Fair enough. Like I said, offhand.

I can think of one - John Oliver has laid into people in New York quietly supporting functional segregation of schools. Samantha Bee is one of those people (not that she ever mentioned it on her show, nor did Oliver refer to her by name.)

I wouldn't agree there. Colbert has slimmed down his perspective for his CBS show, and Trevor Noah's views on American politics clearly come a fair bit from his writers, but John Oliver wears his avowedly liberal politics on his dorky British sleeve, and Samantha Bee has taken stands that make her controversial here…

Given Maher argued that the best way to deal with Milo was to argue with him, though, it's a colossal failure of that concept (and Maher as any kind of alleged liberal speaker.) Rather than even gently challenging Milo on his transphobia, for example, he agrees with it.

Oh, of that I have no doubt. His only response to this debacle is to tweet a joke about Sweden and the Bowling Green Massacre (earlier today, long after the joke had become stale.)

This had more to do with his invitation to CPAC, which had to do with the brand he was building assiduously regardless. Maher's fawning interview did jack shit - hell, if his team had done any research he could have easily trashed one of the many awful things Milo has said and supported, but he didn't give a damn.

My ideas are more underground than Milo's, and, unless you were paid an enormous advance by Simon & Schuster to write a book, so were yours.

You don't know the half of it. I've never even been offered a book deal or a talking position at CPAC! Way more limited than you'd think.

I wouldn't be surprised if it was an influence, as the premise of both it and Great Wall is 'what if there are monsters on the other side of this giant wall?'

Ahhh, right. I'd thought maybe it was a vague reference to Alex Proyas, the director of Gods of Egypt, being of Egyptian birth (though to ethnically Greek parents, not Jewish.)

I feel like this is a reference to something, but I have no idea what (as Bale is born and bred in Britain and not - to my knowledge - of Jewish heritage.)

Right, I should clarify that when I'm talking about an asshole being interviewed on television being violently stopped, I'm referring to Richard Spencer, the white supremacist who was punched on inauguration day while being interviewed by ABC in Washington (the Australian one.)

The asshole was being interviewed on television. The problem isn't that he got punched; it's that he had a platform he had to be punched out of to begin with.

I did, the Ellison interview. But sure: https://newrepublic.com/art…

Besides any criticism of Maajid Nawaz himself (like on the pages of the New Republic: https://newrepublic.com/art… ), he has been on Megyn Kelly's Fox show, he's not some amazingly open-minded guest choice for Maher.

Yep, that's the one. How they ganged up on Mike every time really sold the joke.

It had Claudia Black for an arc and I still didn't watch it.

Goldmine of comment history here.

Dictating one's politics on 'what will people in warped echo chambers think of it' is truly no way to live.

Neither of their censorships at Berkeley come close to the censorship I've endured at Berkeley: To this date, I've not even been invited to speak at Berkeley once.