Maher to Dems: ‘It’s Not that I’ve Gotten Old, It’s that Your Ideas Are Stupid’

ZAKARIA: “Some people say the wrong thing. Some people go too far. But the whole tradition of this kind of expansion of rights, it’s messy, it’s chaotic. You know, yeah, we’re — you know, there’s probably a bunch of excesses, as there probably was in the ‘60s. There was the Black Panthers and the Weathermen and things like that. But they think of you as somebody who was, you know, you were okay with all that, but you’ve turned.”
MAHER: “I haven’t turned. Yes, people have said to me, ‘You make fun of the left more than you used to,’ and guilty, I have, because the left has changed. Now, the right has changed also, and even worse. I mean, the right doesn’t believe in democracy anymore. I mean, they’ve thrown their lot in with this sociopath named Donald Trump, who only thinks elections count when we win. Okay, well, that’s worse. But it’s not like the left hasn’t changed also. So I’m going to call it out wherever I see it. I mean, there are things that have to do with, you know, gender and race and free speech, and just ideas about, you know, you can be healthy at any weight and gender is always a social construct and maybe we should give communism another try and maybe we should get rid of capitalism and the Border Patrol, and let’s tear down statues of Lincoln and get rid of the police. Just, you know — no. It’s not that I’ve gotten old, it’s that your ideas are stupid, okay?”
ZAKARIA: “Common sense is still common sense.”
MAHER: “Yes, common sense is common sense, and I’m going to call it out wherever it is on the spectrum.”