Bill Maher used an appearance on National Public Radio to accuse the taxpayer-funded outlet of drifting into the far extreme of the left, confronting the networks bias directly in front of its own audience.
According to the Gateway Pundit, the HBO Real Time host joined NPRs Steve Inskeep on the program Newsmakers and argued that the network is different from what it used to be and now caters to an overwhelmingly progressive base. His criticism echoes long-standing conservative concerns about NPRs ideological tilt and the justification for continuing to subsidize it with public money, especially after its notorious refusal to seriously cover the Hunter Biden laptop story.
Breitbart News reports that Maher pushed back when Inskeep suggested NPRs audience is more ideologically varied than critics assume. The audience is a little more diverse than you might think, Inskeep claimed, prompting Maher to shoot back, Really? Im surprised you even had me on!
Maher urged listeners to focus on substance rather than tribal loyalty, telling Inskeep, What I always want people to do but its so hard to get people to do these days is just engage with argument, and adding, Are you engaging with the argument? Tell me if Im wrong about something. And then were gonna be cool. He lamented the current climate, saying, But thats not what either extreme does in this country anymore, before pointedly adding, And maybe Im wrong, but I think of this place as the far extreme of the left.
During the same interview, Maher also defended conservatives, noting that the left often adopts a smug, dismissive posture toward anyone who disagrees. Bill Maher may be a liberal, but unlike many on the left, he is at least willing to engage with people on the right and challenge institutions like NPR that enjoy public funding while serving a narrow ideological agenda.
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