New Rule: Bill Maher the Messaging Czar | Real Time (HBO)

and finally new rule Democrats who one year from now will be licking their wounds and asking themselves how they could have lost the midterms so badly must instead ask themselves that question now now you know now like while they're still time to do something about it a couple of weeks ago Amy Klobuchar was here and when I suggested the Democrats need a messaging Czar she offered me the job well you need a messaging Czar in your party I think it should be you Amy I'm flattered but after careful consideration I must decline the hours it would take me away from home would make it very difficult on my family [Applause] but I will tonight once again break out my coach hat and try to point the Democrats in the right direction that's all I can do point you in the right direction I'm like deep throat because the way this party is running for office is making me gay now I know liberals think this country is full of dumb white people but in our democracy dumb white people make up a substantial portion of the vote the median voter is a white person in their 50s who didn't go to college their favorite TV show is NCIS and their pronouns are what I don't know what the you're talking about and get away from thanks in 2008 Republicans only won four Virginia counties by more than 70 percent this month in the governor's election there they did it in 45 counties and this is what a lot of Democrats were told was the reason for that Glenn younken's win proves white ignorance is a powerful weapon racism still works in Virginia it's not the messaging folks this country simply still loves white supremacy well I haven't worked up an official Democratic campaign slogan for 2024 yet but I tell you what I have ruled out is vote Democrat because white people suck that's it's it's like trying to get laid by saying you're ugly you want to dance you're alienating a whole lot of people particularly whites without a college degree which is most of them in a country that's still 70 percent white I'd say do the math but math is a form of white supremacy thank you yes I know I know every fiber of your being tells you the people you really want to reach are Guatemalan teenagers and bloggers in Gaza but they can't vote to a lot of folks in America you come across as the cares about everybody but me party and it doesn't have to be that way you can find ways to stand up for these folks without being David Duke this month when the Democrats finally passed their big trillion dollar bill to rebuild our roads and bridges six Democrats voted no because it didn't go far enough to address climate change which I'm sure is true what does but this was free money from the federal government that would actually improve their constituents lives I can see a voter saying you know Squad I agree with you on climate change but as long as it is happening we also need money for getting the water pumped out of the subway can we do that before we build the workers Paradise one of the first things Biden did in office was getting through a coveted relief package that sent fourteen hundred dollars to well everybody without a single Republican vote and today Trump is leading him in the polls you can give the people all the goodies Joe manchin will allow and it doesn't seem to buy their love why why is the party that supports so many issues that benefit the middle class still considered out of touch by 62 percent of Americans in plain English nobody likes a snob Hillary Clinton didn't have anyone on Rural research or Outreach when she ran in 2016 until the race tightened just before the election then they hired one and where was his office Brooklyn a true story politics is local not locally sourced it's not Artisan it's art and Stan your microaggression culture doesn't play in the Rust Belt if a staffer hands you a speech that says menstruating people instead of women don't say that say women don't put anyone fresh out of college in charge of the campaign they've been given participation trophies their whole life they don't know how to win foreign [Applause] knew how to win and he blamed the Democratic losses this November 2nd on stupid wokeness to which AOC fired back that wokeness is a term almost exclusively used by older people these days so that should tell you all you need to know what this is a term folks like you brought out very recently and had been proudly displaying it every March since just last year the guardian declared woke the word of our era I guess they didn't get the memo from the Mean Girls Club we don't use that emoji anymore woke please we say fetch now what a great strategy never missing an opportunity to remind voters how lame and clueless and hopelessly uncool they are especially since those are the ones who actually vote but okay fine what word would you like us to use for the plainly insane excesses of the left that are not liberalism but something completely different because you can't have that word liberal from us and think it should cover things like canceling Lincoln and teaching third graders they're oppressors that's all your new thing a more pertinent question to ask about the word woke might be why in such a short time has it gone from a rallying cry to a pejorative if the word only made you think of rational deserved causes like teaching a less white-washed version of American History AOC would still want to own it but it's a joke because it makes you think of people who wake up offended and take orders from Twitter and their oversensitivity has grown tiresome that said [Applause] see on this show there's so much to admire there I was one of her first supporters for the green New Deal idea but that will probably never happen because Democrats don't go anywhere these days where they're not pre-adored and that's my last bit of advice to them go where the Amen Corner isn't do Fox News be brave come here go everywhere winning is about expanding the electorate

Channel: Real Time with Bill Maher

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Keywords: Fareed Zakaria, author, Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World, China's Iron Fist, CNN, CNN International, Gov. Chris Christie, New Jersey Governor, Republican Rescue, Saving the Party from Truth Deniers, Conspiracy Theorists, and the Dangerous Policies of Joe Biden, Eric Adams, retired police officer, Brooklyn Borough President, Mayor, New York City

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Length: 8min 8sec (488 seconds)

Published: Sat Nov 20 2021