{"id":7044,"date":"2026-07-15T22:48:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T17:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=7044"},"modified":"2026-07-15T22:48:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T17:48:33","slug":"bill-maher-calls-out-npr-interviewer-for-eating-the-sht","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=7044","title":{"rendered":"Bill Maher Calls Out NPR Interviewer for &#8216;Eating the Sh*t&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-body\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bill Maher may be on TV, but he&amp;apos;s \u201cexactly the same\u201d in real life | Newsmakers\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TUI2hLa7TQM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bill Maher<\/strong> practically did a spit take when NPR asked about President <strong>Donald Trump\u2019s<\/strong> \u201cdecorating.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Appearing with NPR\u2019s<strong> Steve Inskeep<\/strong> on a Wednesday episode of the Newsmakers podcast, the host of HBO\u2019s <em>Real Time<\/em> was asked about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/trumps-massive-washington-arch-drawing-massive-criticism-including-from-expert-who-pushed-for-it\/\">the president\u2019s planned 250-foot-tall arch<\/a>, a much-criticized proposed new monument in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p>Maher labeled the arch \u201cmeaningless:\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>STEVE INSKEEP: Have you thought differently about him at all as he has spent so much more time on decorating and on monuments to himself?<\/p>\n<p>BILL MAHER: Yeah, these are \u2014<\/p>\n<p>INSKEEP: I\u2019m sorry, I didn\u2019t mean to make you choke on the water. Go on.<\/p>\n<p>MAHER: These are the things I don\u2019t care about. This is his genius getting you to care about. And look, he<\/p>\n<p>INSKEEP: I shouldn\u2019t care about that arch or whatever.<\/p>\n<p>MAHER F*ck no.<\/p>\n<p>INSKEEP: Go on.<\/p>\n<p>MAHER: Absolutely not. Not the arch, not the pool, not the ballroom. This is all meaningless stuff. <strong>Steve Bannon<\/strong> famously said, \u201cThe way we win is we flood the zone with sh*t and you\u2019re eating the sh*t.\u201d You don\u2019t have to.<\/p>\n<p>Care about what\u2019s important. I can I could name the politicization of the Justice Department, DOGE, ICE, uh corruption, you know, lots of things.<\/p>\n<p>And even stuff where it was not a bad idea, but they screwed up the execution like the Iran war, like you know, I mean, DOGE, not a ICE, all these things that they could have done better and they just can\u2019t help themselves.<\/p>\n<p>This is a country where people get drunk with power when they get in. Happens to the Democrats to a degree, too. And they always go too far and then get the other side gets elected and then we just live in this world where everybody\u2019s just always undoing what the other one is, has just done.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Maher also voiced shock during the interview that NPR even invited him onto the program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour audience is going to love this, by the way,\u201d Maher told Inskeep, adding, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/im-surprised-you-even-had-me-on-bill-maher-rips-npr-as-far-extreme-of-the-left-to-interviewers-face\/\">I\u2019m surprised you even had me on<\/a>!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watch above via YouTube.<\/p>\n<p><em><span draggable=\"true\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JasonJournoDC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-19349\">Jason Cohen<\/a><\/span> contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>New: The Mediaite One-Sheet &#8220;Newsletter of Newsletters&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>Your daily summary and analysis of what the many, many media newsletters are saying and reporting. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/subscribe\">Subscribe now!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\nn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\ndocument,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Maher practically did a spit take when NPR asked about President Donald Trump\u2019s \u201cdecorating.\u201d Appearing with NPR\u2019s Steve Inskeep on a Wednesday episode of the Newsmakers podcast, the host of HBO\u2019s Real Time was asked about the president\u2019s planned 250-foot-tall arch, a much-criticized proposed new monument in Washington, D.C. 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