Bill Maher Launches Vile Attack on 16-Year-Old Covington Student: 'What a Little P***k'
So the full video from the incident at the March for Life has been analyzed to death, and the one thing that most of us seem to get at this point is that this was a far more complicated incident than originally reported.
It’s also clear that Nicholas Sandmann, the 16-year-old student initially accused of arrant racism, clearly wasn’t the instigator that he was portrayed as.
Liberal talk show host Bill Maher, however, isn’t quite online with that theory.
No, he believes that the student was a privileged “little p***k” who’s responsible for the incident — because, you know, hot takes are fun.
“Everyone is talking about the smirk heard round the world,” Maher said in the monologue to the Friday edition of his HBO show, “Real Time with Bill Maher.”
In a typically vulgarity-fueled segment, Maher blamed everyone involved, but especially Sandmann, saying that what he did was a “d— move at any age.”
“I don’t blame the kid, the smirking kid,” Maher said.
“I blame lead poisoning and bad parenting. And, oh yeah, I blame the f——- kid. What a little prick. Smirk-face!”
“If you ask me, this kid should have done what everyone does during a drum solo, leave,” he continued.
As The Daily Caller noted, Sandmann has said he would have left had the situation occurred again.
Oh, and there was a Catholic Church sexual abuse joke, too:
“I don’t spend a lot of time around Catholic schoolchildren, but I do not get what Catholic priests see in these kids.” Hee-larious.
Here’s the segment, which we must warn you is not safe for work due to language. Viewer discretion is advised.
Naturally, Maher had nothing to critical to say about Nathan Phillips, the Native American activist who actully precipitated the confrontation.
Sandmann has essentially become a Rorschach test for the left: Even with a paucity of evidence he did anything wrong, liberals see a young white man from a private school with a “Make America Great Again” hat on and draw their own conclusions about his intentions and potential bigotries.
The problem with this, however, isn’t just the lack of evidence. Sandmann is 16. He’s two years away from being an adult. This is who Bill Maher — a 63-year-old extremely privileged, extremely white man — is punching down on?
Maher’s profanity-filled sneer-fests are enough to make anyone’s eyes roll normally, but they’re usually directed at adults. You may think they’re in bad taste, but they’re someone’s legitimate opinion. (I tend to think that opinion is wrong 80 percent of the time, but so it goes.)
When you’re attacking kids and ascribing untoward motives to them, that’s quite a bit different. That’s crossing a line entertainers ought never breach.
In other words, I blame the smirking host — and members of the media who are still desperate to hold onto their narrative.
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