[Edward64]

Originally Posted by Sweed

Unfortunately some of the loud voices on the far left have decided Maher isn't really a liberal due to his comments like the one you quoted.

True. To his defense, he does say below.

I don't agree with everything he says but on immigration, I do agree.

“I haven’t turned. Yes, people have said to me, ‘You made fun of the left more than you used to,’ and guilty, I have, because the left has changed,” Maher told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria during a sit-down interview.

Maher, the host of HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher,” admitted in the interview that both the left and the right have transformed. But, he argued, the Republican Party is “even worse” than the Democrats.

“I mean, the right doesn’t believe in democracy anymore. I mean, they’ve thrown their lot in with a sociopath named Donald Trump, who only thinks elections count when we win,” Maher said, referring to former President Trump’s unsubstantiated claims of election fraud in the 2020 election. “OK, well, that’s worse.”

“But it’s not like the left hasn’t changed also,” he added. “So I’m going to call it out wherever I see it.”

Maher then went on to list issues he sees with “gender and race and free speech” as well as communism, border patrol and police abolition efforts.

“No, it’s not that I’ve gotten old, it’s that your ideas are stupid,” he said.