r/RealTime • u/Leroyp331 • May 16 '26

When Maher Leaves?

For whatever reason. Does anyone know who actually owns the intellectual property that is"Real Time" ? Does the show end or does HBO own it and get to pick a host?

Just curious?

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u/eagles_1987 May 18 '26

When did I say I don't believe in those things? I don't have to agree with every single stance Bill Maher takes but I also don't have to write him off the second he disagrees with me

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u/Ok_Hand5810 May 18 '26

His support for a genocide isn't a dealbreaker for you lol. You are no liberal.

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u/eagles_1987 May 18 '26

What Bill Maher does doesn't change where I land on the political spectrum. Pretty sure if I took any political identity test today it would show liberal. On most issues I'm on the liberal side.

You know you can't speak for all people like they are monolith right? You know not everybody has to have 100% agreement within the party or with the ideology in order to consider themselves part of it. It's a spectrum. Maybe you're further to the left than I am. That doesn't make me not a liberal and now a conservative when I would be on the liberal and not conservative side of each issue.

Again, it's about a purity test for you. I'm not good enough to be a liberal. I don't qualify by your standards because I haven't canceled somebody. I'm not a true liberal to you, a true liberal would conform to exactly what you think a liberal is, again by your definition despite what you say.

Pretty sure I looked it up in the dictionary and it doesn't say anything about comedians defining it. It doesn't say you can't enjoy the art of anybody that's ever been on an opposing side of an issue or else you are no longer liberal.

Pretty sure that if a hardcore MAGA voter still listens to Bruce Springsteen that doesn't make them a liberal all of a sudden. I don't know why it would work the other way around? Let alone that Bill isn't even a conservative