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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 hasnt targeted anything of Trumps for hacking yet. Assange wryly says, Were working on it.
more + video:
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/bill-maher-faced-off-with-julian-assange-and-it-was-amazing/
underpants
(182,834 posts)That was my take anyway
Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)jcgoldie
(11,631 posts)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.
Archae
(46,337 posts)RelativelyJones
(898 posts)Archae
(46,337 posts)MindPilot
(12,693 posts)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.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I would have liked to seen his ass kicked.
reorg
(3,317 posts)Last edited Sat Aug 6, 2016, 02:19 PM - Edit history (2)
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)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.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)Sure, bro.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)fucking anti-Semite.
uponit7771
(90,347 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)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)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.