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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Sat Aug 6, 2016, 10:56 AM Aug 2016

Bill Maher Faced Off With Julian Assange and It Was Amazing

Bill Maher faced off with WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange over the DNC email hack and wow, was it quite something.

The interview started out normally, with Maher challenging him on the idea of a big “smoking gun” in the DNC emails. Assange pointed to evidence of plots against Bernie Sanders, but Maher said there were no plots. And then Maher accused Assange of “working with a bad actor, Russia” to take down “the one person who stands in the way of us electing Donald Trump!”

Assange went ahead and upped the ante by bringing up a “William Maher” he found who donated money to a Clinton-affiliated organization, and proceeded to confront Maher over whether it was him. Quite a bit. Maher said, “Fuck no.”

Maher even asked him why he hasn’t targeted anything of Trump’s for hacking yet. Assange wryly says, “We’re working on it.”

more + video:
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/bill-maher-faced-off-with-julian-assange-and-it-was-amazing/

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jcgoldie

(11,631 posts)
2. I thought Maher started off strong
Sat Aug 6, 2016, 11:00 AM
Aug 2016

Then he ended up sucking up to him telling him he hoped he'd win a nobel prize. Specifically, he hardly touched the fact that wikileaks is a tool of Putin, he just criticized him for favoring Trump over Clinton.

 

MindPilot

(12,693 posts)
8. That article didn't even get the name of his show right.
Sat Aug 6, 2016, 12:48 PM
Aug 2016

And if being an vegetarian animal rights activist who questions some of things the medical establishment does makes one a loon, then count me in. The article is five years old and mostly wildly exaggerated BS.

reorg

(3,317 posts)
9. I have no great love for Mr Maher
Sat Aug 6, 2016, 01:09 PM
Aug 2016

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but I totally believe that he means what he says when he calls Mr Assange his 'brother'.

He didn't 'face off' with the interviewee, he just asked the questions his audience would expect him to ask, providing Assange with the opportunity to react and make some excellent points.

A more informative in-depth interview with Assange on these questions can be found at RT:

Going Underground, Julian Assange special

 

davidn3600

(6,342 posts)
10. WikiLeaks doesnt do the hacking or even really the digging
Sat Aug 6, 2016, 01:11 PM
Aug 2016

WikiLeaks is a clearing house of information. They rely on hackers and whistle blowers to give them information. They then leak that information while protecting the source from retaliation.

They are like a middle man between a leaker and the general media.

Although it may be clear Assange clearly has an agenda against Hillary, he's not a hacker himself. He can't go hack into the RNC.

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
15. a lot of authoritarians hate Bill Maher because he supports things like legal pot
Sat Aug 6, 2016, 04:57 PM
Aug 2016

the "it's not progressive to allow people to enjoy their own lives" wing.

he refuses to pay sufficient lip service to inane arguments like "allowing women to wear bikinis to the beach is a morally equivalent outrage to forcing them to wear a burqa"




He can be an idiot and an ass, certainly, and when he gets on the topic of science and medicine some of the stuff he spouts is cringe-worthy at best; still, he's oftentimes spot on.

elias7

(4,009 posts)
16. I might be crazy, but I thought I saw Maher acknowedging $1 mil donation to Obama in 2012
Sat Aug 6, 2016, 06:43 PM
Aug 2016

and when Assange asked if he was going to donate $1 mil to Hillary, he said "Fuck no....I can't donate a million dollars every presidential election". Maher also cut Assange down by stating that that donation was made quite publically and did not require the wiki hackers or connections to uncover this.

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