Bill Maher Lays The Blame On Just About Everyone, Including St. Patrick’s Day Parades
deadline.comIt was a scatter-shot Real Time from Bill Maher on Friday night. During the course of his conversations, the blame game fell on just about everyone, from politicians to tech titans to those staging St.
Patrick’s Day parades. The night started with tech reporter Kara Swisher, host of the podcast On with Kara Swisher, co-host of the podcast Pivot, and author of the memoir Burn Book: A Tech Love Story.
Swisher’s dogged reporting has tech titans cringing, she claimed. “I think they’re scared a little bit,” and judging from her less-than-favorable comments on the likes of Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, they may have good reason.
She characterized that a lot of moguls are “hugely narcissistic,” and said the yes-men that surround them pump them to the point that, “You start t think of yourself as a god.” Swisher was not willing to balance their good works with that attitude. “I don’t think you have to give someone an out,” she said, noting that claims of wanting to change the world are a cover “for wanting to make money.” Swisher allowed that she has high hopes for AI, but said it could also “go completely south.” There are no guard rails, she said, adding, “We’re the crash-test dummies of the digital age.” The panel portion of the show featured Beto O’Rourke, former Democratic Congressman from Texas and founder of Powered by People; and Sarah Isgur, former lawyer at the U.S Department of Justice under President Trump, senior editor of The Dispatch, and host of its legal podcast, Advisory Opinions.
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