Bill Maher Pretty Much Shoved Anthony Fauci Into a Pressure Cooker Last Night
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Bill Maher grilling Anthony Fauci is the kind of thing that shouldn't be newsworthy but is, because for years it simply didn't happen on his side of the dial. Fauci spent the pandemic treated like a man who couldn't be questioned, whose every reversal on masks, lockdowns, and lab origins got waved off as "the science evolving. " Watching a liberal comedian actually press him, on his own show, in front of his own audience, is a small but real crack in that armor.
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Bill Maher has been on a tear, largely because his side has become unhinged. The comedian attacked his side of the aisle again, criticizing the Democratic Socialists of America for revealing their true colors, disapproving of Broadway actors being fired for speaking the truth about transgender issues, and putting Anthony Fauci under intense scrutiny.
No, let’s be real: he put him in a pressure cooker.
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Bill Maher grilling Anthony Fauci is the kind of thing that shouldn't be newsworthy but is, because for years it simply didn't happen on his side of the dial. Fauci spent the pandemic treated like a man who couldn't be questioned, whose every reversal on masks, lockdowns, and lab origins got waved off as "the science evolving." Watching a liberal comedian actually press him, on his own show, in front of his own audience, is a small but real crack in that armor.
What makes it land is that Maher isn't doing this as some born-again conservative trying to score points with us. He's doing it because he's genuinely fed up with his own team's nonsense, and he said as much this same week going after the DSA for showing their true colors and Broadway for firing actors over honest talk about transgender issues. That combination matters. It's not partisan theater when the guy swinging is still very much a man of the left.
We've said for years that Fauci was never held to account the way a public official who reshaped American life for two years should have been. Maher putting him in what the piece rightly calls a pressure cooker doesn't undo that, but it's a start, and it's more scrutiny than most of the press class managed in real time.
The bigger story here isn't really about Fauci. It's about how much longer people like Maher can keep saying the obvious before the rest of his side either follows him or turns on him for saying it.
Commentary written with AI assistance by the New Republican Times Editorial Board.