Some people on the left are very angry with Bill Maher for meeting with President Trump at the White House earlier this month. Maher made it clear that he is not joining the MAGA movement any time soon, but that’s not good enough for them.
Left wing actor Larry David even wrote an insulting piece for the New York Times suggesting that Bill Maher had dinner with Hitler. The piece was as rude to Maher as it was to Trump and his supporters.
Over on CNN, Scott Jennings broke down what this is really all about. The left is trying to send a message to anyone who might take a cue from Maher and try actually talking to Trump and conservatives. They want to make it clear that they will punish anyone who does this.
Partial transcript via the Daily Wire:
“The message of this is not to — because Bill Maher, first of all, I totally agree, he’s totally in the right to do it,” Jennings began, saying that while he certainly disagreed with Maher on a wide range of political issues, he felt the HBO host was right to encourage dialogue with people who have different political views. “I loved his monologue, even thought I disagree with almost everything he believes politically, he ws right to do this and he was right to speak out about it.”
“But this isn’t about that dinner. It’s about the next one,” Jennings continued. “Because this is the modern Left. It’s an attempt always to intimidate people into not ever doing it again. It’s to silence yourselves, or we’ll do it for you. That’s the purpose of this op-ed, so that the next comedian, or the next person on the American left chooses not to speak to Donald Trump.”
“This isn’t — this is all an effort to get people not to do what you just said, which is to talk to each other and our political leaders,” he concluded.
See the clip below:
NEW: Scott Jennings says Larry David’s attack on Bill Maher wasn’t about dinner—it was the modern left threatening the next person into silence.
Larry David just dropped a venom-laced op-ed in the New York Times titled “My Dinner With Adolf,” unleashing on Bill Maher for one… pic.twitter.com/qcmvvKlw58
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The left demands ideological purity and will attack anyone who strays from their camp, especially people they perceive as part of their coalition. It’s why they are especially harsh with minorities who are conservative.