Bill Maher Hits NYT for Burying Kavanaugh Assassination Attempt

CLAY: So, I went up to Knoxville over the weekend, got to watch some of the College World Series scenarios. Notre Dame, congratulations. The Fighting Irish out there beat Tennessee, my Tennessee Volunteer team, but we had an amazing time hanging out. And, Buck, I mentioned this a little bit earlier in the show. We were up there with three kids. There were five of us total, another dad was with me, and he said…

We were talking in the car on the way up, and I said, “Hey, I’m just kind of curious. How much attention did you pay to the Brett Kavanaugh assassination attempt?” And he said, “That happened?” He said, “I didn’t even hear about it,” and he’s a smart guy, plugged in, but busy like a lot of parents are out there and not necessarily listening to the news every day. And on Sunday, all of the talk shows — Face the Nation, Meet the Press, all of them — with the exception of the Fox show on Fox News didn’t even mention attempted assassination of Brett Kavanaugh.

And we talked a lot about this on the show last week, and in particular during that, we said the New York Times had not covered this at all. They put it on the 20th page of their newspaper. And, Buck, you’ve done the show. I’ve still never been invited on the show. I think it might be because I’m banned by CNN and they have the same parent company or maybe they just hate me, but Bill Maher teed off on the New York Times for not covering the attempted assassination of Brett Kavanaugh. Listen.

BUCK: It’s totally true. It’s also, though, I do sometimes feel like we should hesitate a bit to clap too loudly for people on the left who are saying what is so obvious when for years and years, they created the circumstances by shouting that every Republican as racist, Donald Trump is worse than Hitler.

Now all of a sudden, it’s like they created this left-wing monster and now they can’t control it and we’re supposed to look at them and say, “Oh, wow! So stunning and brave,” when they brought us to this point. I mean, Bill Maher has said some great stuff under the Biden administration. He was delusional under the Trump administration. But, again, he’s one of those people in media for whom the Trump thing was actually personal.

CLAY: Yeah.

BUCK: He personally disliked Donald Trump. They had personal beef.

CLAY: So, I’m curious what will happen the day after the midterms. You live in New York City, Buck. There are a lot of people listening to us behind enemy lines in Chicago and in L.A. Do you think there will be a realization of how toxic the Democrat brand is for much of the country right now, or will there be…? Like, what sort of realization, if we get what I think — and you agree — is likely to be a red wave in blue clusters of Americas where it’s overwhelmingly-Democrat controlled cities, they wake up and see all these results and think what the day after?

BUCK: Oh, they’re gonna tell themselves… We’re gonna have, let’s say, a two- or three-seat majority in the Senate. We’re gonna have a 30- to 40-seat pickup in the House. Again, I want the target to be 50 but realistically a 30- to 40-seat pickup in the House, and the Democrats in San Francisco, in New York, in Chicago, in D.C. — not that they have House races there, but everyone knows what I mean.

CLAY: Yeah.

BUCK: — they’re gonna tell themselves this is just the result of bad luck. It’s a cyclical recession.

CLAY: Vladimir Putin’s fault.

BUCK: It’s Putin’s price hike. They will double down in the delusion because in those places, they are so rarely exposed to anything that is meaningfully conservative. People say: What’s it like for me to walk around in New York City? You have a different deal in Nashville. You get high fives and free barbecue. I get, people would think, problems, but actually I don’t.

CLAY: (laughing)

BUCK: When I was on CNN back in the day I used to get people coming up to me and sometimes being a little snippy. But no one… They don’t need… They don’t listen to talk radio. The left, I’m saying. The Democrats don’t listen to talk radio in New York; so they have no idea who I am. They have no idea who you are, which is great, ’cause I can walk around anonymously.

Until a cop, a construction worker, a carpenter is like, “Buck, I love the show,” and then we hug and we hang out, which is a great thing that happens in New York sometimes. But my point about the blue areas is that they really believe this cartoon that Donald Trump is a white nationalist who is destroying the country and a threat to democracy and so anything is better than him. Anything. Doesn’t matter.

CLAY: It’s such an interesting perspective because — and I know we’re looking a little bit ahead, but if you’re right and if Democrats see this shellacking, this onslaught, this red wave that’s gonna sweep over them and think — ’cause a lot of them do — the reason why this happened is “because we didn’t do enough,” right? That’s what you hear people saying now about Joe Biden: The reason why Joe Biden’s not popular is because we haven’t done enough.