{"id":267947,"date":"2026-02-01T00:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T00:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/267947\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T00:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T00:49:07","slug":"bill-maher-is-back-with-new-roolz-why-evolution-is-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/267947\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Maher is back with New Roolz \u2013 Why Evolution Is True"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bill Maher is back, and this week he has a particularly good comedy bit: \u201cNew Rule: Eyeroll Activism.\u201d His topic is similar to Ricky Gervais\u2019s scathing remarks<\/a> at the 2020 Golden Globes in that both men excoriate Hollywood for its virtue signaling, with Maher beginning with the wearing of anti-ICE pins at the Golden Globes. And since Hollywood is identified with the Democratic Party, Maher claims that this virtue-signaling, in which celebrities weigh in on political issues they know little or nothing about\u2014but thinking that their \u201cstar power\u201d gives them extra credibility\u2014is said to turn off the average viewer.\u00a0 Maher argues that such \u201cGolden Globe activism\u201d actually works against liberals.<\/p>\n

Here are the two money quotes. First, referring to ideological lapel pins:<\/p>\n

\u201cGet out of here with your virtue-signaling body ornaments. They are just crucifixes for liberals, because every time I see one I think, \u2018Jesus Christ!’\u201d<\/p>\n

and to the signalers:<\/p>\n

\u201cI know it\u2019s very important to you that you feel you\u2019re making a difference, so let me assure you that are. You\u2019re making independents vote Republican.\u201d<\/p>\n

The longer (23-minute) overtime segment<\/a> with guests Marjorie Taylor Greene<\/a> and MS Now host and former congressman Joe Scarborough<\/a>, is not as funny, but Maher gets into it with Scarborough about attitudes towards America, and also shows a bit of the attitude that gets Maher labeled as an anti-vaxer.\u00a0 He seems to be pretty ignorant of the science attesting to the safety and efficacy of vaccinations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bill Maher is back, and this week he has a particularly good comedy bit: \u201cNew Rule: Eyeroll Activism.\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[146,85,46,411],"class_list":{"0":"post-267947","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}