Comedian Bill Maher called Bret Baier a ‘moron’ for the Fox News host’s combative interview with Kamala Harris.
The liberal talk show host, 68, said in his Real Time with Bill Maher monologue Friday night that he had “misidentified” Baier, claiming he previously believed he was “the most legitimate journalist on Fox News.” “.
“No, actually, he was a huge idiot,” Maher criticized the journalist.
Maher, an avowed anti-Trump voice, defended Harris’ performance in her interview with Baier, which many of her opponents called a “car accident” and said Baier “ended her campaign.”
Comedian Bill Maher called Bret Baier a ‘moron’ in his Real Time with Bill Maher monologue this week
Maher said he had “misidentified” Baier because he previously believed he was “the most legitimate journalist at Fox News.”
Speaking in Harris’ interview on Fox News, Maher joked that they “were fair,” adding, “They asked her the same question they ask every guest: ‘Don’t you just hate Kamala Harris?’
Turning the focus back to Baier, who clashed with Harris on a number of issues, including his record on immigration and the economy, Maher asked his audience: “Do you know this guy?”
I must say that I had classified it wrong. “I had always heard of him,” he continued.
“I don’t watch much Fox News, so I didn’t know, but they kept saying he was the most legit journalist on Fox News… No, actually, he was a big jerk.”
Maher insisted he was not insulting Baier in a “partisan” way, before repeating: “Well, there’s tough journalism, and then he was just a big dick.”
“So, you know, being the most legitimate journalist at Fox is a little like being the most attractive person at the dollar store.”
Fox News Channel’s Bret Baier (left) sat down with Vice President Kamala Harris (right) Wednesday night in Pennsylvania. On Thursday, she told viewers she played the wrong clip when questioned about recent comments made by former President Donald Trump.
Baier’s interview quickly divided viewers: Harris supporters said he “ambushed” her, while her opponents said it was a “car accident.”
Trump supporter Vince Langman wrote after the broadcast: ‘I forgive Bret Baier. He’s literally ending Kamala Harris’ campaign before our very eyes!’
CNN media analyst Brian Stelter responded that the interview was a positive outcome for Harris.
“A lot of viewers will come away saying, ‘Wow, she’s willing to do that. That’s a sign of toughness and strength,'” Stelter said in a clip shared by the Harris campaign on social media.
However, Baier admitted to his Fox News colleagues this week that he made a glaring mistake during a controversial moment in his interview with Harris.
During Thursday night’s episode of his show, Special Report, Baier told panelists Harris Faulkner and Harold Ford Jr. that there had been a big mistake.
‘Harold, I made a mistake. And I wanted to say that I made a mistake,” Baier said. ‘When I asked for a sound bite, I was hoping that some of the “enemy within” part of Maria Bartiromo’s interview would tie into her town hall piece, Harris, where she asked the former president on “the enemy within.”
Instead, Baier admitted, what developed was simply “the piece about city hall.”
“Just listen to what I wanted to shoot,” he told viewers.
Former President Donald Trump had said Sunday during his meeting with Fox’s Bartiromo that “I think the biggest problem is the enemy within.”
‘Not even the people who have come in and are destroying our country. We have some sick, crazy radical leftists. “And I think they are, and it should be handled very easily, if necessary, by the National Guard, or if it’s really necessary, by the military,” Trump said.
That comment received widespread condemnation, and Harris even played it to her audience Monday night when she held a rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, making it even more obvious when that wasn’t what was heard during the meeting with Baier.
What Baier interpreted during the interview with Harris was the opportunity Faulkner gave Trump to clean up.
“I heard about that,” Trump said during Faulker’s town hall. ‘They said I was like a threat. I’m not threatening anyone. They are the ones who threaten.
‘They do telephone investigations. I’ve been investigated more than Alphonse Capone. “He was the biggest gangster,” the former president continued. ‘No, it’s true. No, but think about it. It’s called militarization of the government. It’s something terrible.
When Harris heard this clip and not Trump’s initial comments about the “enemy within,” she was incredulous.
“Bret, I’m sorry, and with all due respect, that clip is not what he has been saying about the enemy within and what he has repeated when talking about the American people,” Harris said. “That’s not what you just showed,” he objected.
At the time, Baier defended the playback of that clip.
‘Well, they asked him about that specifically…’ Baier began.
“No, no, no, that’s not what you just showed, in all fairness and respect to you,” Harris responded.
“I assure you that was the question we asked him,” Baier said.