Bill Maher calls political correctness ‘a cancer on progressivism’

Comedian Bill Maher took aim at left-wing Democrats on Monday night, slamming them for political correctness that he called a “cancer on progressivism.”

While often taking Democrats’ side as a vocal critic of President Trump, Maher, who hosts HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher,” said in an appearance on CNN that Democrats “don’t help themselves a lot.”

{mosads}The longtime political commentator pointed to backers of Trump who regularly cite that they like his lack of political correctness.

“The vast majority of liberals in this country hate it,” Maher said of political correctness. “They think political correctness has gone way too far. No one likes to be living on egg shells.”

Maher said that he goes after Democrats because they “need some tough love, and I’m not going to stop.”

He pointed to the news surrounding the 2016 election and the focus on Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s email scandal, saying that he believes the coverages affected the election.

“They have some things to answer for,” Maher said. “I think this far-left political correctness is a cancer on progressivism.”

Speaking with @ChrisCuomo, “Real Time” host Bill Maher didn’t just criticize President Trump.

He also had tough words for Hillary Clinton saying she was a “terrible candidate” in 2016 and “committed obstruction of justice” by smashing up her phone and hard drives. pic.twitter.com/06RegN2sFg

— Cuomo Prime Time (@CuomoPrimeTime) June 11, 2019

“When you talk to Trump supporters, they’re not blind to his myriad flaws, but one thing they always say he’s not politically correct. I don’t think you can overestimate how much people have been choking on political correctness and hate it,” Maher continued.

Former NBC and Fox News host Megyn Kelly on Tuesday responded to Maher’s remarks, tweeting that despite criticizing Maher “many times,” he’s “dead right about the pc police & their fake self-righteousness.”

I have criticized Bill Maher many times (and vice versa) but the man is dead right about the pc police & their fake self-righteousness. https://t.co/hj5cvEfFmM

— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) June 11, 2019

Maher told CNN that he doesn’t “have a lot of faith” in the media ahead of the 2020 elections.

“We don’t live in the era of news division as loss-leaders like we used to,” Maher explained. “The news division didn’t use to have to make a profit. Then, that changed … and in that atmosphere, they’re going to be looking for eyeballs. That’s going to be the most important thing, it’s getting people to click, getting people to watch.”