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Bill Maher Torches Virtue-Signaling Lefty Celebs For Ditching Causes Once They're Not The...

• https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden

After another awards show shitshow of anti-Trump-ism at The Grammy's, Bill Maher has had it with Hollywood's relentless virtue signaling, and during his latest monologue on his HBO show Real Time with Bill Maher.

And he really let the glitterati have it. 

Maher, a leftist liberal himself, began with mock enthusiasm for the endless parade of political posturing that now infects every red-carpet event.

"How about everybody drop the politics for a couple of hours," he quipped, "and just enjoy these happy, dopey celebrations of show business?" 

At last month's Golden Globes awards, a number of celebrities wore small, stylized pins tied to the Renee Good shooting, including vague slogans like "BE GOOD" and "ICE OUT." 

"Of course, this is for the mother who was murdered by an ICE agent, and it's really sad. I know people are out marching and all today, and we need to speak up," actress Wanda Sykes told Variety on the red carpet before the award show. "We need to be out there and shut this rogue government down, because it's just awful what they're doing to people." 

Maher, who was also at the event, recalled a reporter asking him why he wasn't wearing a lapel pin at the Golden Globes last month for the shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis. At the time, he said, "Well, it was a terrible thing that happened, and it shouldn't have happened, and if they didn't act like such thugs, it wouldn't have had to happen. But I don't need to wear a pin about it." He then added, "If I had the chance to think about it, my answer would be exactly the same."

Maher then skewered the hysteria that followed his comments at the Golden Globes, where critics accused him of "refusing to join Golden Globes activism." 

His reply dripped with sarcasm.

"Golden Globes activism? Oh, you mean the activism of fixing a fucking pin to my suit? I'm sorry, it clashed with my keffiyeh." He mocked the self-congratulation behind Hollywood's symbolic gestures. "I hope I didn't spoil the perfect record of pins and ribbons solving all the world's problems. You can't name a problem, from guns to AIDS to bullying to breast cancer, that still exists after people wore a ribbon for it—except all of them."


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