Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO) - 2/4/22

[Rhiannon12866]

Monologue: Waiting to Inhale

Bill recaps the top stories of the week, including the GOP's growing fealty to Donald Trump and calls to boycott Spotify.




Bill Maher Responds to Whoopi Goldberg

Bill defends Whoopi Goldberg's right to be wrong – without being cancelled or given a time-out from The View.




Bill Maher Reacts to Jeff Zucker's Resignation

Bill and his guests Katherine Mangu-Ward and Johann Hari discuss CNN President Jeff Zucker's ouster due to a consensual workplace relationship.




New Rule: Apply Precision to the Pandemic

Bill questions why the same people in medicine who, in private care, always say “get a second opinion” want to allow only one in the public debate.




Overtime: Rep. Ro Khanna, Johann Hari, Katherine Mangu-Ward

Bill Maher and his guests answer viewer questions after the show.




Here's a "bootleg" version of the show which includes the entire interview with Rep. Ro Khanna (7:41), entire panel discussion with Johann Hari and Katherine Mangu-Ward (18:43), Bill's "funny bit" (33:00) and includes the opening part of New Rules (46:20). It won't last long, as usual:

[ItsjustMe]

1. Full Show

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216321823

[Warpy]

2. Oh, Bill, silly man

Bad medical reporting is sensationalized for morons. If you went to primary sources, you'd get a completely different story.

Kids are wearing masks in schools to protect the teacher, not themselves. Think about that one.

We ticked over 900,000 dead today. While new cases are dropping like a rock, they're not down to a reasonable level, not yet. It seems the virus is getting a little less lethal in order to become more contagious. It's still lethal, and the bad strains are still out there. When the number of new cases drops to an acceptable level, vaccinated people can ditch the masks and tell the unvaxed "you hosers are on your own." We're just not quite there, yet.

You're just not helping, silly man. That's why the applause was so tepid for your shitty medical advice. Stick to politics. You're better at politics.

[thesquanderer]

3. He can't be objective about the "medical establishment" because of how they've treated pot.

Of course they haven't been perfect, but a lot of his complaints about how covid was handled simply came down to wanting to be extra cautious because we had limited understanding of what we were dealing with.

It was indeed a surprisingly badly thought out segment.

[Warpy]

4. The medical establishment didn't have a choice

thanks to the efforts of Harry Anslinger and Richard Nixon. Research might have been ongoing for decades but there was so much red tape involved that few were able to untangle it enough for limited studies. So now they have a largely untested psychoactive plant and research has to play catch up before the medical establishment can pronounce its compounds safe and effective.

Never mind cannabis has been used medically for thousands of years.