‘Wolf, It’s Over!’ Maher Blasts CNN for Refusal to Move On from MH370

Bill Maher used his final New Rule Friday night to tell CNN it’s time to stop obsessively covering MH370 already and just move on. He said to anyone still glued to CNN, “You’re not a caring person unraveling a mystery, you’re just a ghoul sitting on the remote.”

Maher exasperatedly explained that millions and millions are being spent on a search that could last for years, and beyond CNN caring about it, maybe the search for the plane just needs to end. He pointed out plane travel is statistically very safe now and said, “You know what’s riskier? Everything. Driving. Walking. Taking a shower. Living in Chicago. Hunting with Dick Cheney. Dating Chris Brown.”

He determined that the public’s fascination with the missing plane is based on our “obsessive need for the magic of closure,” and assured people that sometimes in life, we don’t get the answers to everything. Sometimes “it’s okay to quit looking.”

Watch the video below, via HBO:

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