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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Do you suppose Maher is part of the problem Taibbi sees, or part of the solution?  |
Neither. Maher has not "picked a side" thoroughly. He's all over the map.
To truly be part of the problem, one must prosthelytize or accept most, if not almost all, of one side's views. Maher is too much of a heretic on too many important issues to be embraced by either side. He's anti-Trump, pro-environment, feminist, and socially more liberal than 99.99% of people. But he's also intolerant of religion, anti-woke, and absolutist on free speech trumping the interests of those who feel hurt by it.
Maher hasn't accepted and parroted the adequate number of their virtues to fit on the left or right. In fact, he shits on a bunch of them every week for a living. So no. He's not part of the problem. He's part of the solution.
(On a side note, I'd wager Taibbi isn't on Maher's show anymore because Maher has been a strident Russiagate investigation proponent. They definitely do not see eye to eye on that. But the nice thing about Maher is, when he's wrong, he'll admit it. Mueller came up snake eyes and Maher's response was, "Ok, we lost on that... but we'll catch him on something else soon enough." And he was right. He's also admitted over and over that the only way to nail Trump is in an election. That impeachment is a waste of time. Counter that to most of media which followed Russiagate assiduously and flipped out when Mueller came up with an underwhelming report. Counter that with Maddow, who hasn't apologized for her conspiracy theories once.)
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