Maher skewers wealthy celebs who preached 'we're all in it together' during COVID as Americans struggled
Talk show host Bill Maher blasted celebrities as being comically out of touch during the COVID-19 pandemic Monday, even as they said they were struggling alongside everyday Americans.On his "Club Random" podcast, Maher talked with his guest, media mogul Byron Allen, about how much they both prefer living in houses rather than even the nicest apartment buildings, where they would have to share walls with other people."I don't want to speak for all New Yorkers, but they definitely started to agree with us when COVID hit," Allen said, noting that many New Yorkers fled the city during the pandemic for places like Aspen or the Hamptons.Maher said it was a perfect example of how wealthy liberal rhetoric during the pandemic did not match actual behavior.JEFF FOXWORTHY SAYS HOLLYWOOD HAS NOT UNDERSTOOD REGULAR AMERICANS IN A ‘LONG, LONG TIME’"You know, that's one of my big bugaboos about COVID, and the people who attack me about COVID, is that the bulls--- of, every time I turned on the TV, it was some version of, ‘We're all in it together,’" he recalled. "No we're not, you f---ing a--holes, you f---ing posers."Maher added that during that time period, "half of us are getting food delivered by the other half.
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Talk show host Bill Maher blasted celebrities as being comically out of touch during the COVID-19 pandemic Monday, even as they said they were struggling alongside everyday Americans.On his "Club Random" podcast, Maher talked with his guest, media mogul Byron Allen, about how much they both prefer living in houses rather than even the nicest apartment buildings, where they would have to share walls with other people."I don't want to speak for all New Yorkers, but they definitely started to agree with us when COVID hit," Allen said, noting that many New Yorkers fled the city during the pandemic for places like Aspen or the Hamptons.Maher said it was a perfect example of how wealthy liberal rhetoric during the pandemic did not match actual behavior.JEFF FOXWORTHY SAYS HOLLYWOOD HAS NOT UNDERSTOOD REGULAR AMERICANS IN A ‘LONG, LONG TIME’"You know, that's one of my big bugaboos about COVID, and the people who attack me about COVID, is that the bulls--- of, every time I turned on the TV, it was some version of, ‘We're all in it together,’" he recalled. "No we're not, you f---ing a--holes, you f---ing posers."Maher added that during that time period, "half of us are getting food delivered by the other half. And you're the half that's sitting home in your pajamas talking about how much we're all in it together."No, you're going out to the Hamptons. I know you're putting out Instagram political messages about it, and that's awesome," he joked sarcastically.Maher, despite being a left-leaning celebrity himself, has spoken out numerous times about how his fellow liberal celebrities simply cannot connect to the struggles of everyday people and come across as tone-deaf when they try to do so.BILLY BOB THORNTON PUSHES BACK ON CELEBRITY ACTIVISM: ‘I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT POLITICS’He went on to argue that such celebrities are actually insulated from the issues of regular people.
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- Talk show host Bill Maher blasted celebrities as being comically out of touch during the COVID-19 pandemic Monday, even as they said they were struggling alongside everyday Americans.On his "Club Random" podcast, Maher talked with his guest, media mogul Byron Allen, about how much they both prefer living in houses rather than even the nicest apartment buildings, where they would have to share walls with other people."I don't want to speak for all New Yorkers, but they definitely started to agree with us when COVID hit," Allen said, noting that many New Yorkers fled the city during the pandemic for places like Aspen or the Hamptons.Maher said it was a perfect example of how wealthy liberal rhetoric during the pandemic did not match actual behavior.JEFF FOXWORTHY SAYS HOLLYWOOD HAS NOT UNDERSTOOD REGULAR AMERICANS IN A ‘LONG, LONG TIME’"You know, that's one of my big bugaboos about COVID, and the people who attack me about COVID, is that the bulls--- of, every time I turned on the TV, it was some version of, ‘We're all in it together,’" he recalled. "No we're not, you f---ing a--holes, you f---ing posers."Maher added that during that time period, "half of us are getting food delivered by the other half.
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