Bill Maher Rips CNN for Lack of Conservative Pundits

Bill Maher thinks CNN isn't playing fair in the cable news war.
During a Sunday, February 23, appearance on "Pod Save America," the comedian slammed the leftist network for not having many conservative pundits on during panel discussions even after President Donald Trump won back the White House.
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The television personality condemned the outlet for only having Scott Jennings as their go-to right-wing journalist.
"After whatever they're going to say and usually I agree with those people, then lonely Scott gets to talk. I do like having an actual debate," Maher said.
"This idea that they have some people that you shouldn't platform. I've lost fans, certainly and even people who were friends because they were so mad at me that I had on Real Time, people like Ted Cruz and Bill Barr. He was the attorney general. I'm not going to talk to this man?" he added.

Host and hardcore Democrat Jon Lovett noted how their show is also trying to reach across the aisle more.
"I think in the early years of this company, we were much more reluctant in part because we were trying to be a platform for progressive voices," the former Barack Obama staffer admitted.
"But as we've grown, we've realized that we want to have more conservative voices on to challenge them because we want to be at the center of that kind of a debate," Lovett said.

Maher also issued a scathing warning to leftists about how the "woke" agenda could be alienating people across the country.
"The Democratic position in [California] has been that the school has the right to hide it from the parents," the Real Time with Bill Maher host said on the topic of gender transition treatments for kids. "That is not something that's going to go well with the average voter."
"And the fact that you think, or a lot of people on the left think, that even if you just have this debate, it makes you a bigot, you just have to roll over … that was their position," he pointed out.

"If you even question this, you're some sort of a bigot. And this is new science. And it has to do with children. And it's not going to look good in the future, that position," Maher said.
The funny man is often outspoken about leaving a seat at the table for personalities on the right while also keeping Trump in check. "He's going to say a lot of crazy s—. That's just who he is," Maher told The Hollywood Reporter in January.
"I'm just going to cordon those things off to the funny parts of the show where we just laugh at it, but I'm not going to take it seriously because it doesn't deserve to be taken seriously," Maher explained.

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When asked about backlash from Democrats, Maher isn't too worried about upsetting anyone.
"I was never exactly persona grata to begin with," he admitted. "I always say I'm in show business, but I'm not of it. I'm in a very different category, kind of my own category. Am I an A-lister? No, I'm not Nicole Kidman or Timothée Chalamet, but I'm not really a B-lister either. I'm in this world that has one foot is in politics and you have to be smart to watch my show and to be on it."