Comedians Bill Maher and Adam Carolla rebuked the political left for excluding individuals who hold heterodox views during a Monday episode of “Club Random.”
Maher and Carolla, who both live in the Los Angeles area, are not religious and support abortion and smoking marijuana. Yet they lamented on the podcast that the left had cast them out and treated them as conservatives.
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“It’s so hard to not be on one of the extremes, to not have a team. I mean, it just really sucks. And especially in this town where everyone’s on one team … They are very exclusionary,” Maher said. “They really just don’t want to breathe the same air if you’re not exactly with the groupthink, while they’re not that bright.”
Carolla agreed and argued that Americans should focus on shared beliefs rather than dissent.
“I know … it’s counterintuitive to me because I always feel like you should be looking for things you agree on, not looking for things you disagree on,” he said. “And it just makes life so much easier and so much better. And it’s almost like saying, ‘Look, we like to go out to dinner. Let’s not try to figure out what food you hate and I love. Let’s try to figure out the food we both love and let’s go enjoy ourselves.’”
“And it’s pretty easy to do because if you think about most people who you may disagree with, or maybe I disagree with, it’s not 10 out of 10 things. We agree on eight out of 10 things,” he continued. “And maybe we have a disagreement about two out of 10 things. Like people say to me all the time, ‘Oh, you’re Republican and right leaning.’ I go, ‘Listen, I don’t own a gun. I’m not religious at all. I’m for abortion and pot smoking and everything. How, how right can I be?’”
Maher said Carolla’s remarks captured what he found most frustrating regarding leftists.
“You’ve put your finger on the thing that makes me so incensed about the woke and the far left, which is this — that they want to characterize people,” he said. “You, me, Bari Weiss, who’s a lesbian and Jewish … we need no further credentials to let you know that we are certainly not conservatives. We’re not right-wingers. We’re not whatever you think. And yet, it’s never enough for them. It’s never enough that we’re just not willing to go along with your insanity. That doesn’t make us conservatives.”
“No, I agree. I agree. Bari’s great. And there’s many people that way,” Carolla responded. “And again, it’s interesting because they feel compelled to put you somewhere. And if you don’t conform … they have an issue with it.”
Left-wing journalists and public figures were furious in October regarding CBS News selecting Weiss, who founded The Free Press, as its new editor-in-chief.
Maher also condemned the left on a July episode of “Club Random” for its unwillingness to convene with individuals on the right.
“The stupidest thing the left does … is having this attitude toward the right that: ‘We won’t even break bread with you. We are so far above you that we won’t even sit down at the same table with you!’ That is their attitude — and that makes me sick too!” he said.
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