85% of Bill Maher's guests since Oct 7 are white; none are Muslim

It's no surprise he doesn't like Muslims, but this level of bias is extreme.

Since October 7, Bill Maher has had 74 guests on. None of the guests have been Muslim or of Palestinian background. None except Ro Khanna, Matt Duss and Killer Mike, have publicly called for a ceasefire in Gaza (as best as I can tell). Of the 76 guests, 63 have been white (85%), 8 black (11%), and 3 brown (one of them Fareed Zakaria).

The guest list has included hard-right Zionists like Jordan Peterson, Andy Murray, Scott Galloway, Dean Phillips, David Mamet, Ted Cruz, Ann Coulter, Batya Ungar-Sargon, RFK Jr., Kellyanne Gonway, Andrew Cuomo and many more. I can’t keep track.

The lack of diversity in both ethnicity and viewpoint is appalling. I suppose this should not be a surprise because when he does get someone who knows the issue, he gets shredded like here by Glenn Greenwald, so it’s best to “debate” amongst friends who you know share the same viewpoint as you on the Middle East.

Now if Newsmax had pulled a lineup like this out I would not have batted an eye, but here we have a self-professed liberal who claims to bridge the conversation between opposing point of views. Someone who claims to “tell it like it is” yet here he is silencing anti-war voices, and anyone critical of Israel’s foreign policy. This should not be a surprise but it still stings as I have watched Real Time (on and off) over the years and have enjoyed the conversations as it related to US politics, especially the Trump years. To see this show completely silence one side, while claiming to espouse the values of liberalism, is disappointing.

I should have expected no different given that when he had Netanyahu on his show, he didn’t ask him a single meaningful question opting to go for softballs. He publicly professes to be on “Team Israel” (whatever that means) which is odd for a person who claims to be open-minded. Most recently, he’s only criticized the college protests and labelling them as anti-semitic despite Jews being overrepresented in the protests. He’s called them violent and dangerous despite violence being virtually non-existent, and when it does happen, it’s from Zionists, like in UCLA. For a liberal to completely ignore the parallels between the current college protests, the Vietnam protests, South Africa protests, and the Civil Rights movement, while choosing to lump it all in the anti-semitism bucket is at best stupid, and at worst, intellectually dishonest.

Bill Maher’s downfall has been slow and painful, and there have been a few milestones along the way which stand out. His interview with Marianne Williamson where he thought everything was fine because he doesn’t see anything wrong with America “when he’s driving around” speaks to the bubble he lives in. Or when he didn’t respect Steve O’s (former addict) request to not drink in front of him during his podcast appearance. Or any of these 60+ reasons. The most ridiculous one is when he trots around the same-old trope about Islam being a dangerous religion and puts up that ONE FREAKING PICTURE EVERY TIME:

Actually, now that I think about it, he’s been awful for so long that I don’t remember when he’s been good. I suppose he gained himself a reputation by calling the 911 attackers “brave” which he got fired for from ABC, but even back then he was a condescending and smug. I suppose the best indictment of Bill Maher comes from the late-great Norm MacDonald and Bill Burr: