Bill Maher Issues Blunt Takedown of Kamala Harris’ Failed Presidential Campaign
Bill Maher issued a blunt takedown of Kamala Harris, her new book 107 Days, and her failed 2024 presidential campaign.
On the Friday, October 3 episode of Real Time With Bill Maher, the comedian, 69, spoke about the former vice president’s new memoir. He led into the topic by pointing out that the toy company Mattel has six men and five women on its board of directors and not an all-male board as portrayed in the 2023 movie Barbie.
“Perpetuating victimhood, especially when it’s false, is not a great advertisement for leadership,” he declared on his HBO late-night show. “Kamala Harris’ new memoir of the 2024 election is called 107 Days. But it should have been called Everyone Sucks But Me.”
Maher continued, “107 Days is a victim’s title because, get it, she only had 107 days to win. Yeah, and a billion and a half dollars. And a built-in army of about 75 million people who’d vote for any human-adjacent life form that wasn’t Trump. But, in 107 Days, nothing is ever Kamala’s fault.”
In his “New Rule” segment, Maher noted that former President Joe Biden let Harris down by not stepping down from the 2024 presidential race sooner. California Governor Gavin Newsom also failed to endorse her.
“America itself lets Kamala down by not being ‘ready’ for the running mate she really wanted, Pete Buttigieg,” he added. “So she stuck with the Home Depot paint salesman [Tim Walz], and the rest is herstory. Poor Kamala. We made her the star of a rom-com and didn’t even give her a gay best friend.”
Maher detailed from the memoir, “Kamala writes that on election night, when it was clear she had lost, an aide peeled the words “Madame President’ off the cupcakes before handing them out. Oh geez, it’s like a scene from Bridget Jones Runs for President, for Christ’s sake.”
In wrapping up his thoughts on the topic, Maher offered advice to Democratic women.
“Look, ladies, I know this isn’t fair. But we’re all always running against the worst cliche of who people think we are,” he pointed out. “Women Democrats can’t look oversensitive or preachy or unable to laugh at themselves. They also can’t look silly like Gretchen Whitmer did trying to hide in the Oval Office. They have to look brave and strong.”
He added, “It wasn’t a good look for the woman party that all the guys were speaking out for Jimmy Kimmel when [Donald] Trump went after him except on the woman show [The View], where for five days, the outspoken hosts were suddenly as quiet as a geisha. Then on the sixth day, they rose and said, ‘No one silences us.’ Uh, no one had to. You silenced yourself.”
To conclude the segment, Maher quipped, “Whoopi Goldberg continued, ‘Did y’all really think we weren’t going to talk about Jimmy Kimmel?’ No, I thought you would, but then you didn’t. Five days? Talk about needing extra time to get ready. And if you can’t take a breath and laugh at that, you’re making my point for me.”
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He is more spot on than ever. For so long we have listened to the prather of people who just hate for the sake of hating. He has risked his career to speak truth and not go along with the insanity of the far Left. The far Left has left the sane Left behind. They have highjacked the party and are leading it over a cliff. What an embarrassment. Keep speaking truth Bill.
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I think I'm glad I am NOT a Whoppi or any of those other women that come on that show. Thank goodness I have a working brain!
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Not everyone has to love you Hon.
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The View does not tape on Fridays, Saturdays, or Sundays, so it was only ONE day that they didn't speak about Kimmel. Their reasoning was that they had not heard Kimmel speak as yet, and so they waited like they waited for Stephen Colbert to speak. Maher has a legit complaint that they didn't speak on the two programs they recorded on Thursday September 18, but the "five days to speak" statement doesn't work......unless of course he expected them to speak to the press outside their show, which is likely against their ABC contracts.
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What’s wrong with Bill Maher. He either gets it wrong, or just doesn’t get it.
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Fox News lied to you. You should try looking up the facts around the situations you cite for why you dislike the two woman you mention. You’re allowed to like or dislike whoever you want that is your right however, if you’re going to give reasons why you dislike them the best way to avoid looking poorly is if you use factual ones and not republican talking points used dissuade people from voting for them. Everything you cited is heavily opinion-based with exaggerations and some inaccurate or misleading factual claims. Furthermore Personally blaming Harris for crimes committed by undocumented immigrants is like holding everyone who voter for Donald Trump accountable for the crimes that happen presidency. Decisions made by leaders can affect policies, but they do not give voters or leaders direct responsibility for the independent actions of individuals.
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Bill is a real fool . He wants to believe that he is the brightest boy in the class.. Nobody cares at this point what he thinks. If you asked me, I think he's closested bigi. His show use to be, one of favourite shows on Friday night but not more. This both side do it, is plain nonsense and he just needs to stop it.
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Maher continues to sully Kamala Harris to a degree that almost sounds like a personal form of hatred. Its time for him to get off of her case. He should also think twice about using degrading terms when referring to women's genitalia and breasts. He sounds like a cheap Vegas lounge act.
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I'm sorry, but we had a real chance to have a woman president. Kamala wasn't popular as vice president. She speaks to people like we're all stupid. She seems to have taking speaking lessons from Elmo. For the second time the Democrat Party has failed us. They select women who are already hated (Hillary) with sullied reputations (the money missing when she was Secretary of State, the abandonment of her duty to send help in Benghazi - if Chelsea had been there, help would have been there). Kamala had one significant job assigned to her as VP - border Czar. She failed spectacularly, allowing the invasioin of our country by over 10 million. Young women and children trafficked across the border by the thousands, living lives of horror. The Fentanyl deaths in the thousands. The victims of crime by illegals (Kate Steinle, Laken Riley, Irena, Rachel Morin and thousands more.) All should be alive today, except for the deliberate failure of Kamala Harris. Blood on her hands and blood on Hillary's hands from Benghazi. There are competent, decent women in politics. Why were these two corrupted specimens selected? Because they could be bought. It was only about power for them.
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Bill is a huge misogynist so his opinion means nada.
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Excellent analogy!!
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