{"id":2254883,"date":"2024-05-29T10:12:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T14:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-bill-maher-silences-hollywood-actress-after-wild-claim-about-conservatives-and-anti-semitism\/"},"modified":"2024-05-29T10:14:31","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T14:14:31","slug":"watch-bill-maher-silences-hollywood-actress-after-wild-claim-about-conservatives-and-anti-semitism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-bill-maher-silences-hollywood-actress-after-wild-claim-about-conservatives-and-anti-semitism\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Bill Maher Shuts Down Actress Over Outlandish Statement on Conservatives and Anti-Semitism"},"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%2Fwatch-bill-maher-silences-hollywood-actress-after-wild-claim-about-conservatives-and-anti-semitism%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=2254883&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>The\u200d article discusses Bill \u200dMaher&#8217;s unique perspective\u2063 in addressing anti-Semitism within Hollywood, contrasting his\u200d stance with that of Sandra Bernhard.\u200c Maher challenges \u200bprevailing narratives, highlighting the flaws within both \u2062the\u2063 left and right&#8217;s approach to the issue. The conversation \u200bsheds light on \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/knowles-stop-defending-academic-freedom\/\" title=\"KNOWLES: Stop Defending \u2018Academic Freedom\u2019\">divergent views<\/a> and\u2062 the struggle to counter\u2062 anti-Semitic sentiments \u2062effectively. The article explores\u200b Bill Maher&#8217;s \u2062distinct view on tackling anti-Semitism\u200c in Hollywood, contrasting it with Sandra Bernhard&#8217;s perspective. Maher critiques prevailing narratives,\u2064 exposing flaws in \u200dboth left and right approaches\u200d to the issue. The \u200bdiscussion \u2064underscores differing \u2063opinions and the challenge \u2063of effectively combating \u200danti-Semitic attitudes.  <\/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<header> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/commentary\/\">  Commentary <\/a>   <span> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/cillianzeal\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <span>   By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/cillianzeal\/%20\"><span>C. Douglas Golden<\/span><\/a> <\/span> <span>   May 29, 2024 at 6:47am <\/span> <\/span>  <\/header>\n<section>\n<p>I\u2019m not sure whether it says more about Bill Maher or Hollywood liberals that the former has become one of the sole voices of reason among the latter.<\/p>\n<p>Maher, longtime host of HBO\u2019s \u201cReal Time\u201d and now a prolific podcaster, has long used his platform to call out the excesses of his own camp, but the divergence has become more apparent over the past few years \u2014 to the point where the substance-friendly Playboy Mansion frequent-flier is often the only voice of reason in an especially unreasonable milieu.<\/p>\n<p>Consider his interview with comedienne and actress Sandra Bernhard, still apparently relevant after all these years. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/hollywood-stars-melt-amy-coney-barrett-confirmation-becomes-official\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bernhard<\/a> \u2014 best known for her role on the ABC sitcom \u201cRoseanne\u201d and more recently (if not more famously) seen on \u201cPose\u201d and \u201cAmerican Horror Story\u201d \u2014 visited Maher for an episode of his podcast \u201cClub Random with Bill Maher\u201d and ended up looking like an insulated apologist for the worst elements of anti-Semitism on the American left.<\/p>\n<p>This is doubly troubling since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/celebs-band-together-make-sure-people-die-pandemic-rally-abortion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bernhard<\/a> is Jewish. However, she seemed upset that \u201ceverybody\u2019s, like, up in arms now about being Jewish.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yes, unbelievable. Widespread prejudice towards one\u2019s ethno-religious group \u2014 particularly when that prejudice is either condoned or minimized by those on the left \u2014 does tend to do that to a person.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuddenly, everybody\u2019s discovered their Judaism,\u201d Bernhard continued, noting that she\u2019d been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/zg-jewish-delis-may-be-dying-but-they-remain-alive-in-our-hearts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bat Mitzvahed<\/a> and went to Hebrew school, but she didn\u2019t seem to agree with anyone defending the state of Israel these days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t feel persecuted,\u201d Bernhard said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, not persecuted perhaps, but there is an anti-Semitism afoot in this country that we haven\u2019t had in a very long time,\u201d a cautious Maher, also Jewish by birth, said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI tell you where it comes from, it comes from the right-wing, the extreme \u2013\u201d Bernhard said, before Maher interjected: \u201cNo, <em>it doesn\u2019t.<\/em>\u201c<\/p>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-container\">\n<p>Is the left leaving Bill Maher behind?<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s anti-Semitism on both sides; the right-wing has the \u2018Jews will not replace us\u2019 nonsense,\u201d he continued, referring to the chant of the white supremacist protesters at the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/photos\/white-nationalists-counterprotesters-clash-charlottesville-49178539\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Unite the Right<\/a>\u201d rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe left wing is even worse,\u201d he added. \u201cThat is coming down from elite colleges who see everything only through a racial lens.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are stupid. They don\u2019t know history. They think everything is about colonizers and racists and how awful America is \u2014 and America has done some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-survival-guide-for-conservatives-during-the-biden-years\/\" title=\"A Survival Guide for Conservatives During the Biden Years\">bad things<\/a>, but to drag Israel into this as the stand in for every bad thing white people ever did, this is not any more complicated to most of these collage kids than \u2018the Palestinians are brown and poor and the Israelis are rich and white,\u2019 even though half of them are not rich and certainly not half are white,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Bernhard was willing to meet Maher on what she thought was halfway, asking, \u201d Can we get on the same page and agree that Benjamin Netanyahu is a s***-disturber and needs to be yanked out of Israel? \u2026 He is solidly to blame for everything that\u2019s happening right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s so not to blame for everything that\u2019s happening. That\u2019s the fault of the Palestinian people and the religion of Islam, which gets lost in all of this,\u201d Maher said. Bernhard looked confused, so he said, \u201cIslam? You\u2019ve heard of it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat does that have to do with \u2013\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou said Netanyahu was mostly to blame,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/must-watch-bill-maher-defends-chiefs-kicker-slams-agitators\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maher<\/a> said. \u201cRight now is happening because, for years, Hamas took aid money and instead of buying food with it and building buildings and hospitals, they bought bombs and made tunnels.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bernhard continued to insist that Netanyahu was the root problem; Maher dropped an uncomfortable truth for her when he noted that the Israeli prime minister is \u201cnot long for the job \u2014 but what everyone who\u2019s been to Israel will tell you, my dear, is that even when he goes, the Israelis are completely for the policy [he\u2019s pursued]. That will not change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>WARNING: The following video contains graphic language that some viewers will find offensive.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CjcPIrfeqsA?si=Cj_m9KmtgZcfUryH\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The sad thing is that this is essentially the unthinking opinion of a wide swath of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/hollywood-stars-wife-played-key-role-international-criminal-courts-arrest-warrant-israeli-leaders\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Hollywood left<\/a>, who are completely cut off from the anti-Semitic culture on their own side by their celebrity. They\u2019ve had the media to assure them in soothing voices that, as much as Republicans are \u201cpouncing\u201d on the activity of a few bad apples on college campuses, the issue is really what some tiki torch marchers did in Virginia seven years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is that the right is willing to disavow the far-right; I know of no conservative who the vast majority of us would hold in good stead that ascribes to those beliefs or gives succor to those who do. On the left, the far-left anti-Semites have become mainstream \u2014 and we have Sandra Bernhard and the like telling us that no, the <em>real<\/em> problem here isn\u2019t Hamas or the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-what-radical-islam-and-the-woke-have-in-common\/\" title=\"WATCH: What Radical Islam And The Woke Have In Common\">campus left<\/a>, but Benjamin Netanyahu. Because <em>of course<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a reason why <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-view-co-hosts-bill-maher-schools-israel-hamas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bill Maher suddenly sounds<\/a> like the sane classical liberal in a room full of raving lefties: That\u2019s because, when it\u2019s a sea of rabid believers on his side of the aisle, it\u2019s not hard to be the normal one.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p><b><i>A Note from Our Deputy Managing Editor:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span>I heard a chilling comment the other day: \u201cWe don\u2019t even know if an election will be held in 2024.\u201d <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>That wasn\u2019t said by a conspiracy theorist or a doomsday prophet. No, former U.S. national security advisor Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn said that to the founder of The Western Journal, Floyd Brown.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Gen. 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Will you <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/subscribe\/?utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><i><span>join us<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>  in the fight? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Sincerely,<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Josh Manning<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Deputy Managing Editor<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Western Journal<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"author-info-44670\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/cillianzeal\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<div>\n<p><label for=\"summary-tab-radio-44670\">Summary<\/label><label for=\"more-info-tab-radio-44670\">More<span> Biographical Information<\/span><\/label><label for=\"posts-tab-radio-44670\">Recent<span> Posts<\/span><\/label><label for=\"contact-tab-radio-44670\" onclick=\"if( typeof grecaptcha=='undefined' ) { let cap_s=document.createElement( 'script' ); cap_s.src='https:\/\/www.google.com\/recaptcha\/api.js?render=6LeJFcsUAAAAAPsIEqvB1EebWbZfqRUe6ebMpGy7'; document.body.appendChild( cap_s ); }\">Contact<\/label><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>C. Douglas Golden is a writer who splits his time between the United States and Southeast Asia. Specializing in political commentary and world affairs, he&#8217;s written for Conservative Tribune and The Western Journal since 2014.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>  C. Douglas Golden is a writer who splits his time between the United States and Southeast Asia. Specializing in political commentary and world affairs, he&#8217;s written for Conservative Tribune and The Western Journal since 2014. Aside from politics, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-leaves-for-delaware-as-russians-prepare-to-take-kyiv\/\" title=\"Joe Biden Leaves for Delaware as Russians Prepare to Take Kyiv\">enjoys spending time<\/a> with his wife, literature (especially British comic novels and modern Japanese lit), indie rock, coffee, Formula One and football (of both American and world varieties). <\/p>\n<p>  Birthplace <\/p>\n<p>  Morristown, New Jersey <\/p>\n<p>  Education <\/p>\n<p>  Catholic University of America <\/p>\n<p>  Languages Spoken <\/p>\n<p>  English, Spanish <\/p>\n<p>  Topics of Expertise <\/p>\n<p>  American Politics, World Politics, Culture <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a compelling commentary on May 29, 2024, at 6:47 am, C. Douglas Golden reflects on Bill Maher&#8217;s unique role as a voice of reason within Hollywood liberalism. 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