Working on a documentary about religion just got back from Tel Aviv. The number of rightwing religious ZEALOTS that are there calling for - literally - “wiping out ALL Palestinians including Children” is TERRYFYING. Netanyahu has members in his OWN cabinet that are calling for “nuking” Gaza, AND Netanyahu himself talked of the importance of making a new “Nakba” (terror campaign) against the people in Gaza to force them to leave. SOME of us are *consistent with criticizing religion, including Islam, Judaism, and Christianity… Don’t be me started the Christian version of Sharia Law. It is ABSOLUTELY embarrassing that Bill Maher - of ALL people - chooses to let his brain stop working with regards to criticizing Netanyahu’s regime in Israel! Not counting the terrifying interviews you will get to see in our documentary. there are COUNTLESS videos you can find online RIGHT NOW, of Israel’s rightwing religious NUTS calling for the death of ALL Palestinians, and the fact that Bill Maher REFUSES to mention, much less criticize them is an absolute embarrassment. After all these years of defending him against religious apologists, millions of us now realize, he really IS a biased bigot. And when I look at all the DEAD and starving kids suffering in Gaza, what Maher really is, is a villain.
When I saw that, I thought, "Ugh - I hate headline writers." Then the clip made it clear why. At least here it's comedy being labeled that way, but, then again, that's where this trend started and look how far it's gone.
Years ago I watched 2 hours of news everyday and I realized how angry I was becoming. I had two little kids and I remember saying to myself - Is this how I want them to remember me? I stopped watching the propaganda news and felt a lot better. It's like a drug.
I don't even turn on broadcast television anymore and I'm always shocked at how stupid it is when I go to someone's house where it just runs in the background all day long.
What news do you read/watch? People say this about MSM all of the time but never say where they get their news from. I really want to know. NOT being a jerk.
My parents had the news on. In the car it was AM radio At home channel flipping 4p, 5p, 6p, 7p, took a break for prime time hours 8p to 11p then back to the news till bed time and started again at 6a until they got work. Holidays was a political argument I hated it and hung out in my room or friends. As young adult I only watch the weather part. I lived a very clueless rosey trustful non stressful life. For the past 10 years, my socialization is the news and social media and it is stressful to see and be aware of all the BS. I miss the clueless lifestyle Even disconnecting doesn't erase the BS roaming the streets.
I'm a retired reporter and noticed when reporters and editors quit reporting and editing and became 'journalists' the 'news' suddenly became theater for clicks.
American Media USED to be the 4th WALL. Now it has gone to shit, because of bribes, payouts and political/alphabet soup agendas. NO ONE trusts the American Mass Media media. I used to be Public Affairs for the Air Force. I was forced to LIE, EVERYDAY.
And Bill is just an extension of that "newstainment." I also went to school for journalism and practice it daily. Bill, however, is a HACK, just like the people he exposes. Oh, the irony.
That line is amusing until it happens to you or to someone you love. That’s the thing with Bill Maher. I don’t think anything devastating has ever happened to the guy or perhaps not to his family either.
I'm 69 years old and miss the days of Walter Cronkite when news divisions of television were NOT allowed to focus on making a profit. Then the wall came down between news and entertainment and the news industry on television died.
WC delivered the CIA talking points. The Vietnam War was won but lost by media and Democrats not to mention Jane F. A Chinese General wrote in his book that they were finished.
Reagan broke the news by destroying the Fairness Doctrine. I'm close to your age and worked as a news producer. I'm horrified by the news in silos. I trust NONE OF THEM!
Thank you Bill. 4 years ago I wasn't a fan. I was stuck in the information box you described. What I find myself relying on these days is, your thought process and take on what's happening around and to us. I find you opinion well thought out, logical and above all, SANE. You don't shy away from guests with (sometimes extremely) different opinions and always speak your truth. You've shown me that people can indeed change. I did. I'm a Fan.
Same. Every time I watch him I'm thinking "wow, didn't know Mahr was this based. (then he spirals into the trump derangement stuff) Oh. There he is." He has always been somewhat enjoyable to watch, but much more these days.
Orangeman lost me with the 💉 😷 however those who call him a certain Austrian painter...tell me one single policy that hurt you personally, you can't, there's no there there
Ahh, that’s why that is there. I was actually really wary, because I try to avoid any video with that word in the title and was rather unpleasantly surprised to see this old and embarrassing tactic from BM. Good to know he didn’t sink to that low. 😂
Bill, I can’t believe how much I am enjoying your short clips. It is telling me one thing. You are not a modern day democrat or republican. You are an American.
🚩Bill & legacy media need to stop the lie & the manipulation 🤦♀️ Since Camp David, the Palestinian official Authority has recognized Israel as an independent state. Yet, the Israeli government has NEVER recognized Palestine as an independent state. 🤷♀️ Yes, non-office Palestinian extremists & terrorists refuse to recognize Israel, but at the same token, Israeli extremeists & terrorists refused to recognize Palestine! Perhaps the main difference here is that some Israeli extremists actually work as officials within the current Israeli government, e.g. Itamar Ben Gvir, Bezalel Smotrich, & Yariv Levin!🤷♀️
Not always. Are there many news outlets prone to attention grabbing headlines? Yes. But to lump them in with social media politicos of the left or right, w.hose every thumbnail implies some major "got you" moment or turning point has been reached, isn't right. There are still journalists out there doing serious work. His comments should reflect that.
this so called 'independent' media have a motivation to badmouth mainstream news. they need more people to switch to watching them instead, so THEY get more rating, while they are also just as biased, just as politically filtered, just as lacking in nuance.
I am having a hard time trying to find good journalism nowadays. Every news coverage is so superficial, reporters act like characters in a reality show, there are no news reports nor journalist researchers anymore, just people talking as outsiders, usually with a noticeable bias; meaning they are picking easy subjects. Interviews are all in starvation from hard, deep questions. And you will probably be better informed from late shows and standup comedy than from "news" channels. Journalism is dead... Money killed it.
Yeah, students have no time for protesting. They want a good education so they can make the most money to buy the biggest vehicles and televisions. Materialism is what brought down my generation. We went from "He ain't heavy, he's my brother" to pull yourself up by your own boot straps. We are not a Christian nation as the alleged Christians claim.
Were you an adult back then? These were mere "fog of war" mistakes. Most of it they DID get right. Also, Bill is now a Republican. Let's discuss, shall we? 😉
If you think he nails it again that means you thought he nailed it before so why would you never think you would say again that he nailed it I don't get this sentence :(
@@victorcoleman949only to the truly uneducated. What university did you graduate from? What branch of the military did you serve in? Child, have you considered community college? 😂
As a reporter, retired now after over 30 years of doing it, Maher is spot-on with this analysis, especially media corporately-owned or at the national level. These days it is ratings and revenue, and precious little else. I usually try to sample several different media outlets; print, broadcast and occasionally cable. But far too many want what they want to hear and see, and they find it on the internet. Heaven help us all.
@@leviashanken2506 but Maher spared the left as often as he could and pandered to them. Still is, just a little less now. He goes Vote Blue No Matter Who every election Its boring and obvious
Maher is talking to his petit bourgeoisie audience in the manner the morons deserve. Newsflash kiddies, while Billy is trying to make it sound as if 'Yellow Journalism' is something new, it's been and is being studied to this very day by more learned members of society than his audience apparently. It's been studied for well over a century now in the precise sense of the word. He'll tell you he's not a journalist, but one knows he aspires to punditry in the Will Rogers style. Having said that, he in fact has become, who he is mocking, only in a much less palatable manner. He's calling his fellow pundits out for something he's doing himself. Then again, rather than him being just another garden variety opportunist, he might just be someone totally ignorant about his hypocrisy. Shred that.
I stopped watching the news about 8 years ago because it just made me angry, paranoid or depressed about all of the crazy shootings, endless war, awful disasters and entrenched government corruption that I couldn’t do anything to stop!
74 year old black Vietnam veteran. Damn Bill ! There you go with that logic shit. As far as news, Uncle Walter is GOD. Now, news is what comes out the north end of a south bound bull. Cronkite cared about the truth. He's the reason I took news broadcast in college.
How does being black make what u said more relevant? Why do blacks always feel they have to say..., black man here 😂 like it makes their comment more valid
Except for..... Vietnam, he was wrong and completely ignorant. He was tired of War, Who Isn't but if you want something to end make sure YOU get the Complete Facts, without personal biases influencing you. The U.S. after the "Tet Offensive" was actually in it's Best position for victory. Read N.Vietnam General Giap. ".... the Battle of Tet, you defeated us" "We knew it, we thought you knew it. But we were elated to notice your media was Helping us. They were causing more disruption in America than we could in the Battlefields. We were ready to surrender. You had won. General Giap has published his memoirs and confirmed what most Americans knew the Vietnam War was not lost in Vietnam ----- it lost at home. The press corps has its own Sons and Daughter's Blood on their hands.... The battle for Hearts and Minds.... Heart's and Minds ☝️ I have respect for Mr. Cronkite but like everyone else he has his failures and him not being exposed for his failures with Vietnam (especially Tet) have shown me how much the press is in control. I used to believe him like everyone else, Hook, Line and Sinker, but this time in his career, this time in history showed me was wrong and how THAT Didn't Matter it was what he and his cohorts thought.
I almost didn't watch this video because of the title, but the joke was on us! The biggest turnoff for me is when people label everything "INSTANTLY" or "IMMEDIATELY" as if the long and arduous process of what is actually going on can be summarized in a viral clip. It's catering to the culture of "I know I'm right, so let's confirm that again, and please do all my thinking for me."
@@jlev1028hey genius. Scroll up and read what he wrote again. And then read it again. And then again. And then try harder at putting together a calm coherent thought that's relevant. Reading comprehension is an important skill
I've never seen any students in fear of school shooters at their university or students pushing gun control either. Yet, the media portrays them as a huge voting bloc.
For media, bad news makes money and gets viewership. There's also a difference between facts and a truth. I could, for example, cite a fact, like, you're twice as likely to die eating pork when the truth would cite that a certain small part of the total population has that risk. The news isn't a lie, but rather taking a truth and stretching it to scare people into overreacting. That's basically what news is.
@@spaceknight793 Can you name one news anchor that wants to go back to 50 corporations that gave us news instead of the 6 corporations that give us information? Where is this activism from the media?
It's been that way for a long, long time. I wish the US would join the rest of the western world where public colleges and universities are tuition free.
Nah it will be how do they get a house. How do they afford groceries and gas. Since Biden took office cost of living has skyrocketed, more than Trump even said it would
@@sandrasuitt6439 I may be a cynical old fuddy duddy but even I know never to give out real names or other identifying information on the internet. With four numbers at the end of your name, you must be fairly new to youtube, so this tip is free : *_Privacy legislation can neither prevent nor correct user error. Keep your data close, keep your identity closer._*
I live in a college neighborhood. There has not been a protest, march, sign, bumper sticker, keffiyeh, or chant. They just go to class, internship, study, and have the usual weekend party.
That's why I prefer to get my news directly from wires like AP and Reuters, or European outlets such as DW. At least I know there's no slant. Are they perfect? No. But at least they don't have an agenda, like the cable news outlets in the states.
So true Bill. I was a News Photographer for 30+ years. When I first got hired, it was in a small TV MARKET but back then, you had to work your way up getting jobs in bigger markets. Getting into the bigger markets made you more money. So, when I started the NEWS is what was reported. I finally got to 1 of the larger markets, Houston. It meant more money but I was closer to home and that was a big plus. I saw how the NEWS got more artificial and how it got away from reporting facts and giving stories a 'SLANT' to influence viewers. That's when I retired. People that decided what stories would be reported that day would only do ones helpful to them. So I said ADIOS because I thought it was unprofessional to mislead viewers. I'll always remember a saying that would be used very often "IF IT BLEEDS, IT LEADS".
@@Ho11is2Ho11ywoodeveryday I watch people constantly being hypnotized by the news. I don't think these people care with the facts are especially if what they are watching supports their belief system. I always double check the information and so so many times it's incorrect.
It's really disturbing how easily over half the public is manipulated by media. They present a story, show only the facts they want you to hear, tell you exactly how you should interpret it, and it never occurs to the viewer to ask "is there an agenda at play? Did they leave anything out? What are the other ways I could interpret this?"
This New Rule segment reminded me a lot of the HBO series the newsrooms. "The one requirement that would change our national discourse immeasurably for the better... under no circumstances could there be paid advertising during informational broadcasting. The tax payers will give you the airwaves for free and for 23 hours a day you will make a profit but for 1 hour a night you work for us." The Newsroom (Aaron Sorkin). I wish they would bring that show back.
There is a reason the next "American Crime Story" will be about the Menendez Brothers murdering their parents - a bunch of teen girls on TikTok saw heavily slanted and cleverly edited 30 second clips of Lyle and Eric crying about being abused while wearing cute sweaters and collared shirts - and they now have a huge fan base of young people who think they should be free. A fan base that got their information from a 30 second editorial video they watched in vertical mode on their phones.
I would love to know George Carlins thoughts, opinions, complaints and grievances about all of the batshit craziness of the last 8 years or pretty much any topic Bill Maher has talked about on Real Time!
Bill, THANK YOU for calling out the loaded words used in news headlines! Personally, I can't stand it when EITHER SIDE uses terms like "slams" and "destroys." Personally, I consider myself mostly a fan of Ben Shapiro and his colleagues at the Daily Wire. But I can't stand it when their TH-cam videos have headlines that say "Ben Shapiro DESTROYS woke leftist with facts and logic." This type of language used against opposing views is no way to make inroads and bring anyone over to your way of thinking. It only serves to widen the ideological divide. I've been saying this for years.
@@ccmarcum And yet, invariably, our jaws remain shut the whole time. Right? Loaded language demonstrates a lack of credibility because they’re trying to influence our opinions.
I just watched 3000 students graduate at The University of Georgia. No protests on campus, no signs. Just kids finishing 4 years of college and excited about their futures. Go Dawgs!
@@serdna9307 You'd think that all those Muslim countries in the Middle East would open their borders & welcome Palestinian refugees the way several countries in Eastern Europe took in refugees from Ukraine. Did you ever wonder why they don't? Things that make you go hmm... Are you going to lecture those "good" Muslim people about their lack of compassion & defective values or do you only lecture Jews & the U.S.?
I don't usually comment on anything on TH-cam, but I have to say that this was one of the most encouraging and reassuring messages I have heard in a long while. It's nice to be informed without feeling like the sky is falling, or like someone is jerking your chain towards any extreme.
I would highly recommend Beau Of The Fith Column. I've been watching him for a couple years now as I got rid of watching shit starters like TYT. He is the king of breaking down media scares and explaining what's really going on. He's well informed and intelligent and focused on keeping the facts straight rather than getting everyone riled up. He's the only person who's patreon I donate to as he and his family are heavily involved in and also run charities to aid victims of natural disasters and humanitarian crisis. If you like NOT being fucked around by the media, he's your guy 👌
The media is just using fear mongering tactics, doomsaying like every doomsayer before them. Every doomsayer before them was wrong. We're all living proof of that: Y2K didn't end modern civilization, the world didn't end in 2012 (the Mayan calendar must have been chiseled incorrectly,) Harold Camping's math continues to be off, Marshall Applewhite was wrong too (not that the Heaven's Gate cult is around to know that.) Just move on with your lives, everyone. We all have better things to do.
The sky isn't falling, but there will be big changes in the future. Although mostly won't affect those of us alive today. Countries like Bangladesh will be largely uninhabitable in 50 to 100 years. Those people have to go somewhere.
That was so refreshing. I don’t think I’ve ever agreed with anything that much that I’ve seen on TH-cam. That made me feel better about life as a normal person that hasn’t picked a side in a world where the media tells me to.
@georgelayton6641 He's been ridiculing and attacking the student protesters for many weeks, absurdly claiming they are Hamas loving anti-semites, despite so many Jewish students and even Holocaust survivors joining them. But this week, Biden finally agreed with them, so Bill's trying to save face.
If you go on Twitter or you go to the media comment sections you'll think that the world is ending. You'll sink all these neo Nazis are everywhere and antisemitism is behind every door and under every bed Then you look at the actual poles and the majority of people stand by Israel and understand that they have a right to defend themselves. These are just a small group of Nazis that are very loud You go on these websites you'll think that the world is ending. But there's violence in the streets everybody's getting shot and nobody can afford a loaf of bread But you go out in the real world and yeah things might not be perfect things might be getting more expensive but it's not like it appears on social media. It's just a bad actors have understood that social media is a great way to manipulate people. The Russians figured that out in 2016 And tons of other people figured it out after. It doesn't have to be true but they can use social media to spread disinformation. And it's not just the Russians
Nothing any of us that grew up with Uncle Walter (Cronkite) couldn't tell you, but this was done magnificently. This should be required viewing Day 1 of every Journalism 101 class in the country.
Finally enough the movie anchorman 2 actually illustrates this perfectly.. The entire plot of that movie is Ron Burgundy realizing that he can make way more money and get way more viewers by sensationalizing the news and even making things up then actually reporting on the truth I'm not even sure if Will Ferrell meant it to be that way but that's the way it went
Why? More details please because it's rather hard to believe protestors at a university of that size (a major university) could actually get in the way that much. Did they just block every parking lot or something? University parking is already a major pain but idk, I'm trying to picture how that would come about. Also, I don't really mean to take it there necessarily but if it was just "another war", that'd be one thing I guess. But genocides (genocidal wars) are a bit different and demand swift rebuke by the public and most of the world otherwise it could be normalized as 'just war' or just another run-of-the-mill armed conflict. I mean, Putin is bad enough with his brutal (but not really unconventional) war further up north, but what Netanyahu is doing is somehow even worse. Anyway.. my only critique or question really for the college campus protestors is; "why there? why protest at a college campus?" Like I really don't understand why they are protesting and causing scenes on college/university campuses of all places and not government facilities or sites? And what were/are even their demands anyways? Because I've heard that being reported but I can't imagine what these kids are expecting or requesting from their school with regard to a crisis happening in Gaza.
Bill Maher is brain dead. Like when he mocks the news for quoting the 3 loudest people on Twitter, when just interviewed the loudest Karen on Twitter recently, Elon Musk, and fanned all over him.
Love the fact that this clip is Bill Maher DESTROYS the media 😂😂
Working on a documentary about religion just got back from Tel Aviv. The number of rightwing religious ZEALOTS that are there calling for - literally - “wiping out ALL Palestinians including Children” is TERRYFYING.
Netanyahu has members in his OWN cabinet that are calling for “nuking” Gaza, AND Netanyahu himself talked of the importance of making a new “Nakba” (terror campaign) against the people in Gaza to force them to leave.
SOME of us are *consistent with criticizing religion, including Islam, Judaism, and Christianity… Don’t be me started the Christian version of Sharia Law.
It is ABSOLUTELY embarrassing that Bill Maher - of ALL people - chooses to let his brain stop working with regards to criticizing Netanyahu’s regime in Israel!
Not counting the terrifying interviews you will get to see in our documentary. there are COUNTLESS videos you can find online RIGHT NOW, of Israel’s rightwing religious NUTS calling for the death of ALL Palestinians, and the fact that Bill Maher REFUSES to mention, much less criticize them is an absolute embarrassment.
After all these years of defending him against religious apologists, millions of us now realize, he really IS a biased bigot. And when I look at all the DEAD and starving kids suffering in Gaza, what Maher really is, is a villain.
Irony IS heavy : ).
When I saw that, I thought, "Ugh - I hate headline writers." Then the clip made it clear why. At least here it's comedy being labeled that way, but, then again, that's where this trend started and look how far it's gone.
too bad Maher is talking about himself when he says they are too lazy to do real journalism,he is very uninformed on some issues
Bill's show does not pretend to be journalism; it's edu-tainment, not news
Years ago I watched 2 hours of news everyday and I realized how angry I was becoming. I had two little kids and I remember saying to myself - Is this how I want them to remember me? I stopped watching the propaganda news and felt a lot better. It's like a drug.
I don't even turn on broadcast television anymore and I'm always shocked at how stupid it is when I go to someone's house where it just runs in the background all day long.
What news do you read/watch? People say this about MSM all of the time but never say where they get their news from. I really want to know. NOT being a jerk.
@@gorey4more837 Bill O'Reilly
Me too. 30min max news. No tv news either.
My parents had the news on.
In the car it was AM radio
At home channel flipping 4p, 5p, 6p, 7p, took a break for prime time hours 8p to 11p then back to the news till bed time and started again at 6a until they got work.
Holidays was a political argument
I hated it and hung out in my room or friends.
As young adult I only watch the weather part.
I lived a very clueless rosey trustful non stressful life.
For the past 10 years, my socialization is the news and social media and it is stressful to see and be aware of all the BS.
I miss the clueless lifestyle
Even disconnecting doesn't erase the BS roaming the streets.
I was a journalism major during the watergate days. We do not get news now. Not the way I learned to report it. We have newstainment.
*True!!!*
I'm a retired reporter and noticed when reporters and editors quit reporting and editing and became 'journalists' the 'news' suddenly became theater for clicks.
American Media USED to be the 4th WALL. Now it has gone to shit, because of bribes, payouts and political/alphabet soup agendas. NO ONE trusts the American Mass Media media. I used to be Public Affairs for the Air Force. I was forced to LIE, EVERYDAY.
And Bill is just an extension of that "newstainment."
I also went to school for journalism and practice it daily.
Bill, however, is a HACK, just like the people he exposes.
Oh, the irony.
Deregulation of broadcast ownership in 1996 is what’s destroyed journalism.
“Is the sky falling? Maybe. Or maybe it’s just a Boeing Airplane Door” 🤣🤣💀
That line is amusing until it happens to you or to someone you love. That’s the thing with Bill Maher. I don’t think anything devastating has ever happened to the guy or perhaps not to his family either.
Hopefully, a door from a plane I am NOT on.
Props to the camera guy on the 10 fingers joke. He nailed that zoom with perfect comedic timing!
4:40
He was waiting for it 😂
I clicked thumbs up, but you know what finger I really mean.
these shows are rehearsed...
@@svalbard01😂😂
I'm 69 years old and miss the days of Walter Cronkite when news divisions of television were NOT allowed to focus on making a profit. Then the wall came down between news and entertainment and the news industry on television died.
I never saw Cronkite, Huntley, Brinkley, or Howard K. Smith take time in their broadcasts to hawk their memoir or promote their political treatise.
WC delivered the CIA talking points. The Vietnam War was won but lost by media and Democrats not to mention Jane F.
A Chinese General wrote in his book that they were finished.
Give thanks to Reagan for that.
It didn't help that Obama era policies allowed the American media to use propaganda here at home!
Reagan broke the news by destroying the Fairness Doctrine. I'm close to your age and worked as a news producer. I'm horrified by the news in silos. I trust NONE OF THEM!
That 10 Finger Joke Was Dead On Bravo To The Camera Man For Nailing That Close Up
Yep! That was a dead-pan joke, delivered perfectly. Remembered why I liked this guy in the first place, back before the GWoT.
Thank you Bill. 4 years ago I wasn't a fan. I was stuck in the information box you described. What I find myself relying on these days is, your thought process and take on what's happening around and to us. I find you opinion well thought out, logical and above all, SANE. You don't shy away from guests with (sometimes extremely) different opinions and always speak your truth. You've shown me that people can indeed change. I did. I'm a Fan.
He literally shakes with petulant rage every time he mentions Trump.
Even though Bill says these protests aren't that intense, they're still in tents.
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You stole that from Workaholics, you dirty dog
see yourself out :)
You stole that joke from Workaholics, ya dirty dog
"Look, I have 10 fingers, you wanna se me suddenly have 80% less" lmaoooo
You didn't go very far in school, right dude?
@@frogsong100 Clearly, you didn't watch the whole video. And sure, whatever makes you feel better pal.
james black ripoff from night before ;)
I'm a right-leaning centrist. I grew up in a conservative Christian family. I can't believe how much I like this guy now lol it's a pleasant surprise
Hope u r voting for trump
Same. Every time I watch him I'm thinking "wow, didn't know Mahr was this based. (then he spirals into the trump derangement stuff) Oh. There he is." He has always been somewhat enjoyable to watch, but much more these days.
Dirty Laundry by The Eagles has been the definition of American 24 hour news for decades!
Not the eagles....that's Don Henley
Try Chris Rea, You Must Be Evil
@@joetravieso3542 Don Henley wrote it but Timothy B. Schmidt and Joe Walsh recorded it with him and The Eagles have sang it live!
Orangeman lost me with the 💉 😷 however those who call him a certain Austrian painter...tell me one single policy that hurt you personally, you can't, there's no there there
@@kevinwalsh4652 THE ORANGE GRIFTER-IN-CHIEF!
"Destroys"
I see what you did there.
Didn't catch that, thanks 😂😂😂
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Bill Maher DESTROYS Ben Shapiro
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Ahh, that’s why that is there. I was actually really wary, because I try to avoid any video with that word in the title and was rather unpleasantly surprised to see this old and embarrassing tactic from BM. Good to know he didn’t sink to that low. 😂
I love the irony of having "DESTROYs" in the title. Well played.😂
Lol. Excellent point. I wonder if Maher chose it.
@@gamkal7231He probably didn’t.
I came here for this comment. Thank you for pointing it out lmao.
I came here to say that too! It’s nice to come together.
The title doesn't have the word Destroy in quotes so pure hypocrisy is still an option.
The movie Nightcrawler with Jake Gyllenhall and Rene Russo is a chilling and haunting look at how far Network News will go for a Sensational Story!
Good film too...but, yeah
Loved that film
Try Network too
Bill, I can’t believe how much I am enjoying your short clips. It is telling me one thing. You are not a modern day democrat or republican. You are an American.
I never understood why what anybody says on Twitter or TikTok got to be news
Bcoz news channel aren't reporting any news
Because nobody trusts the Propaganda media.
🚩Bill & legacy media need to stop the lie & the manipulation 🤦♀️
Since Camp David, the Palestinian official Authority has recognized Israel as an independent state. Yet, the Israeli government has NEVER recognized Palestine as an independent state. 🤷♀️
Yes, non-office Palestinian extremists & terrorists refuse to recognize Israel, but at the same token, Israeli extremeists & terrorists refused to recognize Palestine! Perhaps the main difference here is that some Israeli extremists actually work as officials within the current Israeli government, e.g. Itamar Ben Gvir, Bezalel Smotrich, & Yariv Levin!🤷♀️
Why is this news? Cuz you're interested
Rage baiting drives clicks. Clicks make money. Just all profit driven non-sense.
The media is too concerned about survival or profit, good journalism takes a back stage.
Not always. Are there many news outlets prone to attention grabbing headlines? Yes. But to lump them in with social media politicos of the left or right, w.hose every thumbnail implies some major "got you" moment or turning point has been reached, isn't right. There are still journalists out there doing serious work. His comments should reflect that.
A back seat, not stage but i agree
@@marksink1652correct, there are real Journalists still out there..: there just on SubStack. 😂
this so called 'independent' media have a motivation to badmouth mainstream news. they need more people to switch to watching them instead, so THEY get more rating, while they are also just as biased, just as politically filtered, just as lacking in nuance.
I am having a hard time trying to find good journalism nowadays. Every news coverage is so superficial, reporters act like characters in a reality show, there are no news reports nor journalist researchers anymore, just people talking as outsiders, usually with a noticeable bias; meaning they are picking easy subjects. Interviews are all in starvation from hard, deep questions. And you will probably be better informed from late shows and standup comedy than from "news" channels.
Journalism is dead... Money killed it.
Thank you Bill. Thank you so much. I needed to hear this. We ALL needed to hear this.
Well done Bill, Thank you for being the grown up in the room even when it’s not popular. Peace on earth and goodwill to ALL!!
He's right, I asked my son at college whether there was any hint of that and he said "We're too busy with classes to worry about that shit."
I told my parents the same thing about being busy with classes. I wasn't being completely honest.
Yeah, students have no time for protesting. They want a good education so they can make the most money to buy the biggest vehicles and televisions. Materialism is what brought down my generation. We went from "He ain't heavy, he's my brother" to pull yourself up by your own boot straps. We are not a Christian nation as the alleged Christians claim.
Yeah, it's not like that Ricky Gervais movie. Not always 100% forthcoming.
@@Jeremy-ql1or Well I also live relatively close to the campus and heard not a whiff of anything. Apparently they're adults at his school m
@Jeremy-ql1orYou were experimenting with being a lesbian weren't you? 😂
"They got everything right except all of it." 😆😆
Gawd bless Murica 🤓 🖕
Reminds of my favorite line from Ghostbusters II. "Nice job, Lewis. Short, but pointless. "
To be grammatically correct, he should have said except for “any of it”.
Were you an adult back then? These were mere "fog of war" mistakes. Most of it they DID get right.
Also, Bill is now a Republican. Let's discuss, shall we? 😉
@@QuinStifler Bill is a Republican. And you know this how?
bears in swimming pools way better than covering the rats
Bill OWNED, CRUSHED, and PUMMELED this topic!
Something I never thought I would say is, Bill nails it again. The news has now become newstainment.
Brought to you by Pfizer.
If you think he nails it again that means you thought he nailed it before so why would you never think you would say again that he nailed it I don't get this sentence :(
Infotainment
@@victorcoleman949only to the truly uneducated. What university did you graduate from? What branch of the military did you serve in? Child, have you considered community college? 😂
Bill is a self absurd, smug little brat
As a reporter, retired now after over 30 years of doing it, Maher is spot-on with this analysis, especially media corporately-owned or at the national level. These days it is ratings and revenue, and precious little else. I usually try to sample several different media outlets; print, broadcast and occasionally cable. But far too many want what they want to hear and see, and they find it on the internet. Heaven help us all.
What about the pushed narratives based on lies like Russiagate or all the anti Trump propaganda?? How do explain the coordinated efforts??
Yeah what he said was profound
Too bad everyone else has been saying this for 5 years already.
Even the Kronkite part.
@@DaleGribble1 as has he.
@@leviashanken2506 but Maher spared the left as often as he could and pandered to them.
Still is, just a little less now.
He goes Vote Blue No Matter Who every election
Its boring and obvious
Maher is talking to his petit bourgeoisie audience in the manner the morons deserve.
Newsflash kiddies, while Billy is trying to make it sound as if 'Yellow Journalism' is something new, it's been and is being studied to this very day by more learned members of society than his audience apparently. It's been studied for well over a century now in the precise sense of the word. He'll tell you he's not a journalist, but one knows he aspires to punditry in the Will Rogers style. Having said that, he in fact has become, who he is mocking, only in a much less palatable manner. He's calling his fellow pundits out for something he's doing himself. Then again, rather than him being just another garden variety opportunist, he might just be someone totally ignorant about his hypocrisy.
Shred that.
I stopped watching the news about 8 years ago because it just made me angry, paranoid or depressed about all of the crazy shootings, endless war, awful disasters and entrenched government corruption that I couldn’t do anything to stop!
spot on, I haven't watched TV or the news in 30 years.
74 year old black Vietnam veteran. Damn Bill ! There you go with that logic shit. As far as news, Uncle Walter is GOD. Now, news is what comes out the north end of a south bound bull. Cronkite cared about the truth. He's the reason I took news broadcast in college.
How does being black make what u said more relevant? Why do blacks always feel they have to say..., black man here 😂 like it makes their comment more valid
I hear and agree with you as a 68 year old from Canada!
Except for..... Vietnam, he was wrong and completely ignorant. He was tired of War, Who Isn't but if you want something to end make sure YOU get the Complete Facts, without personal biases influencing you. The U.S. after the "Tet Offensive" was actually in it's Best position for victory. Read N.Vietnam General Giap. ".... the Battle of Tet, you defeated us"
"We knew it, we thought you knew it. But we were elated to notice your media was Helping us. They were causing more disruption in America than we could in the Battlefields. We were ready to surrender. You had won.
General Giap has published his memoirs and confirmed what most Americans knew the Vietnam War was not lost in Vietnam ----- it lost at home.
The press corps has its own Sons and Daughter's Blood on their hands.... The battle for Hearts and Minds.... Heart's and Minds ☝️
I have respect for Mr. Cronkite but like everyone else he has his failures and him not being exposed for his failures with Vietnam (especially Tet) have shown me how much the press is in control.
I used to believe him like everyone else, Hook, Line and Sinker, but this time in his career, this time in history showed me was wrong and how THAT Didn't Matter it was what he and his cohorts thought.
@@jason-hy8ci You lost to a bunch of skinny guys in pyjamas that wanted it more than you did. Get over it.
Blessed be, sir 🇺🇸
I almost didn't watch this video because of the title, but the joke was on us! The biggest turnoff for me is when people label everything "INSTANTLY" or "IMMEDIATELY" as if the long and arduous process of what is actually going on can be summarized in a viral clip. It's catering to the culture of "I know I'm right, so let's confirm that again, and please do all my thinking for me."
The media really did misrepresent what students actually think about this. The vast majority just want normalcy
Normalcy? As in Gaza pre-2023? When it was back under complete Hamas control? Hell no. You want a repeat of Oct. 7?
@@jlev1028 Normalcy in the country they live in. Normalcy on their college campus.
@@jlev1028hey genius. Scroll up and read what he wrote again. And then read it again. And then again. And then try harder at putting together a calm coherent thought that's relevant. Reading comprehension is an important skill
@@jlev1028most of those students couldn’t find Gaza on a map, then or now.
I've never seen any students in fear of school shooters at their university or students pushing gun control either. Yet, the media portrays them as a huge voting bloc.
Say "Vote for Trump" to Billy Naysayer and watch what happens. 😎🤣
Recently there have not been enough reports about bears in swimming pools and me and my grandchildren find this distressing.
It's because all the bears fell out of the airplanes
It’s a terrible tragedy that’s being overlooked! 🤣🤣🤣
LOL
If you've been to most churches recently, its the same thing. Its not about teaching truth, its about telling people what they want to hear.
A great comedian trying to be reasonably moderate and I appreciate this!
For media, bad news makes money and gets viewership.
There's also a difference between facts and a truth.
I could, for example, cite a fact, like, you're twice as likely to die eating pork when the truth would cite that a certain small part of the total population has that risk.
The news isn't a lie, but rather taking a truth and stretching it to scare people into overreacting. That's basically what news is.
To be fair, that Batman comic would probably be a better source of news than 90% of the Mainstream Media, these days...
Have you read DC comics these days...? They're every bit as activist, as dishonest, as manipulative as the mainstream media. Probably moreso.
@@spaceknight793
Can you name one news anchor that wants to go back to 50 corporations that gave us news instead of the 6 corporations that give us information? Where is this activism from the media?
@@spaceknight793 Marvel's been more blatant about in their comic books.
Trust me, the second these kids graduate, their #1 issue will be student debt.
It's been that way for a long, long time. I wish the US would join the rest of the western world where public colleges and universities are tuition free.
@@davidhutchinson5233somebody has to pay and that would be the taxpayers!!!
Nah it will be how do they get a house. How do they afford groceries and gas. Since Biden took office cost of living has skyrocketed, more than Trump even said it would
trust you?
FJB forgave lotsa student debts 🤭
The cameraman who zoomed in when Bill flipped us off deserves a raise
Good morning family. He's so critical, but true.😊
"Some people never stop worrying their life is about to be destroyed. In which case, it already is." - Charles Buckowski
If you live in gaza
Somehow Buckowski sounds like a name for a pet chicken, to me.
@@InservioLetumI'm sure that all the people with that last name will applaud you. What is your last name?
@@sandrasuitt6439 I may be a cynical old fuddy duddy but even I know never to give out real names or other identifying information on the internet. With four numbers at the end of your name, you must be fairly new to youtube, so this tip is free :
*_Privacy legislation can neither prevent nor correct user error. Keep your data close, keep your identity closer._*
“All my friends!” 😂
I live in a college neighborhood. There has not been a protest, march, sign, bumper sticker, keffiyeh, or chant. They just go to class, internship, study, and have the usual weekend party.
Where do you live?
I think it was at select Ivy league colleges only
We we're told in Austin but everywhere else, uh , nope.
@@Dodgers-sw2uk Pittsburgh. There are 7 universities that are walking distance from my house.
@@user-np1xw4vy7q seems like most of the nonsense is in California, Oregon, New York and Chicago.
That's why I prefer to get my news directly from wires like AP and Reuters, or European outlets such as DW.
At least I know there's no slant.
Are they perfect? No. But at least they don't have an agenda, like the cable news outlets in the states.
DW is excellent.
Or Philip defranco
So true Bill. I was a News Photographer for 30+ years. When I first got hired, it was in a small TV MARKET but back then, you had to work your way up getting jobs in bigger markets. Getting into the bigger markets made you more money. So, when I started the NEWS is what was reported.
I finally got to 1 of the larger markets, Houston. It meant more money but I was closer to home and that was a big plus. I saw how the NEWS got more artificial and how it got away from reporting facts and giving stories a 'SLANT' to influence viewers. That's when I retired. People that decided what stories would be reported that day would only do ones helpful to them. So I said ADIOS because I thought it was unprofessional to mislead viewers. I'll always remember a saying that would be used very often "IF IT BLEEDS, IT LEADS".
I would like to see more bears in swimming pools
Profit motive is great for a lot of businesses, but not journalism or healthcare.
I agree - healthcare in AMerica is organized crime
Or airlines
Or food
It's basically for couches. Plants. That's about it
Or food or prison management
What about words like “slam” “destroy” “ruin”?
Bill Maher “Destroys” the Media. Hilarious!
When I catch a news feed I think 'what's the proof, where's the evidence'. Check and double check.
If a news site has no comment section for calling out their 💩 or asking follow up questions, I don't even bother with them
This. No matter the source, you should always find a different source to confirm or disprove.
@@Ho11is2Ho11ywoodeveryday I watch people constantly being hypnotized by the news. I don't think these people care with the facts are especially if what they are watching supports their belief system. I always double check the information and so so many times it's incorrect.
The problem is you’re the exception! Too many fall for Tik Tok, or the talking head hosts that are more entertainment than news.
It's really disturbing how easily over half the public is manipulated by media. They present a story, show only the facts they want you to hear, tell you exactly how you should interpret it, and it never occurs to the viewer to ask "is there an agenda at play? Did they leave anything out? What are the other ways I could interpret this?"
I stopped watching the ‘news’ years ago. Haven’t been happier and more educated…and at peace ✌️
Ditto, ditto, ditto. Fuck that noise - calm, peace and life/liberty/pursuit of happiness are ALL that matters. PERIOD.
I've not looked at the news in more than two decades
Bill Mahers show is based around news and current events? So in a way its still the news.
Can't handle disecting logical fallacies
@@quesadilla79 There's so many your mind turns to pus.
Absolutely brilliant!
Well said my friend, so true!
I really hope that Boeing accidents being super rare statement ages well.
Bill would never have the balls to cover that in depth.
This New Rule segment reminded me a lot of the HBO series the newsrooms. "The one requirement that would change our national discourse immeasurably for the better... under no circumstances could there be paid advertising during informational broadcasting. The tax payers will give you the airwaves for free and for 23 hours a day you will make a profit but for 1 hour a night you work for us." The Newsroom (Aaron Sorkin). I wish they would bring that show back.
"A doctor pronounces her dead, not the news."
The 1st 5 minutes of the first episode of "The Newsroom" should be seen by everyone...
I loved those monologues on that show. I was always thinking, Everybody needs to see this.” too.
@@caronstout354 Refresh my memory please!
@@LeeLLewis the 'America is not the greatest country in the world anymore' speech
Wow Bill , you never fail to make a joke out of the fools out there and everywhere. Thank you , always .
The Trump dancing bit had me lol
That’s because simpletons are easily amused.
That’s typical among disconnected tools of this criminal establishment
There is a reason the next "American Crime Story" will be about the Menendez Brothers murdering their parents - a bunch of teen girls on TikTok saw heavily slanted and cleverly edited 30 second clips of Lyle and Eric crying about being abused while wearing cute sweaters and collared shirts - and they now have a huge fan base of young people who think they should be free. A fan base that got their information from a 30 second editorial video they watched in vertical mode on their phones.
if you look into it, it does seem theres a very good chance they were being sexually abused
This is why the kids seem so........dumb, now. They watch a 30 second tiktok, and think they have a grasp on the Israel/palestine conflict.
".... maybe it's just the door from a Boeing airplane" 😂
*scatterplane
Clearly, "air" is not universally applicable to these vehicles.
Real Time, The Daily Show or Late Night Talk Shows are the only News I care to watch anymore!
I would love to know George Carlins thoughts, opinions, complaints and grievances about all of the batshit craziness of the last 8 years or pretty much any topic Bill Maher has talked about on Real Time!
Also Bill Hicks!
New Rule!
Tell It Like It Is!
Comedic/hilarious!
No more journalists!
Just gossipers!
Real Time
Bill Maher
Awesomeness!
Was wondering why he changed the video title from the usual "New Rule." Now I know. Well played. 😂
I'm not on any social media but your missive May 17 was standout. Thank you.
Truth! Thank you Bill!
Bill, THANK YOU for calling out the loaded words used in news headlines! Personally, I can't stand it when EITHER SIDE uses terms like "slams" and "destroys." Personally, I consider myself mostly a fan of Ben Shapiro and his colleagues at the Daily Wire. But I can't stand it when their TH-cam videos have headlines that say "Ben Shapiro DESTROYS woke leftist with facts and logic." This type of language used against opposing views is no way to make inroads and bring anyone over to your way of thinking. It only serves to widen the ideological divide. I've been saying this for years.
My favorite is when something is described as ''jaw-dropping.''
@@ccmarcum And yet, invariably, our jaws remain shut the whole time. Right? Loaded language demonstrates a lack of credibility because they’re trying to influence our opinions.
Ben Shapiro is a walking adderall advertisement. The only thing being destroyed is his brain
Anyone else see the irony when they use DESTROYED in the headlines lol. Still top 2 every week, TY Billy
No irony, it was intentional.
Thanks Bill for reassuring us that we will keep on living if "he wins".
Nails it again!
I just watched 3000 students graduate at The University of Georgia. No protests on campus, no signs. Just kids finishing 4 years of college and excited about their futures. Go Dawgs!
@TCsGirl I spent my teenage and service years in the South, that made me feel good. Thank you. I needed that.
Yeah and don't care about thousands of kids murdered, right?
Wow some values that you have...
@@serdna9307 You totally missed the point.
Keep Georgia red❤
@@serdna9307 You'd think that all those Muslim countries in the Middle East would open their borders & welcome Palestinian refugees the way several countries in Eastern Europe took in refugees from Ukraine. Did you ever wonder why they don't? Things that make you go hmm... Are you going to lecture those "good" Muslim people about their lack of compassion & defective values or do you only lecture Jews & the U.S.?
I don't usually comment on anything on TH-cam, but I have to say that this was one of the most encouraging and reassuring messages I have heard in a long while. It's nice to be informed without feeling like the sky is falling, or like someone is jerking your chain towards any extreme.
I would highly recommend Beau Of The Fith Column. I've been watching him for a couple years now as I got rid of watching shit starters like TYT. He is the king of breaking down media scares and explaining what's really going on. He's well informed and intelligent and focused on keeping the facts straight rather than getting everyone riled up. He's the only person who's patreon I donate to as he and his family are heavily involved in and also run charities to aid victims of natural disasters and humanitarian crisis. If you like NOT being fucked around by the media, he's your guy 👌
The media is just using fear mongering tactics, doomsaying like every doomsayer before them. Every doomsayer before them was wrong. We're all living proof of that: Y2K didn't end modern civilization, the world didn't end in 2012 (the Mayan calendar must have been chiseled incorrectly,) Harold Camping's math continues to be off, Marshall Applewhite was wrong too (not that the Heaven's Gate cult is around to know that.) Just move on with your lives, everyone. We all have better things to do.
The sky isn't falling, but there will be big changes in the future. Although mostly won't affect those of us alive today. Countries like Bangladesh will be largely uninhabitable in 50 to 100 years. Those people have to go somewhere.
"They love a scoop, but it's a scoop of shit...", best line ever
That was so refreshing. I don’t think I’ve ever agreed with anything that much that I’ve seen on TH-cam. That made me feel better about life as a normal person that hasn’t picked a side in a world where the media tells me to.
That finger joke will become an internet classic
Yeah, as well a s the "jerking two guys off"-joke.
Thank you Bill...for finally getting rid of the WHOO guy
He was still there ....
@@47imagine Laryngitis?
He's probably a paid "laugher". That's a real thing. His job is to get the crowd interested and laughing.
Whooooooo!
Say it ain't so...... I really dont like him.@@47imagine
YES! Thank you!
GOD,I LOVE YOU Bill Maher. You always seem to get it right.
10 finger joke was brilliant 😄
I wish there was a way to give this 2 thumbs up.
This is one of the most necessary, urgent, and imperative segments Bill has done in decades.
That's another way to suddenly have 80% fewer fingers 🤣🤣
This is what complacency looks like.
Bill has just levelled up!
Thanks for the weekly dose of sanity.
I never thought that I would agree with Bill Maher about anything. But this was good.
The 80% analogy is hilarious😂
TRUTH! ! Demand it. Facts matter.
Wait a minute here Bill, Weren't you cherry picking this into broad generalities just last week?
@georgelayton6641 He's been ridiculing and attacking the student protesters for many weeks, absurdly claiming they are Hamas loving anti-semites, despite so many Jewish students and even Holocaust survivors joining them. But this week, Biden finally agreed with them, so Bill's trying to save face.
Hes not a news reporter
My first time here! This is amazing and so needed! And I write this from Canada! Bravo! More!
Hi Bill. Your country REALLY needs you. Best wishes from the Netherlands.😊
Thank you for reminding me why I deleted my threads and Twitter account. I’m tired of feeling like the world’s gonna end every single day.
For some people it does end every day
If you go on Twitter or you go to the media comment sections you'll think that the world is ending. You'll sink all these neo Nazis are everywhere and antisemitism is behind every door and under every bed
Then you look at the actual poles and the majority of people stand by Israel and understand that they have a right to defend themselves. These are just a small group of Nazis that are very loud
You go on these websites you'll think that the world is ending. But there's violence in the streets everybody's getting shot and nobody can afford a loaf of bread
But you go out in the real world and yeah things might not be perfect things might be getting more expensive but it's not like it appears on social media. It's just a bad actors have understood that social media is a great way to manipulate people. The Russians figured that out in 2016
And tons of other people figured it out after. It doesn't have to be true but they can use social media to spread disinformation. And it's not just the Russians
@@diyaarshad2238Lol 🙄
Nothing any of us that grew up with Uncle Walter (Cronkite) couldn't tell you, but this was done magnificently. This should be required viewing Day 1 of every Journalism 101 class in the country.
Finally enough the movie anchorman 2 actually illustrates this perfectly.. The entire plot of that movie is Ron Burgundy realizing that he can make way more money and get way more viewers by sensationalizing the news and even making things up then actually reporting on the truth
I'm not even sure if Will Ferrell meant it to be that way but that's the way it went
I used to live in Westminster, MD and would listen to Bill's brother Tom on the radio.
Remember Cronkite reporting on JFK's assination.
Love the double shot at Boeing😂😂 our deep conspiracy driven fears of the future is almost same odds as winning lotto jackpot.
I somewhat agree. My wife works for a major University and she had to work from home because of the protests.
Why? More details please because it's rather hard to believe protestors at a university of that size (a major university) could actually get in the way that much. Did they just block every parking lot or something? University parking is already a major pain but idk, I'm trying to picture how that would come about.
Also, I don't really mean to take it there necessarily but if it was just "another war", that'd be one thing I guess. But genocides (genocidal wars) are a bit different and demand swift rebuke by the public and most of the world otherwise it could be normalized as 'just war' or just another run-of-the-mill armed conflict. I mean, Putin is bad enough with his brutal (but not really unconventional) war further up north, but what Netanyahu is doing is somehow even worse. Anyway.. my only critique or question really for the college campus protestors is; "why there? why protest at a college campus?" Like I really don't understand why they are protesting and causing scenes on college/university campuses of all places and not government facilities or sites? And what were/are even their demands anyways? Because I've heard that being reported but I can't imagine what these kids are expecting or requesting from their school with regard to a crisis happening in Gaza.
Bill, thank you for this. You are a rare voice of sanity.
PEOPLE tried to do that during Hitler’s reign and that didn’t work out so well.
Wasn’t Maher the one screaming at them two weeks ago?
Yes, and he's saying, you don't have to take it seriously. Most people are hypocrites, don't have to follow them like gullible people
don’t know, don’t watch! His take is factual! This current Media stinks!😊
YUP.
Bill Maher is brain dead. Like when he mocks the news for quoting the 3 loudest people on Twitter, when just interviewed the loudest Karen on Twitter recently, Elon Musk, and fanned all over him.
Well said Bill. Failing grades to nightly news and streaming news from ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS.
And Fox... Fail all news or no news, don't be a partisan hack.
Right On!
Cronkite needs to be the gold standard again for journalists.
Possibly the best Maher monologue
Spot on. Couple decades late, but spot on. This is why nearly everyone has already abandoned the main stream media. Journalism died a long time ago.