Bill Maher Causes Heartbreak Defending Ron DeSantis, Shredding 'Liberal Media' Over COVID Misinfo

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Bill Maher Causes Heartbreak Defending Ron DeSantis, Shredding 'Liberal Media' Over COVID Misinfo
By Sister Toldjah | Apr 17, 2021 8:30 AM ET


I can only stomach watching Bill Maher about a couple of times a year (if that much), but every once in a while something he says makes national headlines, and then when you read or watch it you discover that he was actually spot-on about an issue for a change.

Such was the case Friday night after the latest episode of his “Real Time” program aired. During one segment, Maher noted the fact that the liberals who were supposed to be so well-informed about coronavirus facts, in reality, had gotten a lot of things about wrong in their rush to blame Republican governors for the outbreak:

    Maher then pointed to a Gallup survey that showed the vast majority of Democrats incorrectly overestimate the probability of being hospitalized from COVID, with 41 percent believing it’s at least 50 percent while only 10 percent of Democrats correctly said that the probability is only 1-to-5 percent while 26 percent of Republicans said the same, stressing that Democrats were “wildly off on this key question.”

    “[Democrats] also have a greatly exaggerated view of the danger of COVID to and the mortality rate among children, all of which explains why today the states with the highest share of schools that are still closed are all blue states,” Maher lamented. “So if the right-wing media bubble has to own things like climate change denial, shouldn’t liberal media have to answer for ‘How did your audience wind up believing such a bunch of crap about COVID?'”

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[mountaineer]

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[Cyber Liberty]

Maher is an idiot if he thinks he had nothing to do with spreading a false panic.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

He's on a role. I give him respect in that he is often able to go after his own side on a few issues. Most of these clowns won't do that.

[dfwgator]

He's on a role. I give him respect in that he is often able to go after his own side on a few issues. Most of these clowns won't do that.

Screw him.     He wanted the economy to tank to get rid of Trump.  Now that Trump is gone, he thinks we care what he thinks about anything?

[Cyber Liberty]

Screw him.     He wanted the economy to tank to get rid of Trump.  Now that Trump is gone, he thinks we care what he thinks about anything?

He also wanted people to die to further that goal.  He was atop the anti-Hydroxychloroquine bandwagon, like Neil Cavuto.

[skeeter]

Maher just senses the shift in the wind and wants to get out in front. Besides, it’s always cool just to throw spitballs - you can never held accountable for anything you’ve said in the past.

He gets zero extra points for stumbling upon the truth.