Ron DeSantis Was Right About Disney, Says … Bill Maher
“DeSantis wasn’t wrong. But we’re so tribal now, the left will overlook child-f—ing if the guy from the wrong party calls it out.”
Bill Maher had another one of his rare moments of clarity this weekend. While discussing recent revelations about child grooming and abuse in the entertainment industry, Maher admitted that Ron DeSantis had a valid point in going after Disney.
Will wonders never cease?
FOX News reported:
Maher unloads on the left: ‘Will overlook child f—ing,’ says ‘DeSantis wasn’t wrong’ in Disney fight
“Real Time” host Bill Maher closed his show Friday night by linking the left’s indoctrination of gender ideology of children to “entrapment.” He also called out Disney’s battle with Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, saying “DeSantis wasn’t wrong.”
The HBO host condemned, “The left will overlook child f—ing if the guy from the wrong party calls it out.”
“As one of the few people in the public eye who’s gone through life and never had kids, someone has to tell me why am I always having to defend them?” Maher exclaimed at the top of his monologue. “I don’t even like kids, but I also think it’s every adult’s job to protect them.”
Maher addressed the widely talked about docuseries “Quiet on Set” on the culture of sexual misconduct that occurred at Nickelodeon, saying while it was the “talk of the town” in Hollywood, it also “exposed hypocrisy,” pointing to the left’s attacks towards DeSantis for cracking down on the “creepy stuff” at Disney involving children.
“The reason we find pedophiles in the Boy Scouts and the rectory and kids TV is that’s where the kids are!” Maher shouted. “DeSantis wasn’t wrong. But we’re so tribal now, the left will overlook child-f—ing if the guy from the wrong party calls it out.”
You can watch the segment below:
The ‘Quiet on Set’ documentary series that Bill Maher talks about in the video is quite disturbing. I’ve watched a few episodes, and it’s shocking what went on at Nickelodeon back in the day.
This USA Today article is from March, when the series began:
Why ‘Quiet on Set’ documentary on Nickelodeon scandal exposes the high price of kids TV
There are some things worth sacrificing for art and entertainment. The well-being of children is definitely not one of them.
But increasingly, we are discovering that in the high-stress, high-profit and highly unregulated world of TV and filmmaking, children aren’t well.
In the new Investigation Discovery documentary series “Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids’ TV” (streaming on Discovery+ and Max), former child actors allege a variety of abuses and toxic behavior on the sets of classic Nickelodeon children’s TV shows, from “All That” and “The Amanda Show” to “Drake & Josh” and “Victorious.” From claims of racism and bullying workplaces to truly horrifying accounts of alleged sexual assault, the documentary suggests there was darkness behind all of Nick’s bright green slime…
“Quiet on Set” focuses on TV shows made for kids featuring kids, in the heyday of Nickelodeon in the 1990s and early 2000s. Many are from producer Dan Schneider, who would eventually be ousted by the network in 2018 after allegations of inappropriate behavior surfaced.
If you decide to watch it, proceed with caution.
Featured image via YouTube.
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DeSantis is a moral opportunist, not the government’s job.
Running a system for educating children is “not the government’s job”. Given that he can’t singlehandedly eliminate the government schools, DeSantis is simply restricting how much damage they can do.
Protecting children is parent’s job, but many of us prefer to outsource.
Sometimes, a really intelligent post is followed by a really intelligent comment.
This is not one of those times. Not even close.
Removing a special status Disney should have a never had in the first place is not “legislating morality.” And sometimes, when one side is trying to legislate immorality you have to push back the other way.
Your post just confirms bill point.
You skirt over the issue of harming kids being immoral, you are offended because the person calling it out as wrong is iyho “the wrong person”. And ignore the so so many “correct persons” who you might otherwise agree with but didn’t care about the harming of kids.
It’s like the MSM standard headline, if A Bad Thing the Left is ignoring gets called out by the Right, the headline isn’t that A Bad Thing happens, it’s that The Worse Thing is TBT is called out by ‘the wrong person”.
Ex : “Democrat Senator found in bed with a dead 9-year old child, Republican Senator attacks” (ie points out it happened).
Through the ages man had believed (eyelids fluttering under the mignonettes of modesty) that he was compounded only of good and a minimal amount of evil… On the contrary, he is compounded only of evil and a minimal amount of good, which the legislators have difficulty managing to preserve. – Lautreamont
Where the role of the legislators is the joke.
I liked the Victorian Age – you could do anything you chose as long as you didn’t force other people to watch you do it. I am certainly as cynical as you are about the ability to govern morality but I would like to be able to take my six year old to the public library without out having to explain about the Drag Queen in clown makeup waving dildos around at story time.
And he’s going to line up and vote for every single Democrat on the ballot anyway.
I am so sick of conservatives constantly quoting Maher like he is some kind of ally.
He wants them to STOP MAKING IT SO OBVIOUS what they are doing.
He supports
EVERY
SINGLE
DEMOCRAT
that’s doing this, and his followers will as well.
Maher is just their controlled opposition that makes some noise whining about the far left so they can run their ‘moderate’ Democrat that lies about supporting it… until they support it.
Absolutely no conservative should EVER care what Maher has to say.
Listen to his podcast for a few minutes if you can stand it… he goes off-script and reveals what a blithering moron he truly is.
It isn’t the message, but rather the messenger showing us the message has been read and it proves the truth that the messenger is lying.
He’s not an ally. But he is a delicious pain in our opposition’s ass, and for that reason, it’s worth helping his “heresies” go viral.
The important thing to remember is that millions of people watch and listen to Maher. About 10 people in the whole entire world read what you post here on LI. So who is more important?
Oh, I am, certainly. But not for what I post here. That’s just lagniappe, for the 10 people in the FBI who read my stuff here.
Maher is a self serving scumbag
Maher is never going to get a job at NPR if he keeps this up.
Maher exposes the lie, and will suffer.
Heh.
If “DeSantis is a moral opportunist”, then does that make Biden an immoral opportunist?
Maher is right on occasion. Not as often as a stopped clock, but it does happen far more often than many on the left.
Oh, it’s just the entitled D’s behaving on type. Apparently news to BM that rank has it’s privilege among that team.
Now do “waitress sandwiches”, passing around mobster molls, or intern humidors. Plenty of material there, Bill.
I’m not sure exactly how to frame this, but IMHO he’s a fool who has a decent audience of fellow fools who hang on his every word. If his occasional flights into reality convince some of them to re-evaluate one or two of their misconceptions, who am I to complain? It’s still better than being wrong 100% of the time like most of the left, if only by a little.