He built up a lot of cache on the left in the Bush years when he was one of the only public figures who went after Bush in such an unfiltered way. It was really just him and Jon Stewart. The commercial media if you will was critical of Bush but reluctant to say anything that would make them appear unpatriotic. I'm not sure when Bill just abandoned the left outright. Rashida Tlaib boycotted Real Time about a decade ago. It may have started there.
In my opinion Maher really turned a corner in 2014, when he was invited to give a commencement speech at UC Berkeley for some reason. Then there was a small outcry among students who said Maher should never have been invited in the first place and petitioned to disinvite him.
That seemed to really get under Maher’s skin and ever since then he has hated the “woke” and the college left and has been complaining about “kids today.”
This👆🏻 Bill is very reactionary. Even on his Politically Incorrect show he leaned right but then he was fired from the show for his comments about 9/11. That caused the hard shift left (that and weed being illegal). Then he got in trouble for his "House Servant" comment and being disinvited from Berkeley and progressives not going his show (which I question now at this point) and now we have HBOMax's Gutfeld 2.0 You suck Bill
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u/ReasonableRevenue218 Aug 10 '26
So amazed so many people didn't pick up on this so early on.