“To those viewers who aren’t watching this while also looking at their phones,” begins Bill Maher’s open letter to pop singer Chappel Roan, the smirk on his face informing you that he’s being funny now, “let me explain: Chappell Roan is a great new recording artist who, like a Hezbollah pager, is really blowing up.”
Building a punchline on the horrors of Lebanese kids’ and healthcare workers’ faces being blown off by Israeli terrorism gives a pretty good outline for how the rest of his self-satisfied lecture goes.
He goes on to tell young Americans that they don’t know as much as he does about the Middle East because the Chinese are using TikTok to make them hate Israel – it’s not the videos of exploded children and patients being burned alive in a hospital, it’s those meddling Chinese. Bill Maher, however, knows better.
So from his soapbox he tells his viewers that Gen Z is too hardened to care about “young women raped at a music festival.” This dangerous statement, used by corporate stenographers like Maher to build a ‘brown savage’ narrative that justifies bombing schools and hospitals, is backed by zero instances of evidence, victims, or witnesses of Hamas rape on October 7. What he doesn’t mention, of course, is the videos of Israeli guards gang raping Palestinian prisoners, the Right to Rape protests across Israel, or the Knesset member claiming that “inserting sticks into people’s rectums” is “legitimate.”
And to teach the ignorant young Americans a lesson, the famously atheist Maher then uses the Bible to prove that Israelis aren’t colonizers.
Every second of this thing is worse than the last – the best we can do for humanity is to mock Bill Maher as much as possible.
Also in this week’s Thursday Throwdown: Kamala Harris claims that the Russians tricked Black people into thinking that there’s racism in the US, one of the top US officials involved in pushing Ukraine into war with Russia is now saying ‘never mind,’ and if you didn’t get your condescending blowhard fix from Bill Maher, Atlantic staff writer Tom Nichols is here to tell you that if you vote for Jill Stein, you’re not a serious voter.
After this week’s Throwdown, you’re going to need to wash your eyes. Or maybe scrub them.
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