His brain is good. He's still great. Well, here's what I said.
Like when I came back after the strike in September, I said he should get out because he's just lost the faith of people. It's not fair. He's actually done a pretty good job.
But I said he's going to be Ruth Bader Biden. That's the term I use. Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
She stayed too long at the fair. Picture this. A daytime talk show.
Perfect lighting, polished smiles, a studio audience trained to clap on Q like a Pavlov experiment in HD. And then Bill Maher sits down. Nobody in that room knew it yet, but the temperature just shifted because Mar didn't show up to chat.
He didn't show up to charm. He showed up with a scalpel and Joy Behar was already on the operating table. What happened over the next few minutes wasn't a debate.
It wasn't even an argument. It was something the internet hasn't stopped replaying since. A slow, surgical dismantling of an entire media machine, live, uncut, and impossible to spin.
Stick [music] around because by the end of this you'll see exactly why this clip broke the algorithm and why the view may never fully recover from it. I'm nervous about saying anything against Biden because I feel you know not that I have so much power and and you have some more than we than I do obviously but I don't know about that. Are you afraid that you might you know in influence people who are on the fence?
I I think you lose all credibility. I do. I mean my bond with my audience has always been I don't pull a punch.
My bond with my audience is, "You're not going to like everything I say, but you know I'm saying what I really think is true. " Here's the line that ended it before it even started. Joy Behar, without realizing it, admitted the quiet part out loud.
She basically said, "The narrative comes first, the truth catches up later. " And that that's the second the whole illusion cracked. Because once a host tells you the story matters more than the facts, everything that follows is just theater.
Every hot take, every gasp, every eye roll, it all becomes a performance in a play where the ending was written before the curtain even went up. Mah heard it and he didn't blink. He didn't yell.
He just leaned in the way somebody does when they know they've already won. That's the question like what what don't you get? Uh, look, I'm not going to defend Donald Trump ever, but I but I I would never say that we should put the swastika on the cap because I think you can hate Donald Trump.
You can't hate everybody who likes him. It's half the country. I don't want to live in that country.
Then Maher did something almost nobody on late night TV does anymore. He separated the man from the millions. He said, "Hating Trump is fine.
Politics is politics. But treating 70 plus million Americans like their cartoon villains in your personal Marvel movie, that's not analysis. That's cosplay.
And you could feel the entire studio flinch because deep down they know. Everybody at that table knows. You don't win a country by insulting half of it.
You don't earn trust by rolling your eyes at people's real lives. But that's the trap the view built for itself. A golden cage of applause where contempt got mistaken for intelligence.
Mar just walked in and rattled the bars. the school is going to take the side of the kid over the parent. Stuff like that.
Uh there is a lot of crazy stuff on the left. That's I mean this book there's stuff that each side is going to like and probably stuff they're not going to like so much in there because uh that's the answer to the Donald Trump situation is um what's going to get him elected is this woke stuff that a lot of people in this country and here's where it gets brutal. Mah didn't just poke at one host.
He exposed the entire product because the view has one setting. Vo louder gasps, louder claps, louder outrage. But the second anyone actually pushes back, the whole thing folds like a wet napkin.
That's the secret nobody wants to say out loud. Loud isn't the same as sharp. Passionate isn't the same as correct.
And clapping isn't a substitute for logic. Wait for it, because this is the part that really stings. The audience isn't reacting to ideas anymore.
They're reacting to cues. Little emotional dog whistles baked into every segment. And once you see it, oh boy, you can't unsee it.
Every episode starts looking like a magic trick where the rabbit was already in the hat. It's just nothing. And and it's narrative over truth, [clears throat] you know?
I mean, it's not like when I hear people talk on either side of it, I always think they're lying. They're just telling me half of it. Yeah.
And I never trust them anywhere until I check out the other half. But Mar wasn't done. Not even close.
He pulled back the lens way back and aimed at the whole operation. Because this isn't about one host having a bad day. This is about a system, a machine, a carefully engineered outrage assembly line that keeps producing content that hurts the very people it claims to defend.
Think about it. The left has real arguments, solid ones, sometimes devastating ones. But the view keeps repackaging them with so much smuggness, so much sneering, so much we know better than you energy, that even good points start sounding like insults.
And that's not persuasion. That's alienation dressed up as journalism. ever.
We need to stop talking about the things that make Americans different from each other and start honoring the things that make us the same. So, let my people, the Irish, lead the way. Because again, the Irish thing, I don't give a But [applause] I do give a who wins the next election.
An outdated racial pandering is one reason Democrats lose elections. When Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi put on Kent cloth, here's what nobody in that studio wants to admit. Trust doesn't collapse in one night.
It leaks slowly, quietly, segment by segment, one rigged setup at a time. And by the time anyone notices, the audience has already changed the channel. That's what's happening right now in real time to the view.
You can see it in the numbers. You can see it in the clips that go viral for all the wrong reasons. You can see it in the comment sections that used to be safe zones and now look like battlefields.
and Maher, the guy the left is supposed to love, just held up a mirror and said, "Look, look what you've become. That's not a takedown. That's an intervention.
" The liberal group, MoveOn. org, formed in 1998 to urge Republicans to move on from the Clinton impeachment. Today's Democrats should move on from identity politics.
It's not working. [applause] It's not working for them or for us. Democrats are hemorrhaging the very voters they think they're pandering to.
The Financial Times writes, "Democrats are going backwards faster with voters of color than any other demographic. " And suggests the reason is that a less racially divided America is an America where people vote more based on their beliefs than their identity. And then Maher hit the third rail, the one nobody in daytime television is allowed to touch.
identity politics. He didn't dance around it. He didn't soften it.
He said what a lot of people quietly think that the endless slicing of the country into smaller and smaller boxes is not empowerment, it's imprisonment. Because once every single conversation has to be filtered through race, gender, class, symbols, and pronouns, there's no country left. Just a bunch of tribes yelling at each other from behind velvet ropes.
And here's the twist. This isn't a right-wing take. This is coming from a guy who spent 30 years mocking the right.
When your own team star player is calling foul, you don't argue with the ref. You look in the mirror. [applause] Yeah, I got bad news for you.
They don't have a monopoly on stupid. You wear queers for Palestine t-shirts [laughter] and masks 2 years after the pandemic ended. [laughter] And you can't define woman.
I mean person who menstruates. You're the teachers union education party and you've turned schools and colleges into a joke. You just lost a crazy concept.
Now, here's the part that really lands. Mah basically diagnosed the entire modern Democratic messaging problem in one clean punch. The party stopped talking with voters and started talking a te them, lecturing, correcting, wagging fingers like disappointed parents at a dinner table nobody wants to sit at anymore.
And Joy Bahar, she's not the villain here. She's the mascot, the most recognizable face of a much bigger problem. Every time she rolls her eyes at a swing voter, three more of them walk out the door.
You can't scold your way to victory. You can't shame a country into agreeing with you. And you definitely can't win hearts by telling millions of people their own experiences don't count.
That's not politics. That's a permission slip to lose. They also found that voters didn't just want Harris to distance herself from Biden.
They wanted her to distance herself from what they believe the entire Democratic party has become, a Portlandia sketch. [applause] A bunch of privileged mean girls complaining about privilege and trying to make fetch happen. What a shocker that the people who see everything through the lens of race and sex see their election loss as a result of racism and sex.
And this is where Mah lands the shot everyone's still talking about. His real point wasn't that the right is sane. It's that the left has completely lost the ability to laugh at itself.
to question itself, to say the words, "Yeah, that one was crazy. " When its own side goes off the rails, that's the disease, not disagreement, not passion, but the total inability to admit when the team fumbled. The view doesn't do accountability, it does applause, it doesn't do reflection, it does reaction.
And once a show becomes allergic to self-criticism, it stops being a conversation and turns into a cult meeting with better lighting. Boom. Mic drop.
Studio silent. Yes, there's the problem in a nutshell. Because Congressman Molton sounds reasonable to me, but his campaign manager immediately resigned in protest.
Let me make this as plain as I can to the smart people. The campaign manager who resigned. Yeah, let that person go.
Marginalize that guy because as I always say to my woke friends, we voted for the same person. You're just why she lost. And that's this is a case of that.
Wait, what? We voted for the same person, right? You're just why she lost because America hears this and they're going to go, "Bill's right.
8-year-olds can't really make decisions on their own like this. " That's what most people are going to say. And this is where the Democrats are with David Cross living in Brooklyn, uh, with Mandami Loving.
And this is why, you know, we're going to vote for JD Van. So, what actually happened here? This wasn't a fight.
It wasn't even a moment. It was a warning shot. A flare launched over daytime television saying, "Hey, the model is broken.
The audience knows and you're the last ones to figure it out. " Bill Maher didn't destroy Joy Behar. He didn't need to.
He just held the door open and the whole machine walked into it face first. Because when a show becomes famous for outrage instead of insight, for applause instead of accuracy, for narrative instead of nuance, it stops being a talk show and starts being a slow motion apology waiting to happen. The view isn't losing to conservatives, it's losing to itself.
And Mah just made it impossible to ignore. So, the real question isn't, did Mah win? The real question is, how much longer can a show survive when the audience finally sees the strings?
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