Bill Maher, clad in his customary suit and tie but hosting HBO’s Real Time from his expansive back yard instead of the studio, ripped media coverage of COVID-19 as “panic porn,” w…
from his expansive back yard instead of the studio, ripped media coverage of COVID-19 as “panic porn,” warning it could get President“News sources have to rein it in,” he said in the show’s closing monologue. “Everyone knows thatis no walk in the park … ‘cause you literally can’t walk in the park. But at some point the daily drumbeat of depression and terror veers into panic porn.”
After showing a parade of doomsday headlines from outlets both highbrow and low, he ranted, “you don’t have to put hot sauce on a jalopeño!” His logic on why this all helps Trump took something of a pretzel shape, but it boiled down to this: Candidates running for a president on an optimistic theme historically fare best.
Maher acknowledged the phrase was accurate as a quote, but “who are they quoting?” he asked. “An event planner in North Hollywood. No offense to the event planners of the world – it’s amazing what you can do with pine cones and a few cans of silver spray paint. But why are you in my headline? How about this: Just tell me millions are out of work without the flashlight under the chin and I’ll decide how I feel about it.”U.S.
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