us-news\/2020-08-22\/ty-article\/.premium\/bari-weiss-the-liberal-other-liberals-love-to-hate\/0000017f-db4f-db22-a17f-ffff4e880000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Weiss is Jewish<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Her<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bariweiss.com\/resignation-letter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> resignation letter proved one for the ages.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Twitter is not on the masthead of The New York Times. But Twitter has become its ultimate editor. As the ethics and mores of that platform have become those of the paper, the paper itself has increasingly become a kind of performance space. Stories are chosen and told in a way to satisfy the narrowest of audiences, rather than to allow a curious public to read about the world and then draw their own conclusions. I was always taught that journalists were charged with writing the first rough draft of history. Now, history itself is one more ephemeral thing molded to fit the needs of a predetermined narrative.<\/p>\n<p>Weiss\u2019s comeback came in a hurry. She fled to Substack and created her own news vertical, amassing thousands of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/recode\/23289433\/newsletters-substack-subscriptions-bari-weiss-semafor-peter-kafka-column\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">paying followers in the process<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/big-tech-censorship-conservative-comedy\/\"><strong>RELATED: BIG TECH IS CRUSHING CONSERVATIVE COMEDY<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More recently, Weiss joined a small cadre of journalists working with Elon Musk to share the behind-the-scenes chicanery at Twitter prior to Musk purchasing the platform.<\/p>\n<p>Enter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/the-fourth-installment-of-the-twitter-files-is-released\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The\u00a0Twitter Files.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The ongoing series reveals the deceptions, censorship and collusions under ex-CEO Jack Dorsey\u2019s watch. So far, we\u2019ve learned that <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/12\/09\/twitters-shadow-bans-are-why-the-public-turned-against-experts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter routinely lied about its shadow banning practices<\/a>, invented <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/video\/6316855618112\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new rules to ban users<\/a> who embarrassed progressives and served as an adjunct of the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n<p>More revelations are expected shortly.<\/p>\n<p>That coaxed\u00a0progressives to excoriate Weiss, along with fellow left-leaning reporters like Matt Taibbi, while declaring the shocking revelations a parade of \u201cnothingburgers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maher disagrees. How do we know that?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The comedian praised both Weiss and the launch of her new platform, The Free Press. Weiss used the Twitter Files gig to promote The Free Press, an extension of her Common Sense platform vowing more old-school journalism.<\/p>\n<p>Sign Maher up.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Couldn\u2019t be prouder that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bariweiss?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@bariweiss<\/a> \u2018s enterprise, formally Common Sense, is now The Free Press (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheFP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@thefp<\/a>), a new name to cover its more vast influence. Those who hunger for truth over tribalism are still a minority, but we\u2019re growing! Congrats to Bari and Nellie! I\u2019ll be reading!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bill Maher (@billmaher) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/billmaher\/status\/1601749484811059201?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 11, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Truth over tribalism. Sounds like The Free Press\u2019 marketing team should give Maher a call.<\/p>\n<p>Some of Maher\u2019s Twitter followers, including some so-called journalists, disagreed with the endorsement.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">What amazes me is that Bari Weiss and her ilk carry on like they\u2019re the only reporters who are free from bias. When in fact they are some of the most remarkably biased journalists working today. Why do you think Elon Musk chose them? Because they\u2019d be impartial and tough on him?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Benjamin Ryan (@benryanwriter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/benryanwriter\/status\/1601755834824151040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 11, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, if Maher reads The Free Press he might not change his party affiliation. His core values align with the Democrats of yore, and little will change that.<\/p>\n<p>He may learn, though, that the news media is even more biased than he ever imagined. And, chances are, he won\u2019t be alone in that realization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In no way, shape or form has liberal comic Bill Maher been red-pilled. 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