Thats why news organizations are catering to ideological niches.
Melber claimed people at Fox know theyre lying, adding the hosts were in on it.
Maher countered by asking Melber whether MSNBC isnt guilty of doing the same thing at times.
He later slammed the practice of treating debate as narrative hunting.
Will MSNBC be critical of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigiegs slow response to the disaster be criticized, Maher asked.
Predictably, Melber blamed Trump, a movement completely trying to delegitimize fact.
We are going to be even-handed.
He cited the civil rights movement and the coverage of Selma as one example.
Isgur had one last point on that.
He then reeled off a montage of great films and television where the main creatives hated each other.
In one example, he cited director Roman Polanski denying Faye Dunaway a bathroom break.
Whereby, she pissed in a cup and threw it in his face.
The dynamic powered Chinatown, which, as Maher pointed out ironically is about hoarding water.
Government needs to learn to do the same thing, Maher said of cooperation despite hate.
