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The topics covered on Bill Maher‘s Real Time on Friday were no laughing matter –
inflation, crime, the suppression of free speech, the war in Ukraine,
antisemitism on campus.

One area of special interest was when the talk turned to crime. Guest Jane
Ferguson, an award-winning special correspondent for PBS NewsHour, contributor
to The New Yorker, and author of the book No Ordinary Assignment, was randomly
attacked on a New York subway.

Her fellow panelist, John Avlon, senior political analyst and anchor at CNN and
the former editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast, noted how “we brought down crime
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Maher then made a somewhat surprising confession, bringing up Jason Aldean’s
song Try That In A Small Town, a country anthem that dares miscreants to try
various antisocial activities and “see how far ya make it down the road.”

“I ain’t mad at it,” Maher said of the song, adding that “I wish we could have
that in big cities,” with the caveat that “crime in red states is just as high.”

Earlier, Maher had a one-on-one with Greg Lukianoff, president and CEO of the
Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) and coauthor of The
Canceling of the American Mind.

Maher probed him on the rise of campus antisemitism. While the host backed the
right of groups to call for an Intifada (“one of those vague terms,” he said)
and the chant “From the river to the sea,” he drew a line on the promise “by any
means necessary. Now I’m kind of peeing my pants. So where do you draw the line
on this?”

His guest said that things were starting to cross the line to true threats. He
said it was “embarrassing” seeing college leaders not being able to define an
answer.

Maher also lamented the stifling of free speech on the campuses. “We all seem to
be resigned to it, squelching a thought,” he said. As for the people advocating
for more suppression, “You owe us for all the thoughts that never got uttered,
all the jokes that never were told.”

In his “New Rules” editorial, Maher took on the grinches who attack charitable
actions by the likes of MrBeast, the online philanthropist who has backed
projects from drinking wells in Africa to restoring orphanages.

“How did we get to this weird place?” Maher raged. “That positive difference in
the world makes you the problem?”





He gave several other examples of people trying to help the disabled, and
getting criticized for those efforts.

“Let me take this moment to go on the record,” he said. “If I am blind, deaf or
paralyzed, don’t praise me – fix me!”

He asked, “When Adele lost weight, she betrayed the unhealthy?”

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 * Anonymous on December 8, 2023 11:19 pm
   
   Maher is wrong about crime un small towns: Pine Bluff, Arkansas’s violent
   crime rate is almost 3x New York’s (20.5 to 7.4), and the national average is
   5.6. NYC is pretty safe, as are the majority of big cities. Although blue
   cities do better than red.
   
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 * Anonymous on December 8, 2023 10:56 pm
   
   I didn’t realize Bill was such a hypocrite on free speech.
   
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 * Stan on December 8, 2023 10:17 pm
   
   This is America he has “Free Speech’. You don’t have to have agree with him.
   I don’t criticizing is stupid . So I am exercising my free speech with that
   commit. I also think this country has lost its since of humor. Cancel culture
   has made this country paranoid.
   
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 * Anonymous on December 8, 2023 9:16 pm
   
   He’s still doing that show with a small brain. It tracks.
   
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   * Anonymous on December 8, 2023 11:01 pm
     
     Thank you for your contribution, keyboard warrior. When you create a show
     of your own, remind me not to watch.
     
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 * No on December 8, 2023 9:08 pm
   
   The irony here of Maher saying *he* doesn’t have a problem with it. Also? Not
   every f-ing person in the deaf population wants or needs to be “fixed.” Same
   with other so-called disabilities. If he any idea about anything, he’d know
   that.
   
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