On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 10:37 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > I, OTOH, have never been a fan of Maher. But I have thought of him as a > smart enough broadcaster to know that "Milo" is not smart or funny enough > to make it worth his while to establish any kind of "at least were both > courageous enough to criticize Muslims" schtick. Of course for Maher that > is just a subset of his anti-religion fetish. Which is the basis of my mild > interest in this question; is it possible that Mahr's obsessive hatred of > anything religious is so extreme, irrational and rigid that he would > genuinely look to someone as pathetic and inadequate as "Milo" for an ally? > I have to think not, and that he just thought he might as well mine him for > whatever curiosity ratings points he might still have. >
I think Maher was looking for the most provocative guest he could find. He doesn't have to produce ratings as ad money doesn't drive HBO and I doubt people decide to subscribe or drop subscriptions based on Real Time. What Maher does have to do is maintain his brand and his reputation for being edgy. Whether his guest can make for a good segment is another story. I haven't watched Maher in a number of years, but he was good at media criticism and at criticizing the infantilism that comes from a hyper-consumerist society. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
