Bill Maher: ‘I’m Not Really Scared of ISIS,’ Stop Making Them a ‘Boogeyman’

Bill Maher joined Chris Matthews at the top of tonight’s Hardball to discuss ISIS and President Obama‘s speech tonight. And to Maher, people need to stop hyping ISIS as some kind of “boogeyman” that could attack the U.S. at any minute. He admitted, “I’m not really scared of ISIS,” and told Matthews the American people want to hear “tough talk” from Obama instead of any concrete action to back up that talk.

Maher found the beheadings of American journalists to be vicious and horrible, but observed that “it’s so easy to bait Americans,” and “we just lurch from one emotional response to the next, and that’s not really a way to conduct foreign policy.”

He said he’s not too worried about what Obama will say because he’s a “calm guy” and doesn’t “organize our foreign policy based on what the crazies will say and do.”

Watch the segment below, via MSNBC:

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