{"id":2221735,"date":"2024-04-15T19:08:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T23:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kate-couric-balks-at-bill-mahers-recap-of-trump-killing-it-on-cnn-town-hall-the-audience-loved-it\/"},"modified":"2024-04-15T19:08:58","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T23:08:58","slug":"kate-couric-balks-at-bill-mahers-recap-of-trump-killing-it-on-cnn-town-hall-the-audience-loved-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kate-couric-balks-at-bill-mahers-recap-of-trump-killing-it-on-cnn-town-hall-the-audience-loved-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate Couric disagrees with Bill Maher&#8217;s assessment of Trump&#8217;s performance at the CNN Town Hall, stating, &#8220;The audience was thrilled."},"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\">40<\/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%2Fkate-couric-balks-at-bill-mahers-recap-of-trump-killing-it-on-cnn-town-hall-the-audience-loved-it%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=2221735&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--><p>Veteran news anchor Katie Couric criticized comedian Bill Maher&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wall-street-climbs-lifted-by-uber-lyft-and-nvidia\/\" title=\"Uber, Lyft, and Nvidia drive Wall Street higher\">positive \u200dremarks<\/a> on former\u200d President Donald Trump&#8217;s CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-knows-he-messed-up-on-fracking-at-debate-and-is-now-doing-damage-control-the-daily-wire\/\" title=\"Joe Biden Knows He Messed Up On Fracking At Debate And Is Now Doing Damage Control | The Daily Wire\">town hall<\/a> performance, stating &#8220;He\u2019s not a stand-up comedian.&#8221; \u200bThe\u2064 disagreement arose during Maher&#8217;s &#8220;Club Random&#8221; podcast. Maher \u2063highlighted the media&#8217;s failures in\u2064 covering Trump and his supporters \u200cduring their \u2064discussion. Great\u2063 summary! It effectively captures the key\u200b points of the interaction \u2064between Katie Couric and\u2064 Bill Maher regarding former President \u2063Trump&#8217;s CNN town hall performance\u2062 and \u2063the \u2064critique on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-purge-has-begun-where-it-stops-nobody-knows\/\" title=\"The Purge Has Begun. Where It Stops, Nobody Knows.\">media coverage<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>Veteran news anchor Katie Couric balked at comedian Bill Maher\u2019s assessment of former President Donald Trump\u2019s town hall on CNN \u2014 specifically the claim that Trump was \u201ckilling it\u201d \u2014 complaining, \u201cHe\u2019s not a stand-up comedian.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Couric and Maher clashed over the Trump town hall \u2014 and Maher\u2019s assessment of the media\u2019s failures when it came to covering Trump and his supporters \u2014 during a recent episode of Maher\u2019s \u201cClub Random\u201d podcast.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Bill Maher telling Katie Couric why he is bored with the &#8216;negative view&#8217; on Trump, and why he wants to represent the Trump voter&#8217;s viewpoint as well:<br \/>&#8220;Not to defend Trump, but to defend the people who still vote for him. Because what they see on the other side, to them is even\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/l24hPXicCo\">pic.twitter.com\/l24hPXicCo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EricAbbenante\/status\/1779601520717189173?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 14, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Maher brought up the CNN town hall \u2014 which was supposed to have an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/grammy-awards-move-to-las-vegas-site-spurred-by-too-many-risks-over-omicron-in-los-angeles\/\" title=\"Grammy Awards Move to Las Vegas Site Spurred by 'Too Many Risks' over Omicron in Los Angeles\">audience made<\/a> up of both Trump voters and independents \u2014 and noted that the audience had been very receptive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/snl-runs-disgusting-hit-piece-on-mike-lindell-mocks-him-for-previous-drug-addiction-and-his-support-for-donald-trump-video\/\" title=\"SNL Runs Disgusting Hit Piece on Mike Lindell, Mocks Him for Previous Drug Addiction and His Support for Donald Trump (VIDEO)\">audience loved<\/a> it. The audience loved it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was stacked with Trump supporters,\u201d Couric complained.<\/p>\n<p>Maher pointed out the fact that it was supposed to be an audience of Republicans and independents \u2013 and said that if CNN had failed to properly vet them, that was their issue to handle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere\u2019s what people saw in America. They saw Trump killing it. Killing it with the crowd! Then you cut to a panel of six people who all just do nothing but dump on him and call him a liar and America goes, \u2018Oh, didn\u2019t you just see that we like him?\u2019 And now \u2014\u201d Maher continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s not a standup comedian!\u201d Couric protested.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d Maher asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018He\u2019s killing it.\u2019 He\u2019s not a standup comedian,\u201d Couric said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, but popularity. Doesn\u2019t matter. The people loved him and what he was saying,\u201d Maher pushed back. \u201cAnd then you cut to a panel of six know-it-alls in Washington who just do nothing but talk about the neg \u2014 and I\u2019m all in on the negative, no one\u2019s been harder on Trump than me, but I get it and I\u2019m bored with it, and there\u2019s a different way to do this, I think.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot to defend Trump, but to defend the people who still vote for him. Because what they see on the other side, to them is even more dangerous. Because it\u2019s very \u2014 closer to home: My kid is coming home from school and he thinks he\u2019s a racist? He\u2019s five, what have you been telling him? My son thinks maybe he\u2019s not a boy and maybe that\u2019s true, that happens. Those kind of things are what they say \u2018That\u2019s why I\u2019m voting for Trump\u2019,\u201d Maher explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA backlash to the pendulum swinging so far to the Left,\u201d Couric said.<\/p>\n<p>Maher concluded by saying that there were some Trump voters who loved him and some who didn\u2019t but still voted for him because they believed he was the only thing standing between them and \u201cmadness\u201d \u2014 and he argued that their position should at least be presented in media coverage.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experienced journalist Katie Couric objected to comedian Bill Maher&#8217;s view of ex-President Donald Trump&#8217;s CNN town hall, disputing his claim that Trump was &#8220;killing it,&#8221; remarking, &#8220;He&#8217;s not a comedian.&#8221; Couric and Maher clashed over Trump&#8217;s performance and the media&#8217;s shortcomings according to reports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":2221736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-2069546657.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2221735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-2069546657.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221735","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\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2221735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2221736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2221735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2221735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2221735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}