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Bill Maher pushes back on Fauci: 'Don't sit there in your white coat and tell me "just do what we say"'
The Hill ^ | 01/21/22 05:31 PM EST | BY JUDY KURTZ -

Posted on 01/23/2022 1:22:13 AM PST by RandFan

Bill Maher is pushing back against blindly following the advice of Anthony Fauci and other doctors amid the coronavirus pandemic, saying, “Don’t sit there in your white coat and tell me 'just do what we say.' ”

“That’s not a criticism of them like they’re being corrupt, although there certainly is plenty of corruption in the medical establishment,” the “Real Time” host said in an interview with Deadline published Friday, when asked if he believes Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease doctor, or the medical establishment “really know what they are doing.”

“But I’ve always maintained that the big overarching theme should be that people look back and say, 'Oh, look how far we’ve come medically.' Yes, that’s true. We’re not putting wooden teeth in our mouth like in the George Washington era, and of course we have antibiotics and lots of vaccines and lots of other things that have been miraculous. But in general, we still don’t understand too much about how the human body works,” Maher said.

The medical community, the controversial HBO host said, has been wrong “a lot” throughout history.

“They drilled mercury into my teeth when I was a child. Now, of course, we don’t do that anymore, but do you really think in 50 years people will look back and say, 'Oh, yeah, we had it all figured out in 2022'? No, they will be appalled at things we’re doing right now.”

Despite the country seeing more than 860,000 deaths from COVID-19 since 2020, Maher said he was “never scared” of the pandemic.

“I was always scared of the reaction to it, and as this has played out that only proved to be more true for me,” he told Deadline.

“It was never that virulent a threat, I thought, to people who were in good health,” he continued.

“Now, some people can’t help that they’re not in good health. We should, of course, protect the vulnerable, but it was mostly a disease of the very old, which every disease is a threat to, and people who have comorbidities, which mostly is due to lifestyle.”

Of vaccines, Maher — who tested positive for COVID-19 last May — said, “They just prevent you from dying, which is a great part of it, let’s not undercount that. But if they don’t prevent you from transmitting it and they don’t prevent you from getting it why are we still treating this disease the way we always have?”

COVID-19 has been known to lead to serious illness and death even in younger and middle-aged adults who are otherwise healthy, and studies have shown — and most public health experts agree — that vaccinations greatly reduce the chances of being hospitalized or dying from the coronavirus.

The comedian sounded off on Democrats and Republicans alike in the interview.

Maher said the country is much different than it was when “Real Time” first premiered in 2003.

“I think the politics around me have changed. In other words, the first years George W. Bush was president and the liberal half of the country was, I thought, pretty sane. Now, since about I don’t know 2015 or so there’s been a real sea change in what’s going on, on the left.”

Maher knocked Democrats as “the party of no common sense,” saying they have “inverted so much of traditional liberalism.”

But Maher also took aim at Republicans echoing former President Trump’s baseless claim that he was the actual winner of the 2020 election. A December poll from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst found that nearly three-quarters of Republicans doubted that President Biden’s election victory was legitimate.

“Now I always will maintain that the right is the more dangerous faction in this country, especially since they don’t believe in elections — I mean you have to keep that in perspective,” Maher, 66, said. “One side does not believe in the form of government we have. What do you do about people who are in the government who don’t believe in your form of government?”

Calling the peaceful transfer of power the “feather in our cap as America,” Maher said, “And now these people on the right have broken that and God knows what’s going to happen in the future.”

Maher also offered a bleak prediction for the future, saying “the real day of reckoning is going to be between Election Day 2024 and Inauguration Day 2025, because that’s when the rubber really hits the road.”

Asserting that Trump will “definitely be running” and will become the 2024 Republican presidential nominee, Maher said that similar to 2020, the ex-president will refuse to concede.

“But this next time, he’s going to have people in place who will back him up on his lie that he won the election whether he did or not. And then what do you do when those people are much more powerful and there are two claimants to the throne?”

“I mean, we’ve seen this play out in other countries and it’s not pretty,” Maher said. “And I don’t know what will happen, but it frightens me a great deal.”


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1 posted on 01/23/2022 1:22:13 AM PST by RandFan
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To: RandFan

His take on what he calls the “right” is
still leftish projection at its finest.

He remains unwilling to call the left what
it truly is, ‘cause he makes good money
doing what he does.


2 posted on 01/23/2022 1:29:23 AM PST by period end of story (Give me a firm spot, and I will move the world.)
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To: RandFan

He is being allowed to say this. It’s trial balloon time


3 posted on 01/23/2022 1:33:14 AM PST by BRL
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To: RandFan

Fake rage? /s


4 posted on 01/23/2022 1:35:02 AM PST by cranked
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To: RandFan
“Now, some people can’t help that they’re not in good health. We should, of course, protect the vulnerable The elderly and infirm, the obese and chronically ill of course have the duty to protect themselves, but it was mostly a disease of the very old, which every disease is a threat to, and people who have comorbidities, which mostly is due to lifestyle.”

Regards,

5 posted on 01/23/2022 1:38:00 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: BRL

If the left turn on Fauci he’s had it...


6 posted on 01/23/2022 1:38:10 AM PST by RandFan
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To: RandFan
But if they don’t prevent you from transmitting it and they don’t prevent you from getting it why are we still treating this disease the way we always have?”

And, knowing this, why are leftists so incensed at the unvaxxed? They could get covid from a vaxxed person the same way I could. But *I* am the danger here? Talk about cognitive dissonance.

7 posted on 01/23/2022 2:17:18 AM PST by Lizavetta
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To: RandFan

Dont be fooled by Bill Maher.

Bill Maher is only ever for or against something if it personally benefits Bill Maher.


8 posted on 01/23/2022 2:23:17 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: alexander_busek

Well, we can protect the elderly to a degree.

When people get sick, they can stay home and not infect others.

And the government can not stuff actively sick people into nursing homes where people who are generally not in the best of health to begin with are in the first place.

We can also make sure, and this is families more than anything, that the elderly are eating nutritionally sound meals and not becoming vitamin deficient.

So, yes, I do think there are things we could have done to protect the elderly to a degree.

However, rearranging out lives to the degree that the government has mandated us to, does nothing to protect anyone, nor should the claim of caring about the elderly be the excuse to rob us of our freedom and destroy this country.

Nor is it protecting the elderly to leave them alone in despair and a hopeless situation where they just give up on living, or succumb o other maladies left untreated.

Killing people in the name of protecting them is not the answer, but it does satisfy the bloodlust of the left for whom people cannot die fast enough for them.


9 posted on 01/23/2022 2:36:03 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: Secret Agent Man

If the election were not stolen, why is the left fighting like a cornered, rabid animal to avoid any auditing of election results or voter registration rolls?

If it’s on the up and up, invite people in to check it out and prove it was legit.

If you don’t, it’s because you have something to hide, which if it were a fair and honest election, you would not.

Objecting to auditing the election results screams guilt like nothing else can.


10 posted on 01/23/2022 2:40:48 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: Secret Agent Man

He is trying to save himself from the inevitable firing squads.

Your name is still at the top of the list Bill.

“nO oNe fOrCeD yOu tO tAkE tHe vAcCiNe” - coming late 2022/2023


11 posted on 01/23/2022 2:43:06 AM PST by KC_Lion
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To: RandFan
“Now I always will maintain that the right is the more dangerous faction in this country, especially since they don’t believe in elections — I mean you have to keep that in perspective,” Maher, 66, said. “One side does not believe in the form of government we have. What do you do about people who are in the government who don’t believe in your form of government?”

What? Oh for the love of Pete, what rubbish doth spew for this ignoramus's mouth?

One side he admits is insane the other dangerous?

Does he even hear himself? The disconnect on display here is massive.

12 posted on 01/23/2022 2:55:31 AM PST by EBH (Hold My Beer. 1776-2021 May God Save Us.)
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To: RandFan

Welcome to the useful idiot without the “useful” part, Maher.


13 posted on 01/23/2022 3:17:54 AM PST by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: RandFan

Take the jabs & boosters, $Bill.


14 posted on 01/23/2022 3:29:55 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: BRL

“He is being allowed to say this. It’s trial balloon time”

They’re preparing us for the next ‘emergency’


15 posted on 01/23/2022 3:32:27 AM PST by Samurai_Jack (This is not about hypocrisy, this is about hierarchy!)
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To: RandFan

I want to know why hasn’t fauci been stopped.. arrested?

Is he bigger than the gov?


16 posted on 01/23/2022 3:39:28 AM PST by frnewsjunkie
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To: BRL

Could it possibly be that the parts of the vaccine cabal may actually be questioning the nonsense coming out of Fauci and the politcos behind him and are trying to start salvaging their credibility before the truth hits the fan?


17 posted on 01/23/2022 3:42:20 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: RandFan

Bill Maher didn’t kh1ll himself.


18 posted on 01/23/2022 4:00:44 AM PST by Old Yeller (1776 em all. Let God sort it out.)
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To: metmom
Well, we can protect the elderly to a degree. [...] So, yes, I do think there are things we could have done to protect the elderly to a degree.

I think that you and I are talking past each other, to an extent.

The elderly have the duty to protect themselves.

When The State intercedes, and says that I have the duty to alter my lifestyle, submit to vaxxination, etc. - in order to protect someone else, THAT'S where tyranny begins. And I don't think that you or I wants that.

(You, on the other hand, are probably speaking of a person protecting his elderly loved ones - which is another thing entirely.)

Regards,

19 posted on 01/23/2022 4:15:24 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Lizavetta

I think the left (vaxxed) is so incensed because they got played. They, without doing any research on their own, voluntarily gave themselves up to a government produced gene therapy and modification injection. It’s irreversible too. In any other time, the medical community and the FDA would have immediately halted the “vaccine” after far less reportage of the adverse effects, the sicknesses and the death.


20 posted on 01/23/2022 4:35:55 AM PST by atc23 (The Matriarchal Society we embrace has led to masks and mandates and the cult of "safety")
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