Bill Maher has some good thoughts and discussions on his show “Real Time.”
This weekend, he had a few. He took aim at Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who spoke in favor of giving illegal immigrants down-payment assistance so they can buy homes. She also said she wanted to get them all “documented,” which sounds like she was saying the still part about the Democratic agenda out deafening.
He then also made fun of parts of Kamala Harris’ CNN interview, noting that she had “three bad years.”
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But he made some more compelling comments, this time to people talking about voter fraud. As we know, that became a taboo on social media, and if you said something like that, you might be suppressed. Maher spoke out against such censorship, as our friends at Townhall observed.
He spoke in the context of the arrest of Telegram founder Pavel Durov in France and the concern that the ponderous hand that was used in that case and in countries like Brazil – where X is blocked – would be used again here and against the people behind the platforms, like Elon Musk.
Bill Maher believes Americans should have the right to claim the election was rigged:
Bill Maher: “Trump was off Twitter for a long time before Elon brought him back on Twitter. It was kind of like excluding Pete Rose from the Hall of Fame.
Can you say if you are a Republican or … pic.twitter.com/t7MWhu3LmU— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) 31 August 2024
Maher pleaded for freedom of expression. “Can you as a Republican or a Bolsonaro supporter say: ‘The election was stolen’? That is my opinion. [sic]. I think you can and you should be able to. That’s still an opinion. That’s still free speech.”
Political commentator and Columbia professor John McWhorter, who took part in the discussion, said you can make “exceptions” for scarce things – and Trump is one of those exceptions. But “exceptions” are just excuses to censor people you want to silence, like the left did with Trump. McWhorter said the elite shouldn’t censor what they don’t like, but that’s exactly what has happened on Twitter in the past, including the censorship of Trump.
While there was censorship of Trump and others, when Democrats like Stacey Abrams asked questions about the election, the tables were not reversed. There was always a double standard.
This problem has only eased somewhat since Elon Musk bought X. Other websites are still prone to these issues.
The panel also discussed Mark Zuckerberg’s revelations and his “mea culpa” regarding pressure from the Biden-Harris administration to censor COVID information they didn’t like.
Bill Maher and the panel report on Mark Zuckerberg’s admission that Facebook was pressured by the Biden administration to censor content:
Bill Maher: “He [Mark Zuckerberg] wrote to Jim Jordan and made a sort of admission of guilt for what had happened a few years ago. He wrote that his team… pic.twitter.com/7Nbok9UfN6— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) 31 August 2024
Zuckerberg’s speaking out now may not be because he is enlightened on free speech, as Puck’s Peter Hamby noted. “To me, this letter to Jim Jordan is also just Zuckerberg wagging his finger, saying, ‘Trump might win, so we want to be on the right side of Republican politics.'”
That’s certainly likely, but it also tells you where they think things might be going. Zuckerberg is reading the signs in the wind and trying to hedge his bets.
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Maher is right, of course, and that is precisely what this current battle that actually unites Trump, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Elon Musk and others is about: the fight against authoritarian control.
