Bill Maher, host of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, discussed the outcome of the election with Chris Matthews Wednesday night on Hardball.
On his show last week, Maher had declared that whoever won the result would be good news. “It is your choice, America, because for me it’s a win-win,” he said Friday night. “If it’s Obama, America wins. If it’s Romney, comedy wins.”
Maher told Matthews that the Democrats’ victory proof that America was still looking for change — not in the form of the president himself, but in the way Washington works together.
“I made fun of the Democratic slogan, ‘forward.’ But at the end of the day, people who don’t follow this very closely like we do, just came down to, ‘Yeah, ‘forward.’ I’m not crazy about him, but let’s keep moving forward,’” Maher said.
Along with the presidential election, the two discussed super PACs and advertising, legalizing marijuana, and Donald Trump’s call to conservatives to rally in Washington against the president.
“This guy only two years ago was apolitical,” Maher said about Trump. “I didn’t even know what party he was. I don’t know if he knew what party he was. Now he wants to march on Washington? So…it’s not democracy when your candidate loses?”
Maher had previously criticized Trump for his attacks on Obama, calling him “a racist who doesn’t know he’s a racist.”








