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Bill Maher chastises leftstream media for COVID panic porn

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https://dailycaller.com/2021/04/17/bill-...anic-porn/

EXCERPTS: . . . The U.S. media, Maher said, has consistently painted a more negative picture of the pandemic than other outlets around the world. While the coverage in other countries has mixed the positive news in with the negative, he noted that American media coverage has remained nearly 90% negative.

[...] Bill Maher then noted that, according to a Gallup survey on coronavirus, Democrats have been “wildly off” on the question asking how likely it was for someone who had COVID-19 to require hospitalization. Just 10% of Democrats gave the correct answer — 1 to 5% — while 41% of Democrats believed more than 50% of those infected would need to be hospitalized.

According to that same survey, Maher said that Democrats greatly exaggerated views of how dangerous COVID-19 was to children — which he said could be the reason that the majority of schools that have remained closed are in blue states. “So if the right-wing media bubble has to own things like climate change denial, shouldn’t liberal media have to answer for ‘How did your audience wind up believing such bunch of crap about COVID?'” Maher asked.

Maher even praised Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, adding, “And maybe that’s why he protected his most vulnerable population, the elderly, way better than did the governor of New York. [...] I don’t want politics mixed in with my medical decisions!” Maher concluded. “If you lie to people, even for a very good cause, you lose their trust.” (MORE - details)

RELATED (April 12, 2021): How the media's hypocrisy undermines critical thinking in the age of COVID


applicable segment from "Real Time with Bill Maher"

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/Qp3gy_CLXho
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Bill Maher Rants About Covid-19 Coronavirus, Here Are The Issues With What He Said
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/20...t-he-said/

INTRO: Bill Maher is at it again. In the most recent episode of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, the host of the show talked about the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. Unfortunately, the segment was missing an important guest: science.

As you can see in the following clip, Maher started off the segment claiming that “over the past year the pandemic has prompted the medical establishment, the media, and the government to take a scared straight approach, to getting the public to comply with their recommendations:”

Holy conspiracy theories, Batman. Is Maher actually suggesting that the medical establishment, media, and government are in cahoots to scare the public? (MORE)

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(Nov, 2016) Anti-Vaxxer Bill Maher Preaches The Importance Of Knowledge
https://www.acsh.org/news/2016/11/04/ant...edge-10407

EXCERPTS: Recently, Bill Maher instructed America on the importance of knowledge. He's right, of course, but he's a rather imperfect messenger: Listening to him is like receiving a lecture from Bill Clinton or Donald Trump on the importance of marital fidelity.

[...] Mr Maher has chosen to fill his neurons with pseudoscience. He continues to be one of the most visible and influential anti-vaxxers. While bizarrely claiming to be pro-vaccine, in 2015, Mr Maher praised Robert F. Kennedy, Jr for publicizing the myth that vaccines cause autism... (MORE - details)


(Feb, 2015) Bill Maher is an astonishingly anti-science anti-vax crank
https://scienceblogs.com/denialism/2015/...-vax-crank

INTRO: This week's Realtime with Bill Maher was just about the most perfect example I've seen yet that maybe reality doesn't have a liberal bias. Due to the measles outbreak becoming a hot-button issue, and the realization that his smoldering anti-vaccine denialism would not go over well, our weekly debate host decided to instead unleash all of his other incredibly stupid, unscientific beliefs about medicine.

This was astonishing. And because his panel, as usual, is composed largely of political writers and journalists, there was no one to provide a sound scientific counterpoint to the craziness. The sole non-crazy person (on this topic) was the conservative guy!

What a turn around for liberalism. It turns out, the problem hasn't been that conservatives hold the key to anti-science crazy, we just haven't had a good issue to expose the anti-science of the left wing for a while. Maher goes into a list of things he decides are examples of failures of "Western" medicine (because Eastern medicine has figured out cancer or something)... (MORE)
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The Daily Caller completely dropped Maher citing the Gallup comparison to what Republicans believed. Must have been too have for them to swallow Republicans knowing better than Democrats. And as expected, the left continues to eat their own, for even the slightest misstep from leftist orthodoxy.

Never mind that Maher cites Gallup or that DeSantis is absolutely right about protecting the most at risk and how to actually incentivize getting vaccinated. "Anti-science" has become the latest in BS leftist insults, right up there with "racist" (when their own policies hurt minorities the most) and "climate change denial" (even though everyone agrees that the climate has always been changing).
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