Maher Trashes Ahmed Mohamed: ‘He Did Not Invent Anything!’

Last week, Bill Maher went off on all the liberals glomming on to Ahmed Mohamed, the Texas teen arrested for bringing a homemade clock to class that a teacher thought was a bomb. Maher said that liberals need to stop being so politically correct and consider that maybe in a world where young Muslims are making things to blow people up, it doesn’t hurt anyone to be a little cautious.

Well, tonight Maher kept going, saying that while he has nothing against Mohamed, “he did not invent anything!”

He said that he just put clock parts into something else and it “looked exactly like a bomb,” but Ron Reagan Jr. pushed back and said it lacked some of the important essentials of a bomb.

Maher told him teachers wouldn’t know that, and found it a little ridiculous that Google invited him to a big science fair as a result of this controversy.

Watch the video above, via HBO.

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