Bill Maher Struggles To Make Sense Of The Senseless On ‘Real Time’
deadline.comHow do you deal with a world where finger-pointing, bureaucracy, mob actions and a lack of initiative stall progress? That was the running theme of Friday’s Real Time on HBO, as a downbeat Bill Maher took on a world that was clearly vexing him greatly.
The show started out with an appearance by former Democratic Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo and his former Chief of Staff, Melissa DeRosa, author of What’s Left Unsaid: My Life at the Center of Power, Politics and Crisis.
Cuomo was forced toresign his post because of sexual harassment allegations. But there’s apparently more to the story than the accusations, and DeRosa and Cuomo blamed the New York Times and the lemming-like approach of the media in sloppily telling the story for Cuomo’s fall from grace.
Maher – who said he didn’t want to carry water for the two – did go over some of the more absurd accusations that brought down the former Governor, but did chastise Cuomo for his touching habits, accusing him of not getting the memo that “kids don’t want to be touched.” Cuomo acknowledged that he did get the mem, “but it can be carried to an absurd length,” and blamed politics for escalating things. “It’s cancel culture on steriods at the highest level,” he said.
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