Bill Maher’s ‘Real Time’ Blasts Washington Post Twitter Wars: “Democracy Dies In Dumbness”
deadline.comBill Maher has a beef with Millennials, specifically those who inhabit the newsroom of the Washington Post.Reviewing the recent Twitter war between WaPo reporter Felicia Sonmez and the other members of that newsroom – a flame battle that eventually saw Sonmez fired and another reporter put on a month’s leave without pay – Maher said the joke tweet that instigated it was something that has been going on for eons.
Yet the “unlicensed daycare center” that is the newsroom didn’t find the humor in it.“Can you imagine a world that allows jokes you don’t like?
Of course, the leadership folded like a Miami condo,” he said, falling back on the tired trope that the tweet did not reflect the institution’s values, “free speech not being one of them.”Maher then broadened the WaPo conflict into a larger takedown of the generation that now is coming into its own in the workplace as Baby Boomers retire.“You think my generation is an eyeroll,” Maher said. “Let me tell you about the younger generation.
Your sense of entitlement is legendary,” he said, also attacking “your attention span and work ethic,” specificcally “the unqualified little shit who doesn’t understand why he’s not a producer yet.” He added that the WaPo story had such resonance because we all know the stereotypical players in it.Millennials complain that they haven’t taken over yet, Maher said.
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