Screenwriter David Mamet Calls Bill Maher ‘Full of Sh*t’ over J6 Riot Discussion

MAHER: “If a prize fighter loses, it doesn’t inspire people to riot.”
MAMET: “How did he inspire people to riot?”
MAHER: “By not conceding the election.”
MAMET: “Oh, come on. Oh, come on.”
MAHER: “What — “
MAMET: “Come on. So wait a second, he didn’t say the words ‘I concede,’ and so that meant people rioted?”
MAHER: “Yes. What do you think January 6 was about?”
MAMET: “What do you think January 6 was?”
MAHER: “It was about people who did not hear their leader say, as every other leader in this country has said after an election, ‘Okay, I lost. We welcome the new guy. We had disagreements, but now we’re all Americans.’ When Obama took over, George Bush stood by next to him and he said, ‘We want you to succeed, because when you succeed...’ Trump didn’t do any of that.”
MAMET: “Okay. So what?”
MAHER: “So what? It inspires half the country to not accept the basic democratic principle that we have elections, and when you lose, you go away and then you become the loyal opposition. Tthey’re not — they don’t see themselves as the loyal — “
MAMET: “Look, you, like me, have built a career out of nothing except talent and a little bit a luck and a lot of hard work. But you’re full of sh*t. What — I don’t understand, when you say that he did not say the words ‘I concede’ caused half the country, which you just said, to riot.”