Bill Maher and John Cleese Torch The New York Times: ‘We’re So F**ked’

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Bill Maher and Monty Python’s John Cleese lamented the state of The New York Times on the latest episode of the Club Random podcast.

While discussing their distaste for “woke” politics, Maher and Cleese honed in on the Times with Maher admitting a recent read had him walking away thinking, “we’re so fucked.” Maher was referring to a section of the paper where readers sounded off.

“I’m just reading this thinking, ‘oh, we’re so fucked.’ They’re just saying the dumbest shit and it’s printed in The New York Times,” Maher said.

“I used to think that was a great newspaper, but I don’t anymore,” Cleese added.

“I don’t either. It’s sad because it was, like, on my breakfast table when I was a kid,” Maher said.

Cleese added that the Times could once be reliably referred to as a “paper of record,” but he didn’t think that was true anymore.

Maher admitted the paper is “certainly more successful than ever” and praised some columnists, but accused the paper of too much “editorializing,” even in subtle ways in straight news stories.

“What is annoying about it is that it’s not just, ‘just give me the facts.’ There’s way too much editorializing on the front page, the way the articles that are supposed to be the facts kind of articles are slanted one way. I’m not even necessarily for the other side,” the comedian said. “I just want someone to tell me the whole truth, not just your version of it because you can lie by what you omit. And they do. Both sides do.”

Watch above via Club Random. The New York Times discussion begins at approximately 53:55.