Trump is no less corrupt than Hillary. When it comes to voting and policies, people want to choose one or another. I'd choose Hillary over Trump If I were an american. She is definitely more qualified politician. Now, If you think politicians are super corrupt people, that'd mean you think that Hillary is more corrupt than Trump.
Saying "Trump is dumb" undermines a lot of his corruption. I've seen a lot of people hated (and still hate) Hillary for her connections with big business. Trump is big business.
Alexia Tr I write real news headlines for a living. If someone told me to write something like those, I would tell them to fuck off. Those are so horrible, and they exist almost everywhere!
Pat Doyle man, he's been at it for decades. When I first heard him call his own audience stupid I thought he was done..... that was fifteen years ago and he's never stopped doing that
Mark Child 2 things: 1.) He said he respected Clinton because he was honest about being full of shit and 2.) I’d kill to have Carlin back to say what he thinks of Trump and what America is in right now.
Yes, couldn't look up the exact quote immediately. I'm sure he'd be completely validated and depressed about it. Donald isn't honest about being full of shit, but he IS honest about what he feels and won't apologize for it.
He's off sometimes but I think that should be okay as long as it's not blatantly hateful. The issue is self-policing in fear of being attacked by the more vocal and extreme types, basically the ones that also make up the online outage that media companies use to create these sorts of pointless news stories about how "people" are reacting to different things that in the bigger picture mean nothing.
I agree with Maher, but he is letting us, the public, off easy... if people stopped from clicking on those links, the phenomena would disappear in a week.
Jo Pao The Internet has allowed us in the news to see exactly this. People used to complain about all the “negative” news such as murders. But when it’s easily visible that some triple homicide gets way more hits than the board of education vote on teacher salaries or whatever, THE DATA IS RIGHT THERE. Now it’s worse because of how it’s moved on to these type stories. Anything digital gives the publisher deep AF metrics on what works. Facebook makes so much because advertisers will target shit to outraged 19-year-old single children with blue cars who live in eastern Montana.
I agree with you that the technology now allows measuring exactly what gets the most eyes and therefore revenue. Also, news outlets are in the fight of their lives to survives due to competition and so, have to make some hard choices. Don't know if that was your aim though, but while younglings are outraged, it's not like the third age isn't going bonkers too.
I think 90% of the blame is on the dishonest journalists. It's natural and probably good to check something out if it's a huge controversy or If everyone is on about it, because your life or income might depend on knowing what's going on. That's assuming these journalists were not producing clickbaits. But they're dishonest, and use terms like people, everyone, the internet, to produce a sense in you that there's something potentially big going on and you're still out of the loop. So you click so you can be in it.
I completely agree with you! Good morning? Are you kidding me? I thought winter was over and today it is 53F here in Florida and I'm freezing my ass off!
There are always enough people out there waiting to be offended by something not matter how trivial. #DontGetAngrierThanTheVictim #DontGetMadderThanTheVictim
PC weenies came to watch the recording of a show carrying the name “politically incorrect,” and were shocked by the host’s monologue? Why did the snowflake cross the road? To be melted and evaporated by the raging fire across the street, clearly visible from far away.
Well because he called out Buzzfeed and Salon and the Huffington Post so they all clam up. If he had said the same thing but used Fox News and Breitbart as his examples they would have all been clapping like seals.
I found that interesting too. Usually his crowd is lathering him up and laughing and agreeing with everything he says, but it sounded like they didn't know what to do. Most people secretly agree, but like a dog who has been hit too many times for doing something, they didn't want to take that chance.
“It’s the same three people!” Spot on lol. Been saying that for years. For a certain subculture finding offense on Twitter is itself a past time - there’s rarely a direct connection to the individual/product/etc in question, it’s just people who get off on this. They can keep going, free country. But we’re fully capable of treating them less seriously.
That's what actual Journalistic outlets where for the golden age of the 4th estate. Independent freelance Investigative journalists that went out and made stories that News outlets would then solicit/curate and present to their readers. During the "Operation Mockingbird" era after Truman created the CIA.. we found out that the CIA and large journalistic entities where recruiting people out of University and funding their own narrative driven stories. (Google it) Now this is Common practice in "Journalism" Now people have to actively seek people they trust that spend their time vetting and fact checking stories.. As people work 40-50 hours a week and don't have time to fact check everything personally. CNN and MSNBC and especially Bill Maher are the last people to care about facts if it does not fit their narrative. Investigative journalism in the USA is now illegal under the PATRIOT act and how precedent with the Espionage act works. The best investigative journalists still alive work for out of country news outlets.. That are considered by the Mainstream as "Foreign entities". Journalism in the USA is dead. And the CIA killed it. Created by an Un-elected president who also dropped 2 Nuclear bombs, Started the Korean war leading to 8 million dead, Backstabbed the Soviets and Wrote the "Truman Doctrine" which lead the world into Mass nuclear proliferation and the Cold War. Bill Maher is literally part of the white washing of our history and journalism to talk about some trolls on twitter. He could actually be informing people. Selective mis/disinformation.. aiming to control the parameters of the debate before it even starts.
This episode was pretty much spot on. and had some strong words about what we are facing in the way we are communicating with each other. in the world right now but I don't think Bill Maher realizes that by the end of this video. not a single person will come away from it with a different attitude. not one thing will be learned and not one problem will have been solved. seems futile to me.
If we actually paid for online journalism perhaps journalists wouldn't have to stoop so low to get views. Journalism is dying, and they're doing what they can to survive.
Hey Robin Hood! I was actually talking about newspapers such as The NY Times and The Guardian, amongst others, who cover (not exclusively, but also) "stupid" stories like these to attract readership. I agree that this is a terrible situation. If you're interested, there's a great book on how to "save" the media and independent, thoughtful journalism by Julia Cage, called "Saving the Media: Capitalism, Crowdfunding and Democracy". You can order it on amazon: www.amazon.com/Saving-Media-Capitalism-Crowdfunding-Democracy/dp/0674659759/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1520076416&sr=8-1&keywords=julia+cagé I actually believe that strong reporting is essential to keep our leaders in check and make democracy function. I can observe that clearly, as someone who works in the public sector myself.
If I'm a baker, and people stop eating baking, I'd be pretty dumb to continue to bake and expect people to buy my wares anyways. It's called adapting to the new reality of the market, which, unfortunately, they have done masterfully. The new market is the problem. People are eating up tge garbage.
There's a difference between "fake news" and click bait. Fake news is anything that has no veracity to it whatsoever. Click bait is actual stories or news that uses exaggerated headlines to bait you to click on it, see: Buzzfeed, etc etc.
I think click bate news is an spectrum with different levels of exageration, misleading headlines and distortion of the truth, with fake news being at an extreme of that spectrum. Plus, the motivation is the same: increase web traffic and ad revenue.
In one instance it's just lies or a misleading account of facts, in the other, completely irrelevant stuff that may or may not be lies. Different things, but rarely under "click baits" there would be "actual news". More like plausibly-non-lying "news".
onpoc - _"Plus, the motivation is the same: increase web traffic and ad revenue."_ I believe both have different motivations. While clickbait is indeed focussed on increasing revenue, I truely believe fake news is being created to influence one's opinion. And then there is non-news, like reports on so called twitter outrages, bears eating peanuts from a man's hand, a baby elephant being "rescued" from some didge, or some bank CEO got a 50% raise.
I know Arianna Huffington is one of Bill's friends and I know she no longer owns the Huffington Post but he needs to admit that she started a rag too. The headlines and leads of most stories are click bait and are very poor in selection and content - not quite fake but mostly irrelevant and misleading.
I agree with the premise. Journalism has been redefined due to the bottom line.Only without capitalism there would not have been journalism. Truth has no apparent value. With Value equal to maximum emotional response.
Rja2 it's got nothing to do with being left wing or not. It's not their political ideology that drives them, it's their preference to earning money off of clicks.
He is calling out people focusing on the outrage in general on both left and right. Being outraged over Starbucks cups or the Jennifer Lawrence thing. If you thought he is calling out just "left wing media" then you are missing the point by a mile.
Ever clicked on the right-wing Daily Mail? They did it to Jennifer Lawrence last week. The headline read, "Lawrence Slammed for being 'rude' to Joanna Lumley". The person they quoted in the headline, some twitter nobody with 10 followers. But Jen is a liberal so she's fair game to the Mail. She wasn't rude to Joanna, but they had trawled through twitter to find someone who was, and made and article out of it. And Fox News did it yesterday with Chris Pratt and Kevin smith. It was the top story on their website. Some twitter cunt said that Pratt offering 'thoughts and prayers from an imaginary deity wont help ill in hospital Smith'. Then all of a sudden Christianity was under attack from the left. I won't lie and say I've not seen websites like HuffPo do it to, but to call it 'left wing media bullshit' is laughable.
Bill CRUSHED the bad guys in this one!! Real liberals should be embarrassed by the trash that HuffPo publishes... I'd greatly appreciate it if some fans of late 70s/early 80s groove would check out my acoustic piano & vocal cover of SEPTEMBER by Earth Wind & Fire on my channel in tribute to Maurice White, one of the greatest musicians that the USA has ever produced. Live acoustic with no autotune. Thanks and RESPECT.
This is why we need EPR (Earned Public Reputation) to be able to assess the actual merit of the identity with the link or whatever. The default setting should be slightly positive, so people without reputations will only be visible to each other (or to people who want to change the default to see them). It should also be biased in favor of positive dimensions, but if a troll or sock puppet or #FatNixon earns the reputation as a lying bastard, then I for one will be glad never to see the aforesaid jackass ever again. (Well, at least not until the identity turns over a new leaf, which is obviously impossible in the case of #PresidentTweety.)
Why do the mindless trolls bray? I don't need to spend time with a jackass like that, but I would be willing, having seen the moron, to help reduce his reputation so as to see less of him in the future--and to help other people ignore him, too. Until such time as the fool becomes a MUCH better person. Sadly, in many cases that means "Never."
Just don't report tweets as news instead. Having some sort of truth-o-meter is a very dangerous and scary proposition. Whoever controls it has way too much power. It's innately flawed by personal biases, but becomes even worse when dishonest people can exploit it. It's much more important that people be left to make up their own minds than everyone agree with you, even if you're right. What you propose is like less extreme version of China's "social credit" system, used to limit behavior to exactly what the government wants. It has no place in a free society, and the user above was right to bring up Orwell.
I'm so happy she is getting back to work. I missed her shenanigans. Her and whoppi are my favorites. Joan must be proud!!! Thanks Bill for putting her on!
Bill doesn't always get it 100% right, but he's one of the few that actually calls out the shit from both sides - and more importantly - can put it in perspective. Keep it up. We need you to.
Great video. 2010s was the decade of information chaos. I hope people get smart about how they process news, and media become more responsible about what news they report, before a horrible event happens because of a misinterpreted tweet
"Bill Maher Calls Out Substandard Journalism And The Internet Is Losing Its Mind!"
Underrated
I love that Bill Maher always seems to be the voice that makes sense.
He's the only one I listen to. The left in now filled with sjw cry babies. As a democrat supporter, he gives me hope
Trump is no less corrupt than Hillary. When it comes to voting and policies, people want to choose one or another. I'd choose Hillary over Trump If I were an american. She is definitely more qualified politician. Now, If you think politicians are super corrupt people, that'd mean you think that Hillary is more corrupt than Trump.
Saying "Trump is dumb" undermines a lot of his corruption. I've seen a lot of people hated (and still hate) Hillary for her connections with big business. Trump is big business.
Yes Hammad, but when you live in a society where comedians are the only voice of reason, you know you are living in troubled times.
He's only one voice. UA-cam has a lot of people saying these same things.
This might be the most relevant video on the internet right now
still relevant today
@@ConnerBoss Still relevent as we speak.
I didnt realise the date on this thing! I dont think anyone listened :s
Still relevant
Still relevant 2021
This statement is bigger than we realize now
I hate those " The Internet is going crazy about this", "And the internet is freaking out", "We cannot even", this last one makes me cringe the most
Alexia Tr I write real news headlines for a living. If someone told me to write something like those, I would tell them to fuck off. Those are so horrible, and they exist almost everywhere!
If at least clickbait headlines were used to bait people into reading actually important stories.
Alexia Tr Well said. Those headlines are so annoying.
Best New Rule of the year
But, at least the internet claps back.
Careful, Bill - telling the truth can be dangerous to your career.
Pat Doyle man, he's been at it for decades. When I first heard him call his own audience stupid I thought he was done..... that was fifteen years ago and he's never stopped doing that
@@baxterbrownentertainment
I don't know. He still attacks PC on the left quite often.
@@baxterbrownentertainment HBO doesn't have sponsors...
I'm a millennial and I just want to say THANK YOU SO MUCH,BILL MAHER AND ALL THE WRITERS WHO CAME UP WITH THIS PARTICULAR NEW RULE SEGMENT.
me: good morning
twitter: but at what cost?
"Did you just assume my emotional status?"
taylor trash - Been there, know that feeling......still a funny comment, thanks for the laugh!
"good in your privileged world, Bill Maher!!!" Yes, this was hilarious.
Morning?! Its NIGHT time in Australia where Aboriginies are suffering. But I suppose you don't care about that....
Love your name lol
George Carlin: “I’ve been saying this shit for years!”
That man once said Bill Clinton was honest for a President. Can you imagine what he'd think today?
Mark Child 2 things: 1.) He said he respected Clinton because he was honest about being full of shit and 2.) I’d kill to have Carlin back to say what he thinks of Trump and what America is in right now.
Yes, couldn't look up the exact quote immediately. I'm sure he'd be completely validated and depressed about it. Donald isn't honest about being full of shit, but he IS honest about what he feels and won't apologize for it.
He's been saying it for years but nobody could hear him through the coffin.
No, He doesn't. He wasn't around when twitter took off.
Bill is the liberal other liberals should strive to be like.
Yeah, but that won't happen anytime soon lol. It's over for the left. We need a new moderate party.
So now you like him, lol. Gtfoh!
Aidan Mackenzie I agree I think the liberals like bill and I would say myself are overshadowed by the far left. Just like moderate conservatives
He's off sometimes but I think that should be okay as long as it's not blatantly hateful. The issue is self-policing in fear of being attacked by the more vocal and extreme types, basically the ones that also make up the online outage that media companies use to create these sorts of pointless news stories about how "people" are reacting to different things that in the bigger picture mean nothing.
Alison N I agree 100%
I agree with Maher, but he is letting us, the public, off easy... if people stopped from clicking on those links, the phenomena would disappear in a week.
Jo Pao The Internet has allowed us in the news to see exactly this. People used to complain about all the “negative” news such as murders. But when it’s easily visible that some triple homicide gets way more hits than the board of education vote on teacher salaries or whatever, THE DATA IS RIGHT THERE. Now it’s worse because of how it’s moved on to these type stories. Anything digital gives the publisher deep AF metrics on what works. Facebook makes so much because advertisers will target shit to outraged 19-year-old single children with blue cars who live in eastern Montana.
I agree with you that the technology now allows measuring exactly what gets the most eyes and therefore revenue. Also, news outlets are in the fight of their lives to survives due to competition and so, have to make some hard choices.
Don't know if that was your aim though, but while younglings are outraged, it's not like the third age isn't going bonkers too.
If people werent stupid we wouldnt have a these problems..schools..thats where critical thinking exercises and debate should start.
Damn straight. More of us than are willing to admit *points to self* occasionally click on these cheap fluff pieces.
I think 90% of the blame is on the dishonest journalists. It's natural and probably good to check something out if it's a huge controversy or If everyone is on about it, because your life or income might depend on knowing what's going on. That's assuming these journalists were not producing clickbaits. But they're dishonest, and use terms like people, everyone, the internet, to produce a sense in you that there's something potentially big going on and you're still out of the loop. So you click so you can be in it.
Good in YOUR privileged world, Bill Maher!
How can he expect us to have a GOOD morning in this fucking weather??? I'm OUTRAGED!
"Morning" in YOUR part of the world, Bill Maher.
It's fake weather. Don't believe the thermostat. It's controlled by the same 3 guys.
Well, that’s one guy. Now we gotta find the other two.
I completely agree with you!
Good morning? Are you kidding me? I thought winter was over and today it is 53F here in Florida and I'm freezing my ass off!
Thank God for someone who thinks outside the Twitter Feed
Absolutely. Well said Bill. Esteemed News organisations should start reporting on REAL news
There are always enough people out there waiting to be offended by something not matter how trivial. #DontGetAngrierThanTheVictim #DontGetMadderThanTheVictim
It is the victimhood Olympics - the most offended wins the gold medal.
very important piece. which is why no one clapped - Americans are so horribly used to P.C that when Bill speaks out the truth the audience is in shock
They were seriously paying attention!
Bills audience is Bill's audience for a reason
PC weenies came to watch the recording of a show carrying the name “politically incorrect,” and were shocked by the host’s monologue?
Why did the snowflake cross the road? To be melted and evaporated by the raging fire across the street, clearly visible from far away.
Well because he called out Buzzfeed and Salon and the Huffington Post so they all clam up. If he had said the same thing but used Fox News and Breitbart as his examples they would have all been clapping like seals.
I found that interesting too. Usually his crowd is lathering him up and laughing and agreeing with everything he says, but it sounded like they didn't know what to do. Most people secretly agree, but like a dog who has been hit too many times for doing something, they didn't want to take that chance.
“It’s the same three people!”
Spot on lol. Been saying that for years. For a certain subculture finding offense on Twitter is itself a past time - there’s rarely a direct connection to the individual/product/etc in question, it’s just people who get off on this.
They can keep going, free country. But we’re fully capable of treating them less seriously.
THANK YOU BILL! SPOT ON!! Bill makes sense and America is moving in the direction he speaks of! BRAVO YOUNG KIDS TOO!
this was real talk, we have a media issue, as a global society we must be able to think for ourselves before reacting.
thank you for this!!
Right on point, Bill!
BRAVO, this needs to be said ~ excellent segment!!! Thank you, Bill!
Bill Maher is an international treasure. Maher for global overlord!
BILL IS A CONSUMERS BRAINTRUST!
I'm literally crying! SO TRUE! You're who I aspire to be! Thank you for being the voice of sanity Bill
My step son's girlfriend refers to herself as a 'journalist' because she 'curates news stories from Twitter ' News is dead.
im deaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad lmao
Well, at least this generation of brainfarts will not steal our jobs, because most of them will never get a clue about working
That's what actual Journalistic outlets where for the golden age of the 4th estate. Independent freelance Investigative journalists that went out and made stories that News outlets would then solicit/curate and present to their readers. During the "Operation Mockingbird" era after Truman created the CIA.. we found out that the CIA and large journalistic entities where recruiting people out of University and funding their own narrative driven stories. (Google it) Now this is Common practice in "Journalism"
Now people have to actively seek people they trust that spend their time vetting and fact checking stories.. As people work 40-50 hours a week and don't have time to fact check everything personally. CNN and MSNBC and especially Bill Maher are the last people to care about facts if it does not fit their narrative.
Investigative journalism in the USA is now illegal under the PATRIOT act and how precedent with the Espionage act works. The best investigative journalists still alive work for out of country news outlets.. That are considered by the Mainstream as "Foreign entities".
Journalism in the USA is dead. And the CIA killed it. Created by an Un-elected president who also dropped 2 Nuclear bombs, Started the Korean war leading to 8 million dead, Backstabbed the Soviets and Wrote the "Truman Doctrine" which lead the world into Mass nuclear proliferation and the Cold War.
Bill Maher is literally part of the white washing of our history and journalism to talk about some trolls on twitter. He could actually be informing people. Selective mis/disinformation.. aiming to control the parameters of the debate before it even starts.
New Message *As opposed to the selectively BS propaganda that gets spoon-fed to us by MSM, right?*
how old is she? lol
Thank you for putting into words what I have been thinking
Please make this trending.
Thank you!!
Tonights episode was good.
I can't wait for the clickbait headlines for this video: "Twitter is pissed at Bill Maher new rules calling out people who are pissed on twitter" 😂
Great piece! EXACTLY the problem with living on social media.
Lol great point Bill. I swear
Good call, Mr. Maher... Allows a discussion, refreshing.
Well, after disagreeing with Bill on every issue for years, I have to concede he is right on this topic.
In other news: The oceans are dying and climate change is real. This is what Twitter should be freaking out at.
Word!
But the earth has been in a perpetual state of "climate change" for 5 billion years....
@@malbowz1257 yeah and mass extinctions occurred because of it dumbass
Took the words out of my mouth.. thanks bill..
Whenever a clickbait headline says I 'won't believe' their story, I think...'why would I read it then?'.
Right on the money! Love Bill Maher's show and New Rules. Keep fighting the good fight.
This episode was pretty much spot on. and had some strong words about what we are facing in the way we are communicating with each other. in the world right now but I don't think Bill Maher realizes that by the end of this video. not a single person will come away from it with a different attitude. not one thing will be learned and not one problem will have been solved. seems futile to me.
Right on Bill! You knocked that one out of the park!
If we actually paid for online journalism perhaps journalists wouldn't have to stoop so low to get views. Journalism is dying, and they're doing what they can to survive.
Hey Robin Hood! I was actually talking about newspapers such as The NY Times and The Guardian, amongst others, who cover (not exclusively, but also) "stupid" stories like these to attract readership. I agree that this is a terrible situation. If you're interested, there's a great book on how to "save" the media and independent, thoughtful journalism by Julia Cage, called "Saving the Media: Capitalism, Crowdfunding and Democracy". You can order it on amazon: www.amazon.com/Saving-Media-Capitalism-Crowdfunding-Democracy/dp/0674659759/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1520076416&sr=8-1&keywords=julia+cagé
I actually believe that strong reporting is essential to keep our leaders in check and make democracy function. I can observe that clearly, as someone who works in the public sector myself.
Robin Hood why is buzzfeed adamant over converting straight people into gay.
The independant media is doing better than it ever has been reporting real news all the time. Mainstream publications just refuse to die
If I'm a baker, and people stop eating baking, I'd be pretty dumb to continue to bake and expect people to buy my wares anyways. It's called adapting to the new reality of the market, which, unfortunately, they have done masterfully. The new market is the problem. People are eating up tge garbage.
Sad but true. Whether we like it or not, people simply click on these stories more often.
Well said!
There's a difference between "fake news" and click bait. Fake news is anything that has no veracity to it whatsoever. Click bait is actual stories or news that uses exaggerated headlines to bait you to click on it, see: Buzzfeed, etc etc.
I think click bate news is an spectrum with different levels of exageration, misleading headlines and distortion of the truth, with fake news being at an extreme of that spectrum. Plus, the motivation is the same: increase web traffic and ad revenue.
In one instance it's just lies or a misleading account of facts, in the other, completely irrelevant stuff that may or may not be lies. Different things, but rarely under "click baits" there would be "actual news". More like plausibly-non-lying "news".
onpoc - _"Plus, the motivation is the same: increase web traffic and ad revenue."_
I believe both have different motivations. While clickbait is indeed focussed on increasing revenue, I truely believe fake news is being created to influence one's opinion. And then there is non-news, like reports on so called twitter outrages, bears eating peanuts from a man's hand, a baby elephant being "rescued" from some didge, or some bank CEO got a 50% raise.
Bill is such a guy who restores my faith in humanity every time I see him
I know Arianna Huffington is one of Bill's friends and I know she no longer owns the Huffington Post but he needs to admit that she started a rag too. The headlines and leads of most stories are click bait and are very poor in selection and content - not quite fake but mostly irrelevant and misleading.
Beautifully said Bill Maher!
I agree with the premise. Journalism has been redefined due to the bottom line.Only without capitalism there would not have been journalism. Truth has no apparent value. With Value equal to maximum emotional response.
Isaac - _"Truth has no apparent value."_
But relevant and verfiable facts do.
I agree 100%
Same in Italy! Thank you, Bill! The voice of reason!
I'm pleasantly surprised that Bill Maher called out left wing media bullshit
Rja2 it's got nothing to do with being left wing or not. It's not their political ideology that drives them, it's their preference to earning money off of clicks.
that's what you got out of his rant?..... not left or right media bullshit...it's was all bullshit that's out there...
He is calling out people focusing on the outrage in general on both left and right. Being outraged over Starbucks cups or the Jennifer Lawrence thing. If you thought he is calling out just "left wing media" then you are missing the point by a mile.
Ever clicked on the right-wing Daily Mail?
They did it to Jennifer Lawrence last week. The headline read, "Lawrence Slammed for being 'rude' to Joanna Lumley".
The person they quoted in the headline, some twitter nobody with 10 followers. But Jen is a liberal so she's fair game to the Mail. She wasn't rude to Joanna, but they had trawled through twitter to find someone who was, and made and article out of it.
And Fox News did it yesterday with Chris Pratt and Kevin smith. It was the top story on their website.
Some twitter cunt said that Pratt offering 'thoughts and prayers from an imaginary deity wont help ill in hospital Smith'.
Then all of a sudden Christianity was under attack from the left.
I won't lie and say I've not seen websites like HuffPo do it to, but to call it 'left wing media bullshit' is laughable.
Rja2 it's not a partisan thing.
“I could say good morning on Twitter and three people would object.” Lol so true!
Bill CRUSHED the bad guys in this one!! Real liberals should be embarrassed by the trash that HuffPo publishes... I'd greatly appreciate it if some fans of late 70s/early 80s groove would check out my acoustic piano & vocal cover of SEPTEMBER by Earth Wind & Fire on my channel in tribute to Maurice White, one of the greatest musicians that the USA has ever produced. Live acoustic with no autotune. Thanks and RESPECT.
Spot on, Bill. Thanks for raising this issue of creating an issue where no real issue exists.
This is why we need EPR (Earned Public Reputation) to be able to assess the actual merit of the identity with the link or whatever. The default setting should be slightly positive, so people without reputations will only be visible to each other (or to people who want to change the default to see them). It should also be biased in favor of positive dimensions, but if a troll or sock puppet or #FatNixon earns the reputation as a lying bastard, then I for one will be glad never to see the aforesaid jackass ever again. (Well, at least not until the identity turns over a new leaf, which is obviously impossible in the case of #PresidentTweety.)
Lol. That is some George Orwell shit. Keep that 1984 in your head please.
Why do the mindless trolls bray? I don't need to spend time with a jackass like that, but I would be willing, having seen the moron, to help reduce his reputation so as to see less of him in the future--and to help other people ignore him, too. Until such time as the fool becomes a MUCH better person. Sadly, in many cases that means "Never."
Just don't report tweets as news instead. Having some sort of truth-o-meter is a very dangerous and scary proposition. Whoever controls it has way too much power. It's innately flawed by personal biases, but becomes even worse when dishonest people can exploit it. It's much more important that people be left to make up their own minds than everyone agree with you, even if you're right.
What you propose is like less extreme version of China's "social credit" system, used to limit behavior to exactly what the government wants. It has no place in a free society, and the user above was right to bring up Orwell.
Outstanding! Been a long time since Bill got it right, but damn did he hit this one out the park! Love it Bill, thank you.
spot on!!!
I wish I could like this a million times!
great point!
Brilliant, and to the point
Excellent segment. This reminded me of the Huffington Post the entire time. Then he finally brings them up. Spot on Maher!
Maher has his moments of awesomeness. This is one of them. ^^
Excellent segment!
Finally someone with insight in middle of so much internet BS
Nicely Said
Well said, Bill
This is the Bill Maher that deserves attention.
well said 👌
Love him for this.
Bring back this version of Bill Maher and people will watch
Finally Bill Maher and I agree!
THIS IS WHY I LOVE YA BILL!!!!!!!
holy. Bill Maher is REASONABLE. I wouldn't be so anti-liberal if liberals we're just friggin reasonable like him
PREACH! If I read one more headline about someone saying something about something somebody else said... then “Twitter’s” gonna explode.
I lean right and still watch bill maher good stuff
Bless Bill for saying this
Truer words have never been spoken.
Straight fire. Preach it Bill.
I would love to see the entire New Rules segment. Thank you.
Bill gives the thinking a voice. Thank you Bill.
Insane how spot on everything he said is.
My journalism degree and 12 years in the biz can’t agree with this more. PREACH, BILL!
Spot on!
This was amazing.
I'm a Rebublican, and I agree with everything he said.
Someone needs to chart how much actual news is on these websites. And then post the percentages to shame them into doing actual journalism.
Well said Bill. Well said.
EXCELLENT!!!!
I'm so happy she is getting back to work. I missed her shenanigans. Her and whoppi are my favorites. Joan must be proud!!! Thanks Bill for putting her on!
Love Bill! Would love to see him live.
Outrageous. I demand an apology.
Bill doesn't always get it 100% right, but he's one of the few that actually calls out the shit from both sides - and more importantly - can put it in perspective. Keep it up. We need you to.
I'm no Maher fan. But I give credit where credit is due. Bravo!
Very REAL!!
People are infuriated by this.
Spot on.
Thank you Bill Maher for your voice of sanity.
As a journalist major who is learning to do REAL journalism, I appreciate this from Bill.
Well said!
Those titles are click bait 100%
I would also add the links that use a red circle and or red arrow.
"Wrap Her up! Wrap her up!"
Is there an option to 'love' this video?
Just make sure you're in private...
Great video. 2010s was the decade of information chaos. I hope people get smart about how they process news, and media become more responsible about what news they report, before a horrible event happens because of a misinterpreted tweet