I’m glad Maddow was finally called out on her hackery…and of course she tries to deny it immediately, even though she literally spent the entirety of the segment up to that point making it a partisan issue (just like she does every single second of her non-purposful comedy show on a major cable news network that gets fewer viewers than some youtube channels.)
And of course her fellow hack Maher jumps in to defend her, when it was she who opened the door and claimed there are times/ issues in which she would pick a Republican over a Democrat, and Gillespie called her bluff.
What’s so deliciously ironic about this is, it wasn’t a year ago Gillespie was on the very same show talking about his book with the very same host…and Maher argued that there was no such thing as an “independent” voter…he literally said that people want to be called that, but they always vote one way. Gillespie called himself an independent or libertarian and Maher jumps in and said “…who happens to always vote Republican”.
In a quick search I can’t find a working link to the full episode, but here’s a clip where you get a sense of where Maher’s going:
I think it’s possible (in fact I’m pretty sure of it based on Maher’s history of flip flopping on guests…Ron Paul is a great example) that Maher had not the first clue of Gillespie’s politics when he originally had him on the show, as he tries to finger him as a Republican who just doesn’t like the label early in the episode, and then later on in the conversation when Gillespie goes off on the drug war or something like that Maher is genuinely surprised and is like “whoa you really aren’t a Republican”.
I’ll be the first to admit Gillespie can be usful in a setting like this when he’s surrounded by leftists, because he knows a thing or two about the reality of government, and it’s obvious he hates nannies. I’ve linked plenty of his videos.