{"id":110870,"date":"2025-11-18T09:04:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T14:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/bill-maher-confronts-liberal-comedian-over-claim-the-left-stayed-scientific-110870"},"modified":"2025-11-18T09:04:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T14:04:23","slug":"bill-maher-confronts-liberal-comedian-over-claim-the-left-stayed-scientific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/bill-maher-confronts-liberal-comedian-over-claim-the-left-stayed-scientific-110870","title":{"rendered":"Bill Maher confronts liberal comedian over claim the left stayed &#8216;scientific&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Bill Maher grilled fellow liberal comedian Patton Oswalt on a podcast episode published Monday, arguing he lives in a bubble and is unaware of where progressive policies have gone too far.<\/p>\n<p>During the &#8220;Club Random&#8221; podcast, Patton Oswalt balked at the idea that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., is considered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/aoc-asks-npr-clarify-problem-when-host-asks-about-solving-migrant-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">too progressive for many Americans,<\/a> saying that shows how &#8220;broken&#8221; the country is right now.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This country is not as mature as it thinks it is,&#8221; he told Maher. &#8220;We elected [Barack] Obama, and clearly the country freaked out. We&#8217;re still living in that freak-out. We are not as progressed and evolved and intelligent as we think we are, because we keep freaking out about this stuff.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah, well, the left freaks out too,&#8221; Maher replied. &#8220;The left freaked out about a lot of bulls&#8212; too.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What did they freak out about?&#8221; Oswalt asked Maher, who is a progressive but often tackles what he views as out-of-control wokeness.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/bill-maher-says-bring-back-old-america-left-must-tone-down-radical-progressivism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>BILL MAHER SAYS TO BRING BACK &#8216;OLD AMERICA,&#8217; THE LEFT MUST TONE DOWN THEIR RADICAL PROGRESSIVISM<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gender, race, parenthood, schools, homelessness, crime, the border, education,&#8221; Maher said, listing several issues where he argued Democrats have admitted their party overreached. &#8220;We stopped being a scientific people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But the left certainly stayed scientific,&#8221; Oswalt objected.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No, they didn&#8217;t,&#8221; Maher said, citing &#8220;gender bulls&#8212; that they went way too far with. That\u2019s not scientific.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Later in the conversation, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/patton-oswalt-says-trump-appeals-very-damaged-people-who-fantasize-about-being-powerful\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oswalt suggested<\/a> that part of why the political right is so combative right now is because it is an &#8220;extinction burst,&#8221; essentially a chaotic last flare of activity before something dies out.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is definitely a lot of that for sure,&#8221; Maher said. &#8220;There is definitely a lot of, \u2018Oh, this country is becoming something we don&#8217;t recognize anymore,\u2019 and some of that is valid. I mean, what&#8217;s going on in England right now is that, is a lot of that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/bill-maher-says-democrats-have-pretty-big-split-party-after-election-wins\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>BILL MAHER SAYS DEMOCRATS HAVE \u2018PRETTY BIG SPLIT\u2019 IN PARTY AFTER ELECTION WINS<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What\u2019s going on in England?&#8221; Oswalt asked.<\/p>\n<p>Maher replied by referring to an earlier accusation that Oswalt has been living in a liberal &#8220;Bluesky bubble,&#8221; where he is unaware of the concerns non-liberals talk about, such as consequences for Britain from mass migration. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/white-house-taunts-liberals-provocative-meme-filled-debut-bluesky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bluesky is a social media site<\/a> modeled after X that&#8217;s popular with progressives.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE OF MEDIA AND CULTURE<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/download\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The great irony, Maher said, is that in the interest of DEI, England has essentially allowed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/uk-lawmakers-vote-against-inquiry-rape-gang-scandal-musk-keeps-up-pressure\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">exploitation of women<\/a> on its own shores.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But it concerns me that this didn\u2019t get on your radar,&#8221; Maher said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/bill-maher-confronts-liberal-comedian-over-claim-left-stayed-scientific\">Source &#8211; https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/bill-maher-confronts-liberal-comedian-over-claim-left-stayed-scientific <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Maher grilled fellow liberal comedian Patton Oswalt on a podcast episode published Monday, arguing he lives in a bubble and is unaware of where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"twitter_2902945987_2902945987":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[16563],"tags":[],"stock_ticker":[],"class_list":["post-110870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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