Liberal speak host Invoice Maher appeared on CNN this weekend and instructed Jake Tapper that he doesn’t suppose historical past might be type to Joe Biden.
Maher’s criticism stems primarily from Joe Biden’s choice to run for a second time period earlier than in the end bowing out. Maher compares Biden to late Supreme Court docket Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who was hailed as a hero by the left till she died throughout Trump’s first time period, giving him the chance to call her alternative.
Whereas Maher is probably going proper about Joe Biden and historical past, his criticism is solely about what Biden has achieved to the Democrat celebration. Biden is not going to be handled kindly by historical past for an entire slew of issues that he did as president, not only for what he did to Democrats.
Transcript by way of Real Clear Politics:
TAPPER: So I’m writing an election ebook, and one of many issues I simply discovered was a monologue you gave in October 2023 by which you warned the Democratic Celebration of Ruth Bader Biden. You had been saying the American individuals suppose he’s too outdated. You’re too you’re frightened about this.
You had an incredible line about it doesn’t matter if he’s a nationwide treasure and has achieved nice issues. Should you acquired on an airplane and also you heard that Buzz Aldrin was the pilot, you’d get off. I’m sorry for botching.
You’re a really humorous joke. However they didn’t hearken to you. However you had been confirmed right.
MAHER: Yeah. And I felt I had standing to make that case as a result of I had for therefore a few years been the one individual I do know on tv who was constantly railing in opposition to ageism. I’ve been saying for years ageism is the final allowable prejudice that we will have on this nation.
You may at all times do the age jokes. You may at all times rail on individuals for being too outdated. And it was, as I mentioned, a case by case foundation.
Some individuals at 70 are act like they’re 100 years outdated and a few persons are like 40 yr olds. However this was a case, OK, the place Biden was too outdated. Having made that case that it’s a case by case foundation, I used to be now saying, sure, a few of these circumstances are that the individual simply is just too outdated for the job.
And he was going to be very like Ruth Bader Ginsburg, somebody who was seen in historical past as one who stayed out, stayed on the honest too lengthy and price his celebration dearly. And he did. And, you understand, I don’t suppose historical past goes to deal with Joe Biden kindly for doing that.
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Maher is taking a barely extra agnostic method to Trump in his second time period, however nonetheless stays extremely important of him. On the very least, Maher has develop into very important of the novel left lately as properly.
