Maher: Rolling Stone ‘Worked Backwards’ from a Conclusion, Like Bush with Iraq

In the Overtime segment of his show last night, Bill Maher and his panelists piled on Rolling Stone in the wake of a damning report on their massive screw-up in the UVA rape case. Maher remarked on how they managed to find the one fraternity on the one night “where there wasn’t a rape.”

Christina Bellantoni called it a “collective failure of journalism,” while Ross Douthat said it was clearly “too good” for them to pass up, until it quickly became a “complete shitshow from beginning to end.”

Maher said the problem with Rolling Stone is the same one the Bush administration had in the lead-up to the Iraq war: “you can’t work backwards from the result you want.” The difference between the two, he said, is that rape “really is an issue,” as opposed to the claims of WMDs.

Watch the full Overtime segment here, via HBO:

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