Daily Wire host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/author/matt-walsh">Matt Walsh</a> recently responded to a question posed by HBO host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/bill-maher">Bill Maher</a> about the origin of the &#8220;woke mind virus.&#8221;
During Monday&#8217;s edition of &#8220;The Matt Walsh Show,&#8221; the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/matt-walsh">host</a> played a viral clip from a recent &#8220;Real Time with Bill Maher&#8221; episode when Maher asked Elon Musk about radical transgender activists shutting down free speech and other tactics.
Maher asked Musk how and why &#8220;this woke mind virus&#8221; started.
Musk replied, &#8220;It&#8217;s been a long time brewing &#8230; it&#8217;s been going on for a while. And the amount of indoctrination that&#8217;s happening in schools and universities is far beyond, I think, what parents realize.&#8221;
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Walsh said he agreed with what Maher and Musk said about the &#8220;woke stuff&#8221; and he&#8217;s glad that Maher is bringing attention to the topic. However, Walsh said Maher should look in the mirror to see where the &#8220;woke mind virus&#8221; began.
&#8220;And no it didn&#8217;t come from bats and it wasn&#8217;t grown in a lab,&#8221; Walsh said. &#8220;And it didn&#8217;t fall out of the sky. It didn&#8217;t climb out of the ground or something. &#8230; Bill you know what&#8217;s the origin of the &#8216;woke mind virus,&#8217; you.&#8221;
&#8220;You&#8217;re the origin,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Not just you, but liberalism. The Left, the ideology you espouse, that&#8217;s where it comes from. It didn&#8217;t come out of nowhere. &#8230; It was born from the liberalism that you still ascribe to.&#8221;
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&#8220;It is a logical extension of that,&#8221; Walsh continued. &#8220;This is a point that needs to be made and that conservatives need to make rather than simply applauding. &#8230; And the more that people like Bill Maher can pretend that wokeness is completely divorced from the leftism that he ascribes to &#8230; the worse it is.&#8221;
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The late night shows hosted by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jimmy-kimmel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jimmy Kimmel</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/stephen-colbert" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stephen Colbert</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jimmy-fallon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jimmy Fallon</a>, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/seth-meyers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Seth Meyers</a> will cease production on Tuesday as a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/labor-unions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">union</a> of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hollywood" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hollywood</a> screenwriters initiates a strike.
Members of the Writers Guild of America (WGA) <a href="https://www.wgacontract2023.org/updates/strike-authorization-vote-results" target="_blank" rel="noopener">voted</a> overwhelmingly earlier this year to authorize a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/screenwriter-strike-could-grind-hollywood-to-a-halt-this-week-heres-which-shows-could-be-hit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">strike</a> if the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), a trade association that represents more than 350 studios, did not approve a new <a href="https://www.wgacontract2023.org/the-campaign/pattern-of-demands" target="_blank" rel="noopener">contract</a> with increased minimum compensation and larger contributions to pension and health plans. Union members are <a href="https://www.wgacontract2023.org/strike/strike-rules" target="_blank" rel="noopener">prohibited</a> from working on their shows as of Tuesday.
“Though our negotiating committee began this process intent on making a fair deal, the studios’ responses have been wholly insufficient given the existential crisis writers are facing,” WGA <a href="https://twitter.com/WGAWest/status/1653242480106815491" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on social media, noting that six weeks of deliberations with firms such as Netflix, Amazon, Sony, and Disney under the AMPTP umbrella ultimately failed to produce a new contract.
Colbert was scheduled to host Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Chita Rivera on Tuesday, while celebrities such as Chris Hayes and Michael J. Fox were scheduled to appear later in the week, according to a <a href="https://deadline.com/2023/05/writers-strike-late-night-shows-to-shut-down-immediately-1235352054/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from Deadline. Fallon was supposed to welcome Ken Jeong, Jennifer Lopez, and JJ Watt this week, while Kimmel was slated to host Dr. Phil and Ricky Gervais. The shows are instead expected to air reruns on Tuesday.
Production for shows such as “Real Time With Bill Maher,” “Saturday Night Live,” and “Last Week Tonight With John Oliver” is also expected to cease this week, according to a WGA <a href="https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2023-04-20/writers-guild-warns-analysts-investors-may-2-strike-means-no-late-night-shows-delay-fall-season" target="_blank" rel="noopener">memo</a> recently obtained by The Los Angeles Times. The document noted that production delays could inhibit the ability of Disney, Paramount Global, and Comcast NBCUniversal to produce episodes for the fall network television season, while streaming platforms carrying broadcast shows would likewise be impacted.
Meyers said on his Monday show that he supports the strike and wants his writers to receive higher pay.
“No one is entitled to a job in show business. But for those people who have a job, they are entitled to fair compensation,” he said, as recorded by Deadline. “They are entitled to make a living. I think it’s a very reasonable demand that’s being set out by the Guild. And I support those demands.”
Kimmel and Colbert were impacted by a similar strike between 2007 and 2008, when WGA members picketed for three months as a result of failed contract negotiations, causing production delays and shortened seasons for multiple studios.
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The current strike occurs as the shift toward streaming contributes to diminished profits in television and cinema. WGA officials also cited the advent of artificial intelligence as a possible mechanism to increase work capacity for screenwriters, a phenomenon which could enable studios to decrease their headcounts and thereby provoked calls from the union to regulate material produced with the technology.
The union previously <a href="https://www.wgacontract2023.org/updates/bulletins/writers-are-not-keeping-up" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that firms have “used the transition to streaming to cut writer pay and separate writing from production, worsening working conditions for series writers at all levels.” The share of writers working at the minimum <a href="https://www.wga.org/news-events/news/connect/10-3-22/animation-writers-have-been-paying-the-price-for-studio-greed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">standards</a> established by the most recent WGA contract has risen substantially in recent years, producing a 23% median compensation decline when adjusted for inflation, even as series budgets increase.

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Twitter CEO <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/elon-musk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elon Musk</a> is warning that artificial intelligence needs government regulatory oversight like other industries in order to make sure that the public is protected from potential dangers relating to the technology.
Musk made the remarks during an interview that aired Friday on HBO&#8217;s &#8220;Real Time&#8221; with Bill Maher.
&#8220;A friend of mine has a sort of modification of Occam&#8217;s razor, instead of the simplest thing being the most likely, the most ironic outcome is most likely,&#8221; Musk said. &#8220;So, with respect to AI, I just think we should be, we should have some sort of regulatory oversight.&#8221;
&#8220;So, you know, for anything that is a danger to the public, if it&#8217;s sort of aircraft, cars, food and drug and whatnot, we&#8217;ve got some regulatory oversight, like a referee, essentially, and making sure that companies don&#8217;t cut corners,&#8221; he said. &#8220;So, I think that since if, if one agrees that AI is a potential risk to the public, then there should be some regulatory body that oversees what companies are doing so that they don&#8217;t cut corners and potentially do something very dangerous.&#8221;
Maher noted that some notable figures, like American computer scientist and futurist Ray Kurzweil do not think that AI is &#8220;a problem at all.&#8221;
&#8220;Yeah, it depends if some people want to live forever, or for a much longer period of time, and they see AI as the only way to, or digital super intelligence as the only thing that can figure out how to get them to live forever,&#8221; Musk said. &#8220;I think Kurzweil is in that category. So he would prefer to have AI, artificial general intelligence than not, because he couldn&#8217;t figure out longevity.&#8221;
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/bill-maher">Bill Maher</a>, host of HBO&#8217;s &#8220;Real Time,&#8221; called out the media during the most recent episode of his show for not addressing black-on-black crime in Democrat-run cities like Chicago.
Maher made the remarks during a panel discussion with Brown University economist Glenn Loury and international relations scholar Daniel Bessner.
&#8220;Like Chicago, most of the shootings are young black men killing other young black men,&#8221; Maher said. &#8220;Is that not correct?&#8221;
After Loury noted that that was Maher said was true, Maher wanted to know why its never brought up in the media.
&#8220;Why doesn&#8217;t anybody talk about that?&#8221; Maher asked. &#8220;Why aren&#8217;t there a hundred giant black celebrities, who would have the respect of those people, saying, ‘What are you doing to yourselves? Why are you killing each other?’&#8221;
Maher later said that he thinks that bad schools in predominately black neighborhoods are one reason that crime in those areas is higher.
&#8220;One in 3 children in America cannot read at a basic level of comprehension,&#8221; he said.
&#8220;Eight-five percent of Black students lack proficiency in reading skill. We already spent a lot of money on schools. So, are you going to keep telling me that more money will fix this because I feel like this is much more connected to the problems of people who can&#8217;t read.&#8221;
&#8220;Yes, they&#8217;re going to have problems with gainful employment, and it seems like, you know, a lot of times the solutions that come from the left seem symbolic,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;They don&#8217;t seem like we&#8217;re addressing what really needs to be done, which is get kids learning, get them reading, get them to have a job.&#8221;
&#8220;It doesn&#8217;t seem like the money is getting to this problem if 85% of black students lack proficiency in reading skills,&#8221; he added.
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&#8220;Nobody ever get canceled for being too woke,&#8221; comedian Bill Maher observed in a short video clip that circulated on Twitter on Monday afternoon.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bill-maher-calls-for-media-blackout-on-school-shooters-its-just-going-to-inspire-the-next-one" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Maher</a>, who joined Fox Nation host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-slap-in-the-face-to-actual-women-piers-morgan-unloads-on-trans-marketing-trend" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Piers Morgan</a> for Monday&#8217;s episode of his interview-based show &#8220;Piers Morgan: Uncensored,&#8221; argued that people had been so throughly groomed by activists and social media that even when someone said something truly insane, the majority would simply nod and smile and behave as though they had never thought any differently.
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&#8220;Nobody ever gets canceled for being too woke. So you can say the craziest thing, like &#8216;men can have babies&#8217; and then nobody will — even though people are thinking, &#8216;well, that&#8217;s kind of nuts,&#8217; nobody will say it. They&#8217;ll just fall in line,&#8221; Maher said.
&#8220;&#8216;Uh, yeah, exactly, that&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve always thought,'&#8221; Maher continued in sarcastic tones, prompting laughs from Morgan. &#8220;&#8216;Sure. I saw a dude who was glowing yesterday.&#8217; And that&#8217;s the problem.&#8221;
&#8220;Totally insane,&#8221; the host responded.
&#8220;Cowardice,&#8221; Maher countered.
&#8220;Yes, it is. It&#8217;s moral cowardice,&#8221; Morgan agreed, but Maher suggested it was also &#8220;intellectual cowardice.&#8221;
Morgan went on to point out that some people were not speaking up because they were afraid — and for good reason, because they had seen other people get canceled for pushing back against certain agendas.
&#8220;They&#8217;ve seen people around them literally getting canceled, getting shamed and abused —&#8221; Morgan continued, and Maher agreed. &#8220;Hounded out of jobs — they think, &#8216;I don&#8217;t want it to happen to me.'&#8221;
Maher&#8217;s appearance on &#8220;Uncensored&#8221; comes just days after Morgan joined the comedian for his Friday evening show on HBO — alongside <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/piers-morgan-torches-democrat-katie-porter-over-remarks-about-riley-gaines" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rep. Katie Porter</a> (D-CA) — where the three addressed a number of topics.
Among those topics was a discussion on trans-identifying TikTok star Dylan Mulvaney, who recently inked advertising deals with major brands like Anheuser Busch staple Bud Light and sportswear brand Nike — the latter of which really bothered Morgan.
&#8220;I said that for someone who identified as a gay man until last year to be sporting a women’s sports bra, despite having no breasts, as &#8216;they&#8217; pranced around like a clueless non-athlete, mimicking how a misogynist would scornfully depict a woman doing sport, struck me as a slap in the face to actual women,&#8221; Morgan reflected in a Monday <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/04/17/spineless-dems-now-look-anti-women/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">op-ed</a> for The New York Post.
He went on to note that, much to his surprise, Maher&#8217;s left-leaning audience appeared to agree with him. &#8220;It felt like a moment of reckoning, when an insane ideology hits the buffers of basic common sense, and the public knows it,&#8221; he wrote.

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Fox Nation host Piers Morgan responded on Monday to his Friday appearance – alongside Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) — on comedian Bill Maher&#8217;s show, saying that he believed &#8220;the worm has turned&#8221; on companies bowing to the transgender community in their advertising.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/piers-morgan-torches-democrat-katie-porter-over-remarks-about-riley-gaines" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Morgan</a> delivered an <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/04/17/spineless-dems-now-look-anti-women/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">op-ed</a> in The New York Post on the subject, noting in part that he had been surprised to see Maher&#8217;s liberal audience responding positively to his comments suggesting that some trans-identifying activists — specifically TikTok personality <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/clumsy-and-stupid-matt-walsh-rips-anheuser-busch-statement-on-dylan-mulvaney-controversy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dylan Mulvaney</a> — were making a mockery of biological women.
Explaining that he found Mulvaney&#8217;s partnership with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/stop-giving-them-your-money-nike-partners-with-dylan-mulvaney-ignites-fury-online" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sportswear brand Nike</a> far more problematic than the now-infamous Bud Light cans, Morgan argued that the TikTok star&#8217;s intentionally-exaggerated &#8220;prancing&#8221; made a mockery of women.
&#8220;I said that for someone who identified as a gay man until last year to be sporting a women’s sports bra, despite having no breasts, as &#8216;they&#8217; pranced around like a clueless non-athlete, mimicking how a misogynist would scornfully depict a woman doing sport, struck me as a slap in the face to actual women,&#8221; Morgan wrote. &#8220;And to my surprise, given how liberal Maher’s audience tends to be, my comments were met with loud applause.&#8221;
Morgan said that Porter had attempted to push back – but that the audience had again applauded him when he observed, &#8220;Nobody’s questioning trans rights to fairness and equality, what I would question is where trans rights to fairness and equality begin to erode or even destroy, as we’re seeing in women’s sport, the rights of women to fairness and equality.&#8221;
Porter had tried again, stating that she &#8220;disagreed&#8221; with former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines — who has recently become a target of the trans community for objecting to trans-identifying biological males competing against women in sports.
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&#8220;What do you disagree with, out of interest? What is it she’s said that’s actually wrong?&#8221; Morgan asked.
Porter said that Gaines was only speaking up to &#8220;get likes&#8221; on social media – but Morgan objected, saying that she had been standing up for fairness and equality for women in sports.
&#8220;Riley is speaking up for herself. And that is her prerogative and I respect her free speech,&#8221; Porter replied.
&#8220;I think she’s speaking up for pretty much every female athlete in the world,&#8221; Morgan said, prompting applause.
In his op-ed, Morgan reflected on the exchange, saying, &#8220;It felt like a moment of reckoning, when an insane ideology hits the buffers of basic common sense, and the public knows it.&#8221;

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Swimming champion Riley Gaines responded to Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) over the weekend after Porter called out Gaines during a panel discussion and effectively accused her of just trying to get attention.
The segment went viral after British political commentator Piers Morgan slammed Porter during the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/piers-morgan-torches-democrat-katie-porter-over-remarks-about-riley-gaines">discussion</a> on HBO’s “Real Time” with host Bill Maher.
&#8220;Hey @RepKatiePorter I&#8217;m not speaking up for myself&#8230;I&#8217;m done playing sports,&#8221; Gaines said. &#8220;I&#8217;m not fighting for me. I&#8217;m actually supposed to be in dental school this year. But I&#8217;ve changed my life plans because I see what&#8217;s at stake if someone doesn&#8217;t fight for the present and next generation.&#8221;
&#8220;Why is it always women fighting against sex-based protections?&#8221; Gaines continued. &#8220;That will forever be beyond me.&#8221;
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The segment came after Gaines was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/swim-champ-riley-gaines-attacked-by-radical-trans-mob-forced-to-barricade">attacked</a> last week by radical transgender activists who swarmed her when she visited San Francisco State University to advocate for the rights of female athletes.
Porter said during the discussion that she “strongly” disagreed with Gaines, about which Morgan pressed her for more information.
“I think that it should be up to sporting bodies to make the decisions about who is actually—” Porter started to respond before being cut off.
“But what has she said that is actually wrong?” Morgan fired back.
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“I think that what she has done is tried to turn this, we talked about people becoming, using things to kind of get likes and get clicks,” Porter said.
“That’s not what she’s doing,” Morgan responded. “All I’ve seen her do is stand up for women’s rights, for fairness and equality. She actually competed against Lia Thomas, and it was obviously unfair. Lia Thomas won one of the races in the NCAA championships by 50 seconds against a bunch of biological females who simply couldn’t keep up. That cannot be right. It cannot be fair.”
When Porter said that she thought Gaines was speaking up for herself, Morgan responded, “I think she’s speaking for pretty much every female athlete in the world.”

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British political commentator <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/piers-morgan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Piers Morgan</a> blasted Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) during a panel discussion late this week over the swimming champion Riley Gaines, who was recently attacked by radical transgender activists.
The exchange happened on an episode of HBO&#8217;s &#8220;Real Time&#8221; with host Bill Maher as the panelists discussed the incident.
Porter said that she &#8220;strongly&#8221; disagreed with Gaines, about which Morgan pressed her for more information.
&#8220;I, I think that it should be up to sporting bodies to make the decisions about who is actually—” Porter started to respond before being cut off.
&#8220;But what has she said that is actually wrong?&#8221; Morgan fired back.
&#8220;I think that what she has done is tried to turn this, we talked about people becoming, using things to kind of get likes and get clicks,&#8221; Porter claimed.
&#8220;That&#8217;s not what she&#8217;s doing,&#8221; Morgan responded. &#8220;All I&#8217;ve seen her do is stand up for women&#8217;s rights, for fairness and equality. She actually competed against Lia Thomas, and it was obviously unfair. Lia Thomas, won one of the races in the NCAA championships by 50 seconds against a bunch of biological females who simply couldn&#8217;t keep up. That cannot be right. It cannot be fair.&#8221;
When Porter said that she thought Gaines was just speaking up for herself, Morgan responded, &#8220;I think she&#8217;s speaking for pretty much every female athlete in the world.&#8221;
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Katie Porter randomly took a shot at Riley Gaines during Maher&#39;s show, claiming the point of Riley&#39;s activism is &quot;Getting likes&quot;
&quot;Riley is speaking up for herself.&quot;
&quot;I think she&#39;s speaking up for pretty much every female athlete in the world&quot; <a href="https://t.co/8F5J67vVxb">pic.twitter.com/8F5J67vVxb</a>
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<blockquote>REP. KATIE PORTER (D-CA): Nobody, including Riley Gaines, who I disagree with strongly, should be&#8211;
PIERS MORGAN, POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: What do you disagree with her? Out of interest.
PORTER: I, I think that it should be up to sporting bodies to make the decisions about who is actually&#8211;
MORGAN: But what has she said that is actually wrong?
PORTER: I think that what she has done is tried to turn this, we talked about people becoming, using things to kind of get likes and get clicks.
MORGAN: That&#8217;s not what she&#8217;s doing. I&#8217;ve got no truck to run against personally, but all I&#8217;ve seen her do is stand up for women&#8217;s rights, for fairness and equality. She actually competed against Lia Thomas, and it was obviously unfair. Lia Thomas, won one of the races in the NCAA championships by 50 seconds against a bunch of biological females who simply couldn&#8217;t keep up. That cannot be right. It cannot be fair.
PORTER: That is something that I trust, I think our sporting bodies should be dealing with. And by the way, Riley is speaking up for herself. And that is her prerogative and I respect her free speech.
MORGAN: I think she&#8217;s speaking for pretty much every female athlete in the world.</blockquote>

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Piers Morgan Torches Democrat Katie Porter Over Remarks About Riley Gaines

Social Issues

Comedian <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/its-not-going-to-work-bill-maher-warns-alvin-bragg-case-could-be-rocket-fuel-for-trump-2024/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bill Maher</a> called on Friday for a total &#8220;media blackout&#8221; when it came to school shooters, arguing that the constant attention often lavished on the perpetrators of such crimes could make the idea of committing similar crimes seem attractive to certain people.
<a href="https://dailywire.com/news/stay-the-f-home-bill-maher-unloads-on-the-problematic-costume-police/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Maher</a> made the statement during Friday&#8217;s episode of &#8220;Real Time with Bill Maher,&#8221; adding that he did not want to see anything about the alleged shooters — especially if denying them the publicity they so desired might also discourage the next person from choosing to open fire in a school.
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How about a media blackout on school shooters so we don&#39;t inspire the next one? <a href="https://t.co/ovMrwRxDB1">pic.twitter.com/ovMrwRxDB1</a>
&mdash; Real Time with Bill Maher (@RealTimers) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealTimers/status/1642300810787979264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 1, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;The other thing I&#8217;d like to say about this as we&#8217;re — the media — anxiously waiting on all this information about the shooter &#8230; how about we have a blackout on the shooters and what they did?&#8221; Maher began, to applause from the audience.
&#8220;You know, this is &#8230; Yesterday was the opening of the baseball season,&#8221; Maher continued, adding, &#8220;Now, in baseball, when somebody runs on the field, the camera doesn&#8217;t show it. They don&#8217;t give that person any publicity. Why can&#8217;t we at least do that in this country?&#8221;
&#8220;I don&#8217;t want to hear anything about it. We know it happened. I don&#8217;t want to know about — I don&#8217;t want to know what orientation this person is, how old they are, what their manifesto said. I don&#8217;t give a s*** about any of it, because it&#8217;s just going to inspire the next one because they all feed on each other,&#8221; he added. &#8220;That&#8217;s the least the media could do.&#8221;
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Maher&#8217;s suggestion actually falls in line with a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/why-daily-wire-will-no-longer-publish-names-or-ben-shapiro" target="_blank" rel="noopener">policy</a> that The Daily Wire adopted — at the direction of editor emeritus Ben Shapiro — just days after the 2018 school shooting at Marjorie Stonemason Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
&#8220;It has become increasingly clear in recent years that the value of public knowledge regarding specific names and photographs of mass shooters is significantly outweighed by the possibility of encouraging more mass shootings,&#8221; Shapiro wrote at the time. &#8220;Studies suggest that media coverage of mass shootings can have a significant impact on the psyches of potential mass shooters — that such potential mass shooters have a cognitive craving for attention, which they know they will receive for committing atrocities.&#8221;

Bill Maher Calls For ‘Media Blackout’ On School Shooters: ‘It’s Just Going To Inspire The Next One’

Bill Maher Calls For 'Media Blackout' On School Shooters: 'It's Just Going To Inspire The Next One'

Mainstream Media

School Shooting

Virginia Lt. Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/winsome-sears" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Winsome Sears</a> (R-VA) said it was ridiculous for people to be concerned about “misgendering” the woman who murdered six people at a Christian school in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/nashville" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nashville</a> this week. 
Sears made the comments during Friday’s episode of “Real Time with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/bill-maher" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bill Maher</a>” where she appeared on a panel alongside journalist and author James Kirchick. 
“This person murdered six people, I don’t really care who you say you are. You murdered six people, and three of them were children. You don’t get a say. Well, she&#8217;s dead now, but you don’t get a say in telling us who you are and what you’re about. You killed six people,” Sears said. 
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&quot;They are misgendering and dead naming the murderer. They are referring to the murderer by their given name and not their chosen name. &#8230; If someone says they&#39;re a man they&#39;re a man.&quot;
&quot;This person murdered 6 people. I don&#39;t really care who you say you are.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/AYqQ1s0wc6">pic.twitter.com/AYqQ1s0wc6</a>
&mdash; Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) <a href="https://twitter.com/EricAbbenante/status/1642001819395145729?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 1, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Sears was referring to the 28-year-old woman who shot six people at The Covenant School in Nashville, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tennessee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tennessee</a>, on Monday. Officials have still not announced a motive for the shooter, who identified as transgender, but they have described the shooting as targeted.
In the days following the shooting, media outlets like The New York Times and USA Today <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/legacy-media-scramble-to-recover-claim-police-misidentified-gender-of-nashville-shooter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">scrambled</a> after claiming that police had “misidentified” the gender of the shooter. 
“There was confusion later on Monday about the gender identity of the assailant in the Nashville shooting,” the Times <a href="https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1640508409542848519" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “Officials had used ‘she’ and ‘her’ to refer to the suspect, who, according to a social media post and a LinkedIn profile, appeared to identify as a man in recent months.”
Sears made her comments after Kirchick said that some in the media had not followed their own rules, but continued to identify the shooter as female despite the self-identification as a male. 

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“If you noticed, they are misgendering and deadnaming the murderer, right. They are referring to the murderer by their given name, not their chosen name, and referring to her as a woman, as opposed to what her identity apparently was as a man, which is not the way the media usually does these things,” he said. “They are usually very particular about the subjective sense of gender identity and respecting that. If someone says they’re a man then they’re a man, but in this case they&#8217;re not doing that.”
Sears, who won an upset electoral victory in Virginia alongside Governor Glenn Youngkin, later said that parents deserved more say over the education of their children.
“I’m a parent, I’m a parent all day. I get to decide what happens in my child’s life, not you, not the government, not anybody. I don’t co-parent. I had this child, I’m responsible for this child. If anything happens to little Johnny, you’re calling me. If  I don’t want my child given lap dances at school by a drag queen, I don’t want it done.”

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Winsome Sears Slams Concerns Over ‘Misgendering’ Nashville School Shooter

Winsome Sears Slams Concerns Over 'Misgendering' Nashville School Shooter

Nashville

Winsome Sears

Comedian <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/bill-maher/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bill Maher</a> warned on Friday that Manhattan District Attorney <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/guess-who-the-walls-are-closing-in-on-in-alvin-braggs-trump-case/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alvin Bragg&#8217;s</a> case against former President Donald Trump — involving &#8220;hush money&#8221; allegedly paid to former porn star Stormy Daniels – could backfire in a big way.
Maher came out swinging at Trump <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/tv/whos-getting-locked-up-now-bitch-bill-maher-savagely-mocks-trump-amid-threats-over-arrest/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">during his monologue</a>, noting that the former president and current presidential candidate was the target of several investigations, and argued that former Secretary of State and failed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was probably the only one laughing.
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Trump has to be the first guy ever to pay a porn star to shut her mouth. <a href="https://t.co/5DUqFhSi8J">pic.twitter.com/5DUqFhSi8J</a>
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&#8220;All week everybody’s been on pins and needles because we thought that word was going to come down, that Trump was going to be indicted and arrested. And it’s true. Trump may be indicted in a criminal investigation,&#8221; Maher began. &#8220;And everybody in this country said the same thing. Which one? There’s 4.&#8221;
&#8220;Of course, I think the person who is really laughing about all this is Hillary,&#8221; Maher. continued, referencing repeated calls from Trump and his supporters for his 2016 opponent to be taken to jail. &#8220;She’s — she’s home going, &#8216;Who’s getting locked up now, b****?'&#8221;
The comedian went on to clarify that the only case appearing to approach a possible indictment and arrest was the case being brought by Bragg — and he wasn&#8217;t at all sure that was a wise move.
&#8220;Okay, so I really don’t want to give Donald Trump the satisfaction of talking about him. I thought when he was gone, he’d be gone a little bit. But you know, there is an ex-president out there now who’s going to be arrested, possibly,&#8221; Maher added, <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/tv/really-youre-down-to-that-bill-maher-calls-bragg-prosecution-colossal-mistake-and-rocket-fuel-for-trump-2024/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">proceeding to explain</a> why he thought arresting Trump was the wrong way to go.
&#8220;I just would like to go on record of saying I think this is a colossal mistake if they bring these charges,&#8221; Maher said, arguing that he absolutely believed Trump had done bad things — even this particular bad thing — but saying that wasn&#8217;t what would matter when it came to the public response.
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&#8220;It’s not going to work. It’s going to be rocket fuel for his 2024 campaign. And it’s just going to look to MAGA nation like, oh, you know, you tried with Mueller, you tried with Ukraine, you tried with January 6. Now we go to the porn star. Really? You’re down to that?&#8221; he said.
CNN&#8217;s <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/van-jones-trashed-for-warning-manhattan-da-to-back-off-trump-indictment/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Van Jones</a> took heat from the left for making a similar statement earlier in the week, arguing that Bragg would be wise to sit back and allow Georgia to make the first move against Trump over alleged election interference.

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‘It’s Not Going To Work’: Bill Maher Warns Alvin Bragg Case Could Be ‘Rocket Fuel’ For Trump 2024

Bill Maher Warns Alvin Bragg Case Could Be 'Rocket Fuel' For Trump 2024

2024 Election

Donald Trump

Remember when social media platforms forbade anyone from even suggesting that the COVID virus may have leaked from a lab in China that was studying coronaviruses?
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
But that was way back then. Now, much of the COVID narrative is falling apart — new studies have suggested that masks don&#8217;t work, lockdowns were ineffectual, the vaccine is now mostly ineffective, and the U.S. Energy Department says that it&#8217;s likely the Wuhan lab was the source of the virus.
One person who&#8217;s been following the whole saga is Bill Maher, host of HBO&#8217;s &#8220;Real Time.&#8221;
&#8220;I feel like the people who were the dissenters are looking pretty good. I was one of them,&#8221; Maher said during a panel discussion on his show Friday night. &#8220;I remember getting a lot of s*** from a lot of places.&#8221;
A guest on the show, comedian and Rumble host Russell Brand, jumped in, saying dissent &#8220;is a great duty around all topics&#8221; as he criticized those who are &#8220;too desperate to shut down a conversation.&#8221; That, he said, actually results in the &#8220;ironic&#8221; rejection of science and inquiry.
&#8220;The problem I feel that we had is that only experimentation was taking place that was beneficial to certain interests,&#8221; Brand said. &#8220;Only arguments were being advanced that were beneficial to certain interests. Only regulations were being imposed that were beneficial to certain interests.&#8221;
&#8220;The Wuhan lab leak theory being just one example — [top COVID official Dr. Anthony] Fauci himself was seriously considering that this was a likely origin for the virus,&#8221; the actor said.
&#8220;How could it not be a possibility?&#8221; Maher said incredulously. &#8220;It&#8217;s a lab in Wuhan where the virus started that studied the virus and was doing gain of function research on the virus. How could it not be?!&#8221;
Another guest on the show, liberal MSNBC analyst John Heilemann toed the party line, blaming former President Donald Trump for &#8220;politicizing&#8221; the issue and putting the lab-leak theory in doubt.
&#8220;If you go back to that time, why do people seize on the notion that they&#8217;ll reject the lab-leak theory? Because like everything else in COVID, Donald Trump politicized it from day one,&#8221; he said.
&#8220;His thing in that first two weeks was &#8216;kung flu.&#8217; And it was not just that it started in a lab, but then that the Chinese had released it on the world, that it was a bioweapon. This wasn&#8217;t a leak. It was just not like there was an accident in the lab. The notion that was put forward by the administration in some case was there was political interest to make China the villain,&#8221; Heilemann said.
But Maher pushed back. &#8220;So everybody else has to take his bait like that and double down on stupid?&#8221; he said.
Brand piled on, saying it wasn&#8217;t just Trump who politicized the virus.
&#8220;It seems that it&#8217;s not solely the responsibility of Donald Trump that this issue has become politicized. When we take the issue of natural immunity, the efficacy of masks, it&#8217;s difficult not to posit that perhaps increasingly a centralized authority becomes subject to inquiry that has never before face to because of the advancement of technology, because of our media ability to communicate, they are doubling down on authoritarianism,&#8221; Brand said.
Maher&#8217;s criticism follows that of Jon Stewart, a dyed-in-the-wool liberal who once hosted &#8220;The Daily Show.&#8221; He was roundly ripped by fellow liberals when he vehemently (and in a quite funny way) declared in June 2021 that the COVID virus emerged from a lab in Wuhan, China.
He felt vindicated when the U.S. Energy Department said this week the virus likely emerged from the lab.
&#8220;The larger problem with all of this is the inability to discuss things that are within the realm of possibility without falling into absolutes and litmus-testing each other for our political allegiances as it arose from that,&#8221; he said.
&#8220;My bigger problem with that was, I thought it was a pretty good bit that expressed kind of how I felt, and the two things that came out of it were, I’m racist against Asian people, and how dare I align myself with the alt-right,&#8221; Stewart said.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.

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