freedom fries all over again. Bill Maher?

Bill Maher: The Left’s Exiled Prophet

Bill Maher’s ouster from Politically Incorrect in 2002, after his post-9/11 remarks questioning the word “cowardly,” marked a turning point in the left’s evolution. At that moment, Maher was defending free speech from within the liberal tradition — yet when the political climate turned punitive, he became expendable.

It’s worth remembering that Maher helped drag the left out of its moral stupor during the Bush years: defending civil liberties, mocking hypocrisy, and daring to criticize religion when few others would. But as the left drifted toward identity politics and social-media moralism, he found himself exiled once again — this time by the very movement he had helped awaken.

The one consistent thing about Bill Maher is that he’s always stood against American hypocrisy and imperialism. He did it first during the Bush years, when even the so-called left was busy eating “freedom fries” and cheering for war. And he’s doing it again now, when that same left has lost its grip on reality — confusing symbolic oppression with the real thing, and forgetting that the world exists beyond America’s borders.

Meanwhile, in Canada, our own media wastes airtime on the same kind of moral theatre — freedom fries all over again.