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World War Z Author Imagines Xi Blackmailing Trump With Plane Crashes

Alex Christy
February 1st, 2025 2:00 PM

World War Z author Max Brooks went off on a nonsensical hypothetical tangent on HBO’s Friday episode of Real Time with Bill Maher. In the context of a larger conversation about the need to keep Chinese fingerprints off of critical infrastructure, Brooks mused that Chinese dictator Xi Jinping could blackmail President Donald Trump over Taiwan in order to avoid more plane crashes like…

 
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Year-End Awards: The Dumbest Celebrity Quotes of 2014

Rich Noyes
December 30th, 2014 10:50 AM
Today’s installment of the Media Research Center’s “Best Notable Quotables of 2014,” as selected by our 40 expert judges, the “The Barbra Streisand Political IQ Award for Celebrity Vapidity.”
 

Maher Panelist Equates Tea Party to Nazis: ‘This Has Happened Before

Brent Baker
June 28th, 2014 8:56 AM
Graphic novelist Max Brooks, a former writer for Saturday Night Live, charged on Friday night’s Real Time with Bill Maher that Tea Party “ideologues” are just like the Nazi “ideologues” who fooled the German elite in the decades before World War II.