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HBO's Bill Maher attacked his former ABC bosses on Friday's Real Time for suspending his replacement, Jimmy Kimmel. According to Maher, Kimmel was wrong in what he said, but he has a right to say it, and ABC's suspension means the network stands for "Always Be Caving." While Maher's position may seem like a consistent and principled stand in favor of free speech, he got a couple key details wrong.
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A few moments later, Maher addressed the actual substance of Kimmel's remarks, "Jimmy, look, I don't think what he said was exactly right. I don't, we don't agree on that. He shouldn't lose his job for it. He said the MAGA crowd was trying to characterize the assassin as anything but one of them because the 22-year-old kid, his family was MAGA. As if a 22-year-old with a trans girlfriend never rebelled against their family?"
He continued, "I mean, but was he on the left? I don't know that either, and I hate to do this. I'm tipping the end of the show, which I work so hard on to keep a secret from the rest of the show, but it's too relevant. What I'm talking about at the end, I'm going to have to say now, which is that it is a fool's errand to try to say these nuts who do these things are any team. Jimmy is wrong, I think, to put him in one team, but, you know, look at what this guy is doing."