Bill Maher Trashes Celebs at Emmys for Not Condemning Charlie Kirk Assassination: ‘Would It Have Killed Someone To Get Up There?’
Bill Maher blasted celebrities who attended last week’s Emmy Awards and did not publicly condemn the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
On Friday’s Real Time, Maher blasted reactions on the left to Kirk’s assassination and singled out celebrities who attended the 77th Emmy Awards. Alex Wagner and Joe Manchin joined Maher’s table for the panel discussion.
Maher said:
At the Emmys, would it have killed someone to get up there — since they all want to talk about their politics — would it have kill somebody to get up there, not give a speech about how much they like Charlie Kirk, just to say, we had a political assassination this week, and that’s wrong, and we should — they would have been booed off the stage because he was on the wrong team, so you’re not even allowed to say that. Can you imagine if a left-wing person was assassinated that week, the whole show would have been about that.
Wagner seemed hesitant to agree with Maher, making the host push further.
“Is that not true? Can’t you admit that?” he said.
“The Charlie Kirk assassination needs to be reframed as an issue of how our democracy actually functions and survives. We cannot be assassinating people who are different from us, who believe different things. Full stop,” Wagner said. “Charlie Kirk’s assassination is as bad for Democrats as it should be for, as it is for Republicans. It is not okay. And everybody needs to get on that same page.”
Wagner went on to accuse the current administration of pushing “hate and vitriol” into political discourse.
“I understand why people don’t have the stomach for it sometimes,” she said.
Check out the exchange below:
BILL MAHER: The left does have this bad attitude of go no contact. I mean that’s the big thing with your family.
JOE MANCHIN: In my little family farm in West Virginia where I was raised, my grandmother took everybody in. Back in the 50s, there was no social services. She made us little kids —
MAHER: No, they believe in not talking to members of your family. I mean, at the Emmys, would it have killed someone to get up there — since they all want to talk about their politics — would it have kill somebody to get up there, not give a speech about how much they like Charlie Kirk, just to say, we had a political assassination this week, and that’s wrong, and we should — they would have been booed off the stage because he was on the wrong team, so you’re not even allowed to say that. Can you imagine if a left-wing person was assassinated that week, the whole show would have been about that.
ALEX WAGNER: I just, I mean —
MAHER: Is that not true? Can’t you admit that?
WAGNER: I think this needs — the Charlie Kirk assassination needs to be reframed as an issue of how our democracy actually functions and survives. We cannot be assassinating people who are different from us, who believe different things. Full stop. Charlie Kirk’s assassination is as bad for Democrats as it should be for, as it is for Republicans. It is not okay. And, like, everybody needs to get on that same page. And you can, you do not have to agree with what he said or what he believed in, but you have to mourn what his death represents. And that is not a good thing.
MAHER: And him, as a human. As a human!
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