Trouble in Paradise: Tlaib Calls for Boycott of Maher’s Show, He Calls BDS “Bulls**T” Purity Test
18th August 2019
The fall-out continues from Bill Maher’s HBO show this weekend. Yesterday I wrote about an opinion he expressed during Friday’s Real Time with Bill Maher – a recession would be worth it to get rid of President Trump in 2020. That idea put into a discussion with his panel of guests was deeply disturbing as it showed Maher’s willingness to wish harm to Americans to satisfy his political hopes.
Political partisanship is always about winning rather than improving. If one’s position is that one’s opponent’s proposal is defective, your natural incentive is to demonstrate it in reality by working to make sure that said proposal fails. This is an inevitable component of human nature.
Tlaib certainly knows that there is no chance that her ‘base’ will agree to boycott Maher’s show, but she only has a limited toolbox to work with.
Maher has supported so many left-wing bullshit purity tests over the years that it’s a puzzle why he objects to this one.