“Real Time” host Bill Maher took a swipe at his corporate colleagues at CNN for the network’s non-stop bashing of former President Trump, suggesting it has gotten “boring” even for a Trump hater like himself.
CNN, which has long been plagued with dwindling viewership, has relied on Maher for content over the past several months, more recently deciding to air encore episodes of his HBO show on Saturday nights as both networks are owned by Warner Bros. Discovery.
On Sunday’s installment of his “Club Random” podcast, Maher told former TV anchor Katie Couric that he doesn’t trust “anyone” in the legacy media, including CNN.
“I don’t trust that anyone is giving me the full story. Everyone is giving me their spin on the story, including the places that used to be, I thought, fairly neutral, like CNN and The New York Times, I think, used to be a lot more neutral-“
“You think they’re sort of more activists?” Couric asked.
“Yes,” Maher responded. “You could always slant any story… My earliest memories of my father and me talking about something… I remember him telling me like… the bias comes through somehow, and I remember the examples he used. He said, like, ‘If you say he squawked about it, as opposed to he said.’ Then he said, Robert Kennedy, so this must have been before ‘68 when he was killed. I was definitely under 12. He said, ’Robert Kennedy, if you like him, he is dedicated. If you hate him, he is ruthless.’ But it got worse.”
“And it got to the point where each side thinks they have to load their issues because we can’t really be trusted with both sides because the other side is so powerful and such an existential threat, they both think the other side is an existential threat. We just have to do everything we can – we can’t trust them to make sure they have the one true and correct opinion,” Maher continued.
Couric appeared to defend the media, saying how “things changed so dramatically” because of Trump and blamed him for the erasure of “decorum” and a “level of basic decency” in this country, points that Maher agreed with.
