A fellow D.U.er friend was defending Bill Maher

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17. And that's fine!

It sounds like you had a healthy, perfectly reasonable discussion. There’s nothing more American.

My vigilant defense of Bill Maher is mostly a reaction to the extra vitriol he seems to receive here. It’s the same hate that’s also reserved for Senator John Fetterman. It’s silly. The moderate wing of the party is as large (if not larger - it fluctuates), as the progressive wing. I can only shake my head with a smile at the bull$h!t hurled weekly at Bill, that would never, NEVER be tolerated if said about sacred cows like Maddow, Colbert, AOC, Sanders, Mamdani, et al.

I know this is a progressive-leaning site, but Dean or Kucinich weren’t nominated in 2004; Sanders wasn’t nominated in 2016; he along with Warren didn’t come close in 2020; and again in 2024, though… that doesn’t really count as it was weird. But that should tell you where the party is.

So you don’t like Bill Maher, great. Don’t watch him. And then don’t comment on him. And I’ll do the same with Rachel Maddow and her interesting… “theories.” Or Oliver and Colbert’s brand of humor. And we’ll all get along better looking ahead to next year!