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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(131,880 posts)
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 08:20 PM Monday

Bill Maher Defends Bashing Jimmy Kimmel's Wife for Trump Ultimatum to Her Family: 'They're Mad at Me'

Comedian Bill Maher defended bashing late-night host Jimmy Kimmel’s wife for sending her family a pre-election “ultimatum,” warning relatives not to vote for President Donald Trump, and lamented that Kimmel being “mad” at him was proof of a liberal-woke “schism” in the Democratic Party.

Maher had mocked Kimmel’s wife, Molly McNearney, on HBO’s Real Time on November 21 after she disclosed on a podcast that she had severed ties with members of her family over their support for the president. McNearney, who works as a co-head writer and executive producer of her husband’s ABC show, also revealed that she had warned family members that a vote for Trump felt like a vote against her family.

At the time, Maher said he could list “100” reasons not to vote for Trump but would “never present it” as an ultimatum. Instead, he urged Democrats to examine why “77 million Americans didn’t want to trust you with taking power.”

Reflecting on the fallout on Sunday, Maher told pundit Ana Kasparian during a sit-down on his own Club Random Podcast that Kimmel and his wife were angry at him, for which he apologized before doubling down on his stance.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/celebrity/articles/bill-maher-defends-bashing-jimmy-151310026.html

That's not an apology Maher.

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Bill Maher Defends Bashing Jimmy Kimmel's Wife for Trump Ultimatum to Her Family: 'They're Mad at Me' (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Monday OP
He has always been an asshole. lapfog_1 Monday #1
He's upped his assholery of late Brother Buzz Monday #9
Who cares? Scrivener7 Monday #2
Someone should ask Maher why 300+ million don't give a shit what he says. nt BootinUp Monday #3
Who TF are you, Bill Maher, to criticize anyone? mcar Monday #4
This Bill Maher? SocialDemocrat61 Monday #5
Bill who? a kennedy Monday #6
His For-Profit Sanctimony routine is probably being studied and emulated Torchlight Monday #7
What? Maher needs to keep his Cha Monday #8
hmm themaguffin Yesterday #10

Torchlight

(6,243 posts)
7. His For-Profit Sanctimony routine is probably being studied and emulated
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 10:00 PM
Monday

by televangelists worldwide. More's the irony...

Cha

(316,184 posts)
8. What? Maher needs to keep his
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 11:05 PM
Monday

Creepy nose out of Molly McNearney's business and her name out of his PEDO Appeaser's mouth.

Sorry that anyone in Molly's family would think of "voting" for the Neo Nazi trying to destroy America.

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