Maher Goes Off on GOP Charleston Reactions: ‘Isn’t Denying Racism a Form of Racism?’

Bill Maher tonight really went off on the Republican reactions to the Charleston shooting, asking, “Isn’t denying racism itself a form of racism?”

MSNBC’s Joy Reid said that any time people on the right want to talk about “healing,” it “always has to come… from African-Americans saying ‘No foul.'” He, Maher, and Congressman Luis Gutierrez also went after the Confederate flag at the South Carolina state capitol.

When Maher remarked that he has an inkling of where the shooter got his news, The Daily Caller’s Matt Lewis protested Maher’s insinuations. Maher shot back by saying his website has a “lot of stories about black people” presented in a very specific way, and so he thinks the media is “responsible to a degree.”

Lewis tried to point to how the shooting happened in a church and he would never blame Maher, an outspoken atheist, for the violence. Maher and Reid called that a ridiculous non-sequiter.

Gutierrez also found a correlation between what the shooter reportedly said and things the tea party said in President Obama‘s first year.

Watch the video below, via HBO:

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