Amy Landecker Calls Bill Maher a ‘Hypocrite’ After He Criticizes Husband Bradley Whitford
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- Amy Landecker criticized Bill Maher for repeatedly attacking her husband, Bradley Whitford, calling Maher.
- The dispute stems from Maher’s comments on his HBO show, where he denounced Whitford for criticizing Cheryl Hines’ silence regarding her husband Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
- Both Landecker and Whitford mocked Maher’s complaints about cancel culture and accused him of being defensive and hypocritical about who is allowed to express political views.
Amy Landecker, star of Transparent and wife of Bradley Whitford, has told Bill Maher to keep her husband’s name out of his mouth.
“If Bill Maher wants to come after my freaking husband one more time and complain about the fact that people who are known are having an opinion…” Landecker said in a new interview for The Daily Beast’s Obsessed podcast. “Who is he? What is he famous for? Just being known and having an opinion. And then coming after [Whitford] and going, ‘Oh, you’re the worst kind of liberal.’ Well, to me, he’s the worst kind of hypocrite.”
Landecker was referencing Maher’s ranting about Whitford on HBO’s Real Time in September 2024. In that episode, Maher ranted about Whitford criticizing Cheryl Hines for not speaking out about her husband, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., as he supported Donald Trump, who was celebrating the downfall of Roe v. Wade at the time.
“Hey @CherylHines, way to stay silent while your lunatic husband throws his support behind the adjudicated rapist who brags about stripping women of their fundamental rights,” Whitford had tweeted. “Gutsy. Great example for the kids. Profile in courage.”
On Real Time, Maher said, “You know what I think is not gutsy? Mansplaining to a woman — but, of course, not to her face — how she should sacrifice her marriage, all so you could read something on Twitter that met with your approval.”
He continued: “You want to know why I have a bug up my a** about the left more than I used to? It’s s*** like this,” Maher said. “There’s an ugliness they never used to have. The liberals I grew up respecting, none of them are like this. Going after the wife? Even the mafia doesn’t do that.”
Maher also said he used to know Whitford and said the West Wing alum wasn’t “this guy” at the time. “While he may relish writing Cheryl Hines off, I’m not writing him off,” he said. “Because that’s not the way to handle this. … We have to resist the siren call of being an a**hole.”
On Obsessed, Whitford said Maher is now like “the grandpa on the porch yelling.”
Addressing Maher, Landecker added: “You’re a f***ing stoner who makes $7 trillion, and you’re going to complain that you are canceled? First of all, why are you so grumpy? You are literally the most angry stoner I’ve ever met in my entire life. Plus, your show has never been bigger, so shut up about being cancelled.”
“No, he’s worried about cancel culture on this, his 35th year of hosting a show,” Whitford chimed in with a chuckle. “And the thing that made me laugh the other day was when he went after Billie Eilish for criticizing ICE, as if the young kids don’t understand the gifts of Western culture. Like, talk about like defensive. Should young people not be upset about people with no judicial process being warehoused? … He’s a comedian talking about politics, and he doesn’t want anybody else to express an opinion.”
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she's not wrong. always been an ass h*le but now he's become a royal dick
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I highly agree with Whitford in that last paragraph!
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They are absolutely right, Maher is a hypocrite, telling Billy Eilish shes wrong, what an ass, we did steal this land from the indians, and Bill had to say shes young and ignorant for saying that, what a joke, then you have Mike Huckabee saying the whole Middle East should belong to Israel, just saying if thats the case, than Billy Eilish is right. she doesnt need the king hipster doofus Maher mansplaning anything to her.
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Gee Sam, Clinton was in the 90s and it was a consensual act. Trump on the other hand....
And here let me fix the line that seems to bother you- Trump has been found liable for rape by a jury, and been found guilty of 34 felonies, the only president to ever have a single felony, much less 34 of them. Is that better? Your hero is not a good person, Sam.
So, by all means continue your 30 year old whataboutisms and your "what we do is fine, what the other side does is not."
The credibility of virtually everyone you're trying to defend is completely gone from doing just that-and it will continue to erode as long as you all continue to spin everything while trying to "clean up" after your messiah makes another idiotic statement like "Iran's Nuclear capabilities have been totally obliterated" and then a few months later saying we need to go to war bc they are not far from having nukes (paraphrasing obv).
Before you start screaming "Woke Liberal" or some of the other silly things that are commonly tossed around (by both sides), know that I am an independent voter.
Sam, you're certainly entitled to your opinion but here's a tip-Don't believe everything Fox tells you to. Thinking for yourself may be scary, but it's better than whatever that post was.
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That's is simply a lie. He was NOT found "liable for rape". You are TWISTING reality to feed your TDS.
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Um, is it, Waffler? I guess this is wrong then?
Last updated October 1, 2024 In Carroll v. Trump, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York reviewed the damages awarded to Donald Trump’s sexual battery victim. The high-profile 2023 case began when E. Jean Carroll sued Donald Trump for sexual assault and defamation. The federal jury implicitly found that Trump deliberately and forcibly penetrated Ms. Carroll with his fingers in the 1990s. As a result, it found him liable for sexually abusing her. It also found Trump liable for defaming Carroll in 2022 when he denied her allegations. The jury awarded her $5 million in total damages:$2 million in compensatory damages for sexual battery$2.7 million in compensatory damages for defamation$280,000 in punitive damages for defamation
Here's a quote from the judge who felt it necessary to confirm the results after people like you were saying exactly what you are saying now-
Judge Clarifies: "Yes, Trump was found to have r@ped E Jean Carrol"
That's a headline from the WaPo.
You can believe whatever you want, that doesn't make it true.
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He said it was their birthright; look it up.
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Ah, so our Fox news group chimes in to tell us that all any news that reports bad things about a certain party are false, whereas all the things you hear on Fox are true.
Good grief, Huck, turn off the TV and crack a book now and then.
Further, your dear leader can't stop lying and you geniuses lap it up. And your stats about how independents vote? Pure nonsense. Independents are who got Trump elected, but based on what he's done while in office? You can bet they won't be voting the same way this time around. You can make stuff up all you like, that doesn't make them a FACT!!!!!! like putzes like to write. As if all caps and exclamation points mean it's true.
Look Sparky, I appreciate your ardor, but it is misguided. Your man is a disaster. He's immoral, unethical, incredibly childish, and completely unfit for the office of president. Heck, I wouldn't let him manage a 7-11, bc he'd probably attack the Maverick Station a few blocks away. Pretty much everyone knows this except, well....fanboys like you.
So, keep watching WWF and getting your "news" from the station that when they were sued for slander Fox lawyers claimed no reasonable person thinks this is anything but entertainment. The judge (A trump appointee) said '....exaggeration,' 'non-literal commentary,' or simply bloviating for his audience, the conclusion remains the same — the statements are not actionable."
Fox won the case based on that defense.
Are you a reasonable person Mr. Guest?
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13 and bites?
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How exactly does one "lie their teeth out?"
I think you mean "lying through their teeth," genius.
Good grief, no wonder you go by "A Guest" bc based on your performance, putting your name here would probably not be a good idea. In fact, you may want to leave the comments to people who have cracked a book. No wonder you gobble up whatever nonsense they tell you to.
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"To?" I think you mean, "too" genius. And you're back at the random caps again. I'm guessing you aren't an English major, are you? Glad to see you've had enough and stopped replying. Busting you up was getting boring.
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"So the GOP will win Huge in the midterms and in 2028 !!" I bet you thought Trump would win in a landslide in 2020 too! And, no, he was NEVER CHEATED out of that presidential election despite his asinine claims otherwise!
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OMG it's not about "having an opinion." And it's not about where Maher is in his career. It's about celebrities having such woefully ill-informed opinions. And like Maher said, it's about being ugly about it. (Also, Trump is NOT an "adjudicated rapist" so there's that. Like they cared about that when Bill Clinton was the accused one!)
And does the "opinion" ALWAYS have to include f-bombs. It's one thing for wise ass college kids to shout FJB at a football game. It's another when far more prominent people do things like that and think they've said something to be taken seriously.