Bill Maher Explains to 'Real Time' Crowd How He Was Tricked by Lying Media
The Rubin Report
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🗓️ 20 April 2026
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Dave Rubin of "The Rubin Report" talks about Bill Maher revealing to the "Real Time with Bill Maher" crowd that mainstream media lied about Hungary's Viktor Orbán being an authoritarian who wouldn't give up power; "Real Time with Bill Maher" guest Rahm Emanuel grudgingly agreeing with Bill Maher that Donald Trump's switching to fighting an economic war with Iran is a positive development; "Meet the Press'" Kristen Welker asking Zohran Mamdani if he still supports the naive ideas of Democratic Socialism after facing the brutal realities of the NYC budget shortfall; Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson causing outrage over his remarks connecting the restaurant industry to slavery in his push to have slavery reparations for African Americans in Chicago; "The Breakfast Club's" Charlamagne tha God asking Ilhan Omar about her skyrocketing net worth due to her husband Tim Mynett's involvement in eStCru winery; Donald Trump posting Elon Musk discussing how Stacey Abrams may be the next target of his fraud investigations; and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | Previously on the Rubin. |
| 0:02.0 | I had no idea until I read the San Francisco article. |
| 0:04.0 | This is the swamp. |
| 0:05.0 | There was this woman, I can't remember her name, maybe you guys remember. |
| 0:08.0 | She was really into concentric circles. |
| 0:10.0 | Everyone, so I'm here in Charlotte. |
| 0:12.0 | Katie, can I call you a DC insider? Is that offensive? |
| 0:15.0 | I mean, she's kind of a big deal. |
| 0:17.0 | Let's go. Well, as long. Hello people on the other side of the screen. |
| 0:44.3 | I'm Dave Rubin. |
| 0:45.3 | This is the Rubin Report. |
| 0:46.8 | It is Monday, April 20th, 2026. |
| 0:50.3 | That's right, it is 420, you dirty hippies. |
| 0:53.6 | Clean up your room. |
| 0:54.8 | Like, subscribe, comment on the program. Happy to have you here. We got a big show. A lot happened over the weekend. Does anyone want to add anything before I dive right in? Everyone's okay. Everyone's okay. I was in New York for the weekend. I had a lot of bagels. I haven't been eating that many carbs lately. And I'll tell you, it's a miracle I'm even alive right now. |
| 1:12.4 | Like you don't eat carbs, like basically don't eat carbs for a couple months, and then you go to the Northeast where all they eat is bagels and pizza and pizza bagels. It could take you out. But here I am, feeling good, ready to roll. So let's dive in. |
| 1:28.3 | You know on Mondays we often start with my friend Bill Maher. |
| 1:31.3 | Something interesting happened on your show. |
| 1:33.3 | Actually, we're going to show you a couple of clips here because a few interesting things happened. You know, one of the things that I say about Bill Maher's real-time show is that it's sort of the airlock for what the mainstream can deal with, meaning all of us online, |
| 1:45.1 | we talk about things like during COVID we were talking about vaccine skepticism earlier, |
| 1:49.6 | that masks don't work early, or we were talking about the Hunter Biden laptop way before it |
| 1:54.5 | got to mainstream, or very fine people before it got to mainstream, you know, just Russia, |
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