Overtime - Episode #422: Conflict Fatigue
Real Time with Bill Maher
HBO Podcasts
4.1 • 15.8K Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2017
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to an HBO podcast from the HBO late night series Real Time with Bill Mo. |
| 0:06.2 | Okay, here we are on the internet for our well how do you combat conflict |
| 0:10.5 | fatigue and apathy among Americans for humanitarian disasters abroad? |
| 0:16.0 | That's something that we struggle with every single day and I think that's one of our main |
| 0:20.6 | responsibilities as journalists. We have to keep going out there and trying to figure out new |
| 0:25.0 | and different ways to present a story. We cannot allow a sense of utility to silence us |
| 0:30.1 | or to stop us and frankly for us combat fatigue is not a luxury that we have. We cannot stop, |
| 0:36.0 | we cannot stop fighting for these basic humanitarian principles for children that are dying, |
| 0:41.1 | for people that are starving because if we stop fighting for that then what kind of a world do we live in? |
| 0:46.2 | But also take on the lie that the aid makes no difference because that's the biggest lie of all. |
| 0:51.4 | Actually if you go and see what does the education do, what does the health do? |
| 0:54.9 | It makes a huge difference and the biggest lie is that American aid is making no difference at all. |
| 0:59.8 | Okay, David what do you think of... |
| 1:01.8 | Sorry, sorry, was that only for her? Sorry. |
| 1:05.0 | No, no, no, it's for everybody. I'm really rude to interrupt. |
| 1:08.1 | No, there's no rude here, please. If anyone's rude here it's obviously... |
| 1:11.4 | I don't think so. |
| 1:12.6 | No, it's always a jump ball. What do you think of Theresa May calling for a snap election? |
| 1:18.6 | It's a sign of her strength because she's 20% ahead in the polls, |
| 1:22.6 | but it's also a sign that in six months time the economy is going to be down |
| 1:26.7 | and these European negotiations are going to be nasty, brutish and long. |
| 1:31.8 | But the Jeremy Corbyn is that the Labour guy in Britain? |
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