On his HBO show Real Time on Friday, Bill Maher spoke to ultraliberal black Congresswoman Donna Edwards about Black Lives Matter activists forcing themselves on Democratic presidential candidates. Maher thought that was puzzling at best.
"Why are they starting with Barney Frank [Bernie Sanders?] and Hilary Clinton? I mean, these are people who are sympathetic to this, who have worked their whole lives to change this system. Why don’t they go at it with one of, as you said it, the thousand Republican candidates. I don’t understand it. It’s an odd choice.”
Maher began by agreeing the movement's slogan and hashtag: "There are people say it — the phrase should be ‘All Lives Matter.’ I disagree. That implies that all lives are equally at risk, and they’re not. Black Lives Matter is the right [phrase].” The usual audience applause followed.
That’s when Maher read aloud Clinton’s statement when she was confronted with the activists:
I want to read what Hillary Clinton said in response when she was asked about this. She said “what am I supposed to do about it? In politics if you can’t explain it or can’t sell it, it stays on the shelf. I don’t believe you change hearts. I believe you change laws, you change the allocation of resources, you chance the way the systems operate.”
Maher went on to say:
“This is a fundamental difference between a bunch of fuzzy headed liberals who just don’t get it, and people like Barney Frank …you have to change laws, you can’t just change how people think. “
This is the TV host who put his money where his mouth is and donated $1 million to an Obama super PAC in 2012. Maher slammed Occupy Wall Street as a movement that couldn’t get anything done.
Guest Charles Cooke of National Review interrupted Maher, explaining that the activists did a great job by listing out their grievances to Hillary about how minorities were unfairly targeted by Clinton crime policies, but the more they talked, the more they wouldn’t come to a conclusion on how to correctly move forward.
Edwards told Maher it was unfair to slam these movements when they succeed in "changing the conversation."
[HT Mediaite]
