Petulant denial about election controversy had a ranting Bill Maher confronted with the Washington Post’s editorial board after arguing “no one gives a f*ck” about a battleground Senate race.
The ongoing saga of election integrity once again found the Democratic Party unprepared to accept an unfavorable outcome as incumbent Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey has yet to concede the race to Republican nominee Dave McCormick. When the host of HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher” was confronted with that fact, he too remained unwilling to stoop down from an undeserved moral high ground.
While fellow guest Chris Cuomo of NewsNation looked on, commentator Mary Katharine Ham refuted the comedian’s claim of “asymmetry” over accepting election results by bringing up the current shenanigans in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
In one clip of the segment shared by Newsbusters staff writer Alex Christy, Ham said, “I do not think it’s as asymmetrical as you say, and I also-” only to have the host fire back, “Well, on the presidential level it is. Okay? Bob Casey, no one gives a f*ck or even knows who he is.”
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A few moments later, Maher rants “Well, on the presidential level it is. Okay, Bob Casey, no one gives a fuck or even knows who he is. It’s a ridiculous argument. It doesn’t matter to anything.” pic.twitter.com/5pXYLbv2Lv
— Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) November 16, 2024
Moments earlier, Maher had asserted, “What I’m asking is, you know that if [President-elect Donald] Trump had lost the election, right now we would be talking about the votes that are still coming in, in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, and he’d be in the courts and we would just be all in a tither.”
“One side accepts election losses and one side doesn’t. This asymmetry cannot continue,” he went on. “And the people who are defending it cannot just look past it like ‘well, we won the election, that’s it.'”
Ham cut in to point out, “Currently, Bob Casey, Democratic senator in Pennsylvania, is doing exactly what you’re saying where he’s looking for all these votes and trying to — and the Bucks County commissioners are saying we need fake ones, we need to get all the ones that are unregistered-”
Breaking in with his own denial, Maher argued, “No, they’re just counting them.”
The back and forth over the fact had the guest saying, “And if you dismiss that and you don’t recognize the mote in your own eye, then that is a problem.”
“So, you’re saying Bob Casey in this — that’s equivalent to Trump in 2020?” the host tried only to repeatedly deny Ham’s response, “No, I don’t say they’re equivalent. I say that you have to recognize these things happen, for instance, in 2016; in 2000.”
Reacting to a clip of their exchange on X, she shared an opinion piece from the Washington Post affirming her point with the headline, “Democrats thumb their nose at the rule of law in Pennsylvania.”
https://t.co/ZhdXRBGTg9 pic.twitter.com/Vaam5Wukpr
— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) November 17, 2024
As had been reported, on Nov. 1 the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that misdated or undated ballots could not be counted and Bucks County Commissioners Diane Ellis-Marseglia and Robert Harvie voted to do so anyway where McCormick led by a scant 25,000 votes, a decision other counties in the commonwealth had opted for as well.
Despite the reality on the ground, Maher insisted as he deflected, “It’s a ridiculous argument. It doesn’t matter to anything. We’re talking about the United States of America and who gets to run it and who gets to appoint everybody. Let’s just go on to that because I know I’m never going to make any progress here.”
Before the discussion moved on, Ham added, “Well, I do want to say I have some standing because a family member of mine, my husband, was at the Capitol escorting people back in to make the vote. Like, he did the dangerous thing — he put himself on the line. I feel like our family had a stake in this, and it was a terrible day and a scary day, and also we put it to the voters and had that conversation.”
After she brought receipts, the commentator was celebrated on social media.
MK is undefeated at bringing receipts
— M. Henny (@minimax_h) November 17, 2024
You are a baddie Mary Katharine
— A$AP Doctor Muchacho (@Laddball41) November 17, 2024
Thank you for pushing back in an unfriendly venue. Bill has been informed of the election denials multiple times by several people. He seems willfully ignorant at this point.
— Ryan Williams (@ryancwill) November 17, 2024
But but but it’s (D)different. He’s not a presidential candidate. GTFOH.
— The Bitcoin Concigliere (@BTCConcigliere) November 17, 2024
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