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Bill Maher's 'Pedophiles in Hollywood' Remarks Go Viral
Newsweek ^ | Apr 22, 2024 | Rachel Dobkin

Posted on 04/24/2024 1:26:47 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Comedian Bill Maher's "Kid 'N Prey" segment on Friday went viral on social media after he criticized the child entertainment industry.

On Friday's episode of Real Time with Bill Maher, Maher reacted to the recently released documentary Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV, which exposed the sexual abuse and hostile work environment that child actors faced at the hands of adults at Nickelodeon.

The comedian posted the segment from his show on X, formerly Twitter, on Friday night with the caption, "It turns out for pedophiles in Hollywood, 'It's A Small World After All.'" It has amassed 28.3 million views as of Saturday afternoon.

Maher said he was "grossed out" by the revelations in the documentary, adding that "it didn't just expose a dangerous workplace. It also exposed hypocrisy."

During a legal feud with Disney that started when the company's then-CEO Bob Chapek publicly opposed a controversial bill that restricts certain instruction about sexual orientation and gender identity in Florida schools known as the "Don't Say Gay" law, DeSantis accused Disney of adding a lot of "sexuality into the programming for young kids," which the company denied. The legal dispute was settled in March.

Maher referenced a 2014 CNN article that reported that at least 35 Disney employees were arrested on sex crimes involving children since 2006, according to court records and other documentation.

The comedian also mentioned Disney child stars Alyson Stoner, who said in a 2021 People magazine op-ed that she "narrowly survived the toddler-to-trainwreck pipeline," and Cole Sprouse, who told The New York Times in 2022 that the young actresses on the Disney Channel were "heavily sexualized."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: billmaher; childabuse; childrape; children; childsexualization; disney; hollyweird; hollywood; homosexualagenda; kidsnprey; maher; nickelodeon; pedophiles; realtime
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1 posted on 04/24/2024 1:26:47 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
Was it always this way in Hollywood?


2 posted on 04/24/2024 1:30:27 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward SnowdenA)
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To: nickcarraway

I’m glad he’s called out Disney because he’s absolutely right.


3 posted on 04/24/2024 1:31:18 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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4 posted on 04/24/2024 1:32:52 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I wonder if inappropriate behavior went on with these kids as well?


5 posted on 04/24/2024 1:38:34 PM PDT by desertsolitaire
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To: desertsolitaire

Back to the beginning of time.


6 posted on 04/24/2024 1:41:53 PM PDT by calljack (Sometimes your worst nightmare is just a start.)
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To: nickcarraway
known as the "Don't Say Gay" law,

Newsweak has to get that radical Left propaganda into the story. Its only known as "Don't Say Gay" by those promoting the gay agenda.

7 posted on 04/24/2024 1:48:02 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: desertsolitaire

Doesn’t that comment need a /s tag?


8 posted on 04/24/2024 1:50:38 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“Was it always this way in Hollywood?”

Yes.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/how-the-wizard-of-oz-led-judy-garland-to-fame-and-misery/FC7UJELWQAZGATNXGFUEA2D3OM/


9 posted on 04/24/2024 2:16:30 PM PDT by MeganC ("Russians are subhuman" - posted by Kazan 8 March 2024)
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To: nickcarraway

That Bill Maher - who I wouldn’t invite to my barbecue - is the closest thing in Democrat land to Zell Miller, is astounding.


10 posted on 04/24/2024 2:19:14 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s² )
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To: MeganC

Go read Chaplin’s biography! So, the answer is yes!

Prior to the modern age actors ranked socially with thieves, pickpockets & prostitutes.


11 posted on 04/24/2024 2:22:00 PM PDT by Reily (!!)
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To: nickcarraway

Bill is just angry he’s not invited.


12 posted on 04/24/2024 2:23:17 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Is it me, or all of a sudden have the buried trolls come out on FR like cicadas? It's all noise.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

after she grew out of her teeshirt...


13 posted on 04/24/2024 2:27:40 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: nickcarraway

Don’t forget the pedophiles of DC.


14 posted on 04/24/2024 2:41:49 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money. - M. Thatcher)
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To: DoodleBob

Maher used to be on the left before the Dems moved to the extreme left.


15 posted on 04/24/2024 2:43:32 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money. - M. Thatcher)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
Maher used to be on the left before the Dems moved to the extreme left.

I'm noticing more and more people in my own life who fall are starting to fall under the cartoon Elon Musk infamously tweeted a couple years back:



I wouldn't go so far as to assert that Maher is now right of center as in the cartoon, but the shift is very real. It's also depressing- shows the leftward shift of the Overton window...
16 posted on 04/24/2024 2:52:22 PM PDT by verum ago (I figure some people must truly be in love, for only love can be so blind.)
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To: Reily

You’ll hear this jokingly referred to in shows and movies from time to time. But the truth is that many many actors are the degenerate lowlifes represented in the millennia-old stereotype


17 posted on 04/24/2024 2:53:44 PM PDT by j.havenfarm (23 years on Free Republic, 12/10/23! More than 8,000 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: DoodleBob

Fetterman is getting closer to that, as well.


18 posted on 04/24/2024 2:55:57 PM PDT by ro_dreaming (Who knew "Idiocracy", "1984", "Enemy of the State", and "Person of Interest" would be non-fiction?)
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To: verum ago

I think that a lot of people who vote DemocRat are starting to be repelled by the liberal movement to the extreme left.


19 posted on 04/24/2024 3:03:20 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money. - M. Thatcher)
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To: j.havenfarm

Actors - the entertainment community in general share a personality trait with those aforementioned lowlifes as do politicians - narcissim. The more narcissistic the worse the person.


20 posted on 04/24/2024 3:08:41 PM PDT by Reily (!!)
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