Bill Maher Defends Chris Matthews and Slams Coronavirus ‘Overreactions’
Invoice Maher made some controversial feedback defending the abruptly retired “Hardball” host Chris Matthews and slamming overreactions to the coronavirus unfold.
“A buddy of mine misplaced his job this week — Chris Matthews. Needed to offer him a shoutout as a result of I’ll miss him and plenty of different individuals will, too,” the “Actual Time” host mentioned Friday. “MSNBC used to run this factor, ‘That is who we’re.’ Effectively, I didn’t like who you had been this week and I don’t assume lots of people who work there like this both. I believe this cancel tradition is a most cancers on progressivism.”
Matthews introduced his retirement on air Monday and apologized for making inappropriate feedback to girls on his present. Every week earlier, a feminine journalist wrote an op-ed revealing that Matthews mentioned issues that made her uncomfortable in a 2016 encounter on his present and cited quite a few different examples of ladies with comparable experiences.
Maher acknowledged that Matthews mentioned “sort of creepy” issues to girls through the years, however defended him by saying, “Guys are married for 1,000,000 years” and so they “wish to flirt for 2 seconds.”
He then turned his focus to Laura Bassett, the journalist behind the op-ed, saying, “Thanks, Rosa Parks.” He added, “Is she a praise sufferer or a praise survivor?”
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Segueing to the unfold of the coronavirus, Maher mentioned, “Talking of overreactions, I’m over this virus. I haven’t had it. What I’m saying is, I’m sick. I don’t imply that, both. I’m sick of the virus — however not from the virus. At this level, I simply f—ing wish to get it so we don’t have to speak about it or fear about touching my face anymore.”
This comes after movie competition South by Southwest was canceled over fears of the coronavirus spreading and different occasions, like Miami’s Extremely Music Competition and the American Movie Institute’s Life Achievement Award Gala, have been postponed.
“The best way they speak about it on the information…They make it sound like in the event you’re inside six ft of anybody who has it, simply get your affairs so as,” Maher mentioned.
As of Saturday, greater than 3,000 individuals have died from the pandemic worldwide, together with 17 individuals in america, in line with the Washington Publish. Maher listed off statistics of “the common flu” and claimed that 517 individuals have died from it “this season” in California and 61,000 died from it final yr.
“If that was on TV on daily basis, I’d assume we’d be freaking out,” he mentioned. “Folks die. That’s what occurs in life…Y2K was going to finish the world and the fires in Kuwait had been going to finish the world and the BP oil spill was going to finish the world, and each different f—ing flu we’ve ever had. And it didn’t.”
