Sorry, can’t find any better sources for this.
The animator then asked Maher what the “downside” of “getting a vaccine” was, which caused the comedian to go on an anti-vax tirade.
“The fact that you the fact that you don’t even have a clue what’s the cost of getting a vaccine that you don’t know the answer to that. You completely want to shut your eyes to the fact that there are repercussions to all medical interventions, including a vaccine, all vaccines,” he ranted. “They come, they say side effects, just like every medication does. You can see it in the literature. They can’t write it on their back on the vaccine. So you have to dig them. And of course, there is a vaccine court because so many people have been injured.”
There is 0 chance he reviewed this edit. Thats the only reason this is probably out. He’s doing volume and trusting his people—and this is also probably the “best” cut (which tells you how bad it really is in real-time)—because as bad as he is, there’s just no way he knowingly released a cut like that with an actual peer like Jeff Ross.
Now that it’s been seen, he will obviously defend it because it’s weak to pull it. But Bill isn’t so out of touch that he’d proactively release material that makes him look like Ross is embarrassed to be there.
Yeah that’s true and I doubt it costs him much for the production, he’s probably just wanting to have a podcast because he enjoys some podcasts and knows they’re cool right now. He probably wouldn’t even respond to criticism of it beyond, “well you know what if you don’t like it don’t watch it okaaay, and maybe when you grow up you can enjoy hearing how adults talk and have fun.”
Eh, it happens fairly frequently that people are in a weird bubble and are so convinced they’re right they’ll willingly put out an insane rant thinking that once everyone sees it they’ll change how they think.
Maher is a Hollywood guy which means he’s in a big bubble to begin with. And then he’s probably got an entourage that tells him he’s right about everything. They audience at his shows are a self selected group of people that agree with him.
Sure it’s possible his team released it because they don’t give a shit about him looking bad because he’s an asshole. But it’s equally likely he ok’ed it simply because he thinks he’s right and no one he’s surrounded by day to day tells him otherwise.