Maher urges liberals to have “intellectual honesty” about the California wildfires
Liberal talk show host Bill Maher argued that liberals, who usually politicize tragedies, are silent when Democratic leaders are to blame.
Many Californians, including celebrities, lost their homes in the Pacific Palisades area. forest fires continue raging in Los Angeles County and elsewhere, burning more than 27,000 acres, destroying more than 10,000 structures and killing at least 25 people, according to local officials.
LA Mayor Karen Bass and California Governor Gavin Newsom received some criticism Before and during the devastating fires, Maher argued in a TMZ interview that more critics need to speak up and hold liberal leaders accountable.
Talk show host Bill Maher argued that local Democratic leaders in California should be held accountable by their fellow Democrats.
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“I stand with people who want to hold politicians accountable,” Maher said news agency.
The comedian emphasized that many liberals said “We shouldn’t talk about it now” and characterized them as “hypocrites”.
“It’s funny to hear that coming out of liberals’ mouths because conservatives hate it when they say what conservatives always say after a gun tragedy, after a mass shooting.” This is not the time to politicize it. ‘ And then it’s never like that,” Maher said. “It’s time to talk about it.”
He said there were some other factors that made some level of disaster inevitable, such as global warming, but said “mistakes” had been made.
“Was it always going to be bad? Of course,” Maher said. “Their arguments aren’t wrong. We built a city in a terrible place to build a city. Global warming is absolutely making hot things and the weather worse. The winds were ridiculous. Yes, I understand all that. They made a lot of mistakes too. .”
A helicopter drops water on the Kenneth Fire in the West Hills section of Los Angeles, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. (Ethan Swope/AP)
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Maher added that “if you hold Bush accountable for Katrina,” then “you have to show some intellectual honesty in criticizing your team when they don’t get it right. And they’ve been around long enough to get it right.”
The HBO host also pointed out that somehow such disasters “always seem like the worst they could be” — a sign that more should be expected from leaders.
“I think we should demand better,” Maher said.
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