Despite histrionics from the left over Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter, including woke staffers at the social media company, true proponents of free speech have emphasized the inherent necessity of the First Amendment including HBO’s Bill Maher who decried the overly sensitive culture that led to the demand for “a new sheriff.”
During Friday’s “Real Time” panel, Maher was joined by MSNBC’s Ali Velshi and former Sen. Doug Jones (D-Ala.) where, among other topics, they discussed the billionaire’s recent acquisition. His progressive guests claimed to be in favor of the First Amendment while defending focused censorship on the platform particularly as it pertained to anonymous users, but Maher took a different tact.
“The argument to me is, has Twitter failed in setting themself up in the past as the judge of what can go out there? And I would say yes, you have. You failed when you threw the New York Post off of Twitter for talking about Hunter Biden’s emails. And it turned out that was a real story. You failed when you said we couldn’t read about whether COVID had come from a lab. You failed!” Maher said.
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(Video: Real Time with Bill Maher)
Bringing up marks against The Babylon Bee, which Maher claimed to have never heard of and described as the “Christian version of The Onion,” the comedian defended their right to satire as he called out the Twitter censors for lacking self-awareness.
“‘Sensitive content,’ Twitter said. In the video, they were making fun of Twitter for being too sensitive. This is so ‘Through the Looking Glass!'” he said.
Elon Musk laughs at video mocking Twitter employee meltdown that was flagged for sensitive content https://t.co/F1Z5ZQmTmY pic.twitter.com/WQdRx1DbyU
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Maher described the video where a Twitter employee seeks counseling after experiencing trauma from Musk’s purchase of the company. “If he buys our free speech platform, people will be able to have free speech on our platform,” she says in the skit.
“This is well within what satire has always been,” Maher continued. “And the fact that they flagged this for being insensitive shows their complete lack of self-awareness about what their own problem is. If that’s where the line is, you have failed Twitter. You do need a new sheriff.”
He later went on to say, “Twitter could be a place where you might see an opinion that you didn’t formerly consider, and we need that desperately in America,” before calling out former President Barack Obama for suggesting Generation Z has the capability to sort out these problems as he pushes efforts to combat “disinformation.”
“I’d much rather have Elon Musk making the rules than a 23-year-old who can’t take the joke on Babylon Beeswax, or whatever the f*ck that is,” Maher expressed. “I mean, this is a generation that doesn’t know what the word ‘violence’ means. They think ‘violence’ means ‘anything I don’t like.’ Their standard of free speech is ‘I’m uncomfortable.’ That’s not where the standard is, right?”
“Civics doesn’t exist anymore,” he expressed, decrying the state of education in America. “They don’t know … ‘Free speech? What the f*ck does that mean? It hurt my feelings.’ That’s what matters to them. That’s what I worry about. I mean, I hear it all the time.”
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Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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10 thoughts on “‘You failed!’ Maher takes Twitter to the woodshed over Hunter Biden laptop story, COVID lab theory”
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Who gives a ratsass about anything that Bill Maher has to say. Last time I checked, I don’t watch his show or listen to anything he has to say.
True. However, it is interesting to see how he waffles from one question to the next. He’s been on the right track lately, but there’s always tomorrow.
The left NEVER gives examples, They make excuses and spew insinuendos that go unchallenged as if they are fact.
a different tacK T A C K
This phrase comes from sailboat racing, where tacking is the way a sailboat goes partially into the wind. A sailboat can choose to go slightly to the left (port) of the wind or slightly to the right (starboard) of the wind. For example, when the wind is from the north, then a sailboat might choose to go about 40 degrees west of north (a “port tack) or about 40 degrees east of north (a starboard tack). If you want to go directly into the wind, you actually have to to take a tack on one side of the wind, then the other side.
In a sailboat race, when they need to sail into the wind, it might be faster to take a port tack followed by a starboard tack, or it might be faster to take a starboard tack followed by a port tack, and two boats might decide to tack in different ways.
So the phrase “to take a different tack” means to go in a different path to get to the same goal.
Feelings are irrelevant
The consummate arrogance that Twitter and other social media platforms demonstrated during the 2020-presidential campaign can’t be relegated to its and their having “failed”. They did enormous harm to the United States and that is demeaned by an academic discussion that reduces it to a “well, you bad!”
Yes, great statements towards freedom. Awesome. But why have you waited until the tide is finally turning? We cannot believe that you just learned about the laptop and the info suppression that was necessary for B to win the presidency. Suggest to yourself that you really want to hang out with us because the Left’s route is towards insanity. Look at their leaders! Look at their followers! Come on over and hang with the Adults in the Room.
Like so many others, Maher is NOW, after the damage is done putting the radical left in charge of our nation, is speaking the truth. Afterall, he has weathered so much criticism and negative tweets himself, people need to thicken their skins and take the truth or a joke. But to have known and ignored the Steele report, Hunter’s laptop, and the Wuhan Lab is on him.
These stories are over a year and a half, and, 2 years old, Maher, so, why did you wait so long to state your unhappiness with the cover ups for them? Is it because the left that you
ve so long supported is now in such disrepute that even your mindless followers are leaving it? Too late, as, you have no integrity, just the desire to maintain your shows ratings!What happened to the font?
(It’s really getting old with the screen kicking out to a video when I’m trying to concentrate on the posts!)