Bill Maher Has Sexual-Harassment Meltdown Over Bernie Sanders Story on ‘Real Time’
Bill Maher, the host of HBO’s Real Time, harbors controversial views concerning sexual harassment. He’s repeatedly defended Al Franken, Bill Clinton, and a slew of other alleged sexual predators, seemingly valuing their liberal political clout over the lives of their less powerful accusers.
And on Friday night, returning after a near two-month hiatus, Maher returned to his late-night show and vehemently defended Bernie Sanders and his presidential campaign from allegations of systemic sexual harassment, as revealed in an eye-opening New York Times investigation, and appeared to minimize sexual-harassment allegations detailed in the piece.
“Let me ask a question about the Democrats,” said Maher. “Bernie Sanders got into some trouble the last couple of weeks because apparently there was sexual harassment that was reported on his campaign. They asked him about this, and he apologized. They asked if he was aware of it, and he said, ‘I was a little busy running around the country trying to make the case.’ Which I had no problem with. That’s right. Just like Hillary wasn’t responsible for Benghazi, she was the Secretary of State, it’s not [Sanders’] responsibility to know everything that goes on, and it didn’t seem like it was the worst kind of sexual harassment.”
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