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The Highwire with Del Bigtree

BILL MAHER’S COVID RANT UNDERSCORES THE HIGHWIRE’S EARLY ACCURACY

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

Health & Fitness, News, Society & Culture

4.93.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

In a recent fiery segment on “Real Time,” Bill Maher unleashed a scorching critique of the oversights made by government and health officials during the COVID-19 pandemic. This viral moment offers a retrospective journey back to January 2020, highlighting how “The HighWire” was way ahead of the curve in exposing these critical misjudgments—from the debate over school closures to the undervaluation of natural immunity.

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I was just sitting backstage thinking how I say that at the top of every show but I really

0:05.4

really think about what that means we're an international show millions of people watching

0:10.4

around the world right now someone's crawled out of bed at about 4 a.m. in Australia

0:16.0

to watch the High Wire. They do this every single Thursday. Someone in Isard by

0:20.6

Jean is staying up. It's about 10 PM hanging on for those last words

0:25.4

to get their fix with a high wire.

0:27.1

And why?

0:27.7

I mean, why are they doing it?

0:29.3

Why are we becoming this sensation around the world?

0:32.0

Maybe because we have such an amazing track

0:35.1

record of getting the story right when everyone else got it wrong. Well we

0:41.0

like to say every once in a while, I told you so.

0:44.2

It doesn't make us happy because a lot of lives have been lost and destroyed because of

0:48.6

what we got right.

0:50.1

But this week, and I told you so, came from a unique place from a very liberal space

0:56.2

known as Bill Maher on the Bill Maher real-time with Bill Maher show.

1:01.2

Take a look at what he said just this week.

1:05.0

I get it that we didn't know exactly what was happening at the beginning of COVID and some mistakes were inevitable.

1:11.0

But four years on, I'm tired of hearing, well, we didn't know.

1:16.0

No, we didn't.

1:17.0

But some people guessed better than others.

1:20.2

And the people who got it wrong don't seem to want to acknowledge that now.

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