In response to his new gig at CNN, some were quick to take aim at Bill Maher’s contentious political views. “Bill Maher is obsessed with this idea that ‘cancel culture is out of control,'” MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan wrote on Twitter. “Yet Maher himself just got a new CNN gig, despite saying outrageous things about Muslims, Arabs, and trans people; making crass jokes about Asians; & using the N-word on TV.” In 2014, CNN actually published a piece about Maher’s views on Muslims, noting that actor Ben Affleck found them abhorrent when he appeared on “Real Time.” Other netizens tried their hand at comedy in response to the news, with one person snarkily tweeting, “It’s about time someone gave an old, rich, white man a platform to complain about everything.”
But Maher views himself as the guy who is brave enough to roast both sides of the political aisle. And if his left-leaning fans feel like he’s started targeting their views more, he says it’s because they’ve given him more material. “The oath of office I took was to comedy,” he said on “Real Time.” Maher also boasted, “I’m a hero at Fox these days,” which appears to be true based on the number of pieces published by the outlet regarding the comedian’s “cancel culture” rants.
While CNN’s move has many rolling their eyes, Chris Licht might be on to something: When Maher appeared on Chris Cuomo’s show in 2021, it received a significant boost in ratings.
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