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Real Time with Bill Maher

Overtime – Episode #384 (Originally aired 04/15/16)

Real Time with Bill Maher

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4.115.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2016

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Overtime – Episode #384 (Originally aired 04/15/16) - Bill and his roundtable guests Arianna Huffington, Susan Sarandon, Amy Goodman, Mary Katherine Ham and Rick Tyler answer fan questions from the latest show. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to an HBO podcast from the HBO late night series real time with Bill Maher.

0:06.2

Hey, here we are answering questions that people have sent in.

0:09.8

Amy has the mainstream media covered this election fairly.

0:13.2

Absolutely not. Let's have a season without polls, okay?

0:17.7

Instead of the media pouring millions of dollars into these polls that turn out to be wrong.

0:23.0

I mean, there's a poll every week or every two weeks. What is it? It's a primary or caucus.

0:27.6

And then, yes, find out who voted, who didn't vote, and of course the vast majority of people don't vote.

0:33.4

But pour that energy and those millions of dollars, pour those investigations into what these

0:38.7

candidates really represent, what their records are. Instead of they spend all their times doing

0:43.5

the false polls that they themselves admit, how did we get it so wrong? And then they spend that

0:47.5

time from polls, polls saying, how did we get it so wrong? Instead, we need to know what these

0:53.6

people represent. I think we know. I'm sick of what they

0:57.5

represent. I'm telling you, I could do their act for them.

1:01.0

I completely agree with Amy. I mean, just look at the way they've covered Donald Trump.

1:04.8

They've given him kind of unlimited covers that allowed him to fall in even on the Sunday morning

1:10.8

shows. And you know, you had Bob Woodward, supposedly this journalistic icon,

1:16.0

interview him for 90 minutes and not ask him once about his being a birther,

1:21.1

about his wanting to ban an entire religion, about his inciting violence, nothing.

1:26.2

Well, and if we had no polls, what would Donald Trump talk about?

1:29.5

And I mean, look at, look at, look at, one day March 15th, I think they called it super

1:35.5

Tuesday three, five primaries. You had Ohio, Kasek one is first. You had Florida,

1:41.5

Marco Rubio pulled out. You had North Carolina, Illinois, and Missouri. Okay. So,

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