<p>Liberal HBO host Bill Maher defended Florida Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ron-desantis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ron DeSantis</a> during an interview this week over a &#8220;despicable&#8221; hit piece that The New York Times wrote about how he managed the COVID-19 pandemic in the state.</p>
<p>DeSantis appeared on &#8220;Real Time&#8221; with Maher Friday evening where the two talked about DeSantis&#8217; record and his Republican presidential campaign.</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m fed up with woke, too,&#8221; Maher said. &#8220;That&#8217;s why I have trouble with friends in Hollywood. I&#8217;m an old school liberal, and that&#8217;s a whole different thing than woke. And I&#8217;m sympathetic to you because, you know, you very often, like, take on an issue where I feel like, yeah, there is crazy stuff going on in schools. There is crazy stuff.&#8221;</p>
<p>Maher mentioned, though, that the problem is that some people do not understand why it was important to take on Disney or fight wokeness in schools because they don&#8217;t actually see what is going on.</p>
<p>&#8220;This idea of ideology corrupting institutions, I see it in Los Angeles with the amount of crime that&#8217;s here and the homelessness,&#8221; DeSantis said. &#8220;There are people that commit crimes who are not prosecuted like they would be in Florida. Our state&#8217;s crime rate is at a 50-year low. You elect these people like Gascón and what they did in San Francisco. You can break into somebody&#8217;s house or mug somebody, and you don&#8217;t end up going to jail?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;That doesn&#8217;t work, but that&#8217;s driven by ideology,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;So it&#8217;s not just we&#8217;re having just a philosophical debate. I think woke ideology has corrupted institutions. I think it&#8217;s corrupted things like the CDC with how they handled COVID with the nonsense that they did. So it&#8217;s a broader issue than just a philosophical fight.&#8221;</p>
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<p>After DeSantis brought up how he fought against heavy-handed government restrictions during COVID, Maher responded, &#8220;You keep wanting to get back to that and I don&#8217;t blame you because you&#8217;re right.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re on the same page there. And I think it&#8217;s unfair what they did to you because you did handle it better,&#8221; Maher continued. &#8220;You did handle it better. You were right. You were like, let&#8217;s target the people, protect the people who are most vulnerable, and everybody else can go on with their lives a little better. You opened schools sooner. And a lot of the stuff that&#8217;s come in, the information we have after now we&#8217;ve had a few years to look at it, you were more right, and they won&#8217;t give you credit with it.&#8221;</p>
<p>Maher then specifically highlighted The New York Times&#8217; coverage. &#8220;I saw The New York Times with such a despicable hit piece on you &#8230; I forget what the lead headline was, but it was basically Ron DeSantis f***ed up the pandemic,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And then like, at the very end, it says Florida&#8217;s death rate, overall, is better than the national average. And if you&#8217;re going to do an article about Florida and the pandemic, shouldn&#8217;t that be the lead? Shouldn&#8217;t that be the headline — I mean, talk about burying the lead.&#8221;</p>
<p>DeSantis said that if he is elected president, he will &#8220;bring accountability&#8221; so that the government overreach that happened during the pandemic &#8220;never happens in our country again.&#8221;</p>
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