Comedian Bill Maher used his podcast Club Random to argue that the public shaming of Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker over his pro-family commencement remarks shows exactly why he fucking hate[s] the far-left assholes and their bad attitude.
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According to the Daily Caller, Maher revisited the controversy that erupted after Butker urged female graduates at Benedictine College in 2024 to prioritize marriage and motherhood over corporate ambition. The comedian said he was especially disturbed by how presenters at the Excellence in Sports Performance Yearly (ESPY) Awards singled out the Super Bowl champion for ridicule in front of a national audience.
I defended him, Maher said, stressing that he shares virtually none of Butkers religious or cultural commitments. And I remember starting out saying, I have nothing in common with this guy. Hes a super Christian. Hes all about the family and the wife and having kids and blah blah blah. And all he was saying was Shout out to the ladies who want to have kids. Its like, okay, thats your view.
Maher recounted how the ESPYs turned that view into a public spectacle, not a debate. And then people got on stage went like, Everybody here should be like happy to be here except for you. And they literally pointed him out by name in the crowd, he added. Its that kind of thing that makes me fucking hate the far-left assholes who do that and their fucking bad attitude.
The HBO host emphasized that Butkers perspective is not fringe, but one held by millions of Americans who still see family as the center of a meaningful life. From a conservative standpoint, the outrage over a man praising motherhood underscores how intolerant progressive culture has become toward traditional values.
Butkers original remarks at Benedictine were explicit in their defense of marriage and children as a higher calling than careerism. I think it is you, the women, who have had the most diabolical lies told to you Some of you may go on to lead successful careers in the world, Butker said during his speech at Benedictine College. But I would venture to guess that the majority of you are most excited about your marriage and the children you will bring into this world.
Maher, who still labels himself a liberal, has increasingly sounded like a dissident within his own camp as he criticizes the Democratic Partys cultural radicalism and hostility to dissent. His commentary reflects a broader realignment in which some old-school liberals now find more common ground with conservatives on free speech, civility and respect for traditional life choices.
That theme resurfaced in a Nov. 10 episode of Club Random, when Maher and actress Cheryl Hines, wife of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., lamented how Democrats have grown more aggressive and punitive. The Republicans have been very kind to me from the beginning. Even from the beginning, when Bobby was running as a Democrat, they werent mean, Hines said. And they never have been. And I cant say that for the Democrats.
Maher agreed that the party he once championed has changed into something harsher and less tolerant of disagreement. I agree. And its sad because its not the Democrats we grew up with. And thats the difference that people dont, I think, see. Theyre like, Why did you turn on the Democrats? Well, first of all, I didnt. Like I said, we voted for the same person, Maher replied. But Im not going to pretend I dont notice how different they are. How mean theyve become.
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