Invoice Maher mocks newspaper endorsement uproar at WaPo, LA Occasions

“Actual Time” host Invoice Maher took a swipe at newspapers that imagine their endorsement within the presidential race has any affect as uproar over The Washington Submit and The Los Angeles Occasions selecting to not endorse has dominated headlines. 

“So I learn within the paper at the moment that The Washington Submit and The LA Occasions for the primary time ever [are] not endorsing a candidate on this race but,” Maher started the dialogue. 

“Initially, it is charming they suppose it issues to anyone. It is hysterical to me,” Maher later stated. “They suppose a newspaper editorial goes to vary one thoughts, however up to now, it is what we have accomplished.”

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“Actual Time” host Invoice Maher stated “it is hysterical to me” that newspapers imagine their endorsements can affect voters. (Screenshot/HBO)

The HBO host then shared the “two totally different theories” he examine, one being “Gen Zers within the workplace” refuse to again Vice President Kamala Harris for not being progressive sufficient since “they’re all for Hamas,” and the opposite being how each papers are owned by billionaires and that they are those making the choice. 

Whereas one visitor, Democratic Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, dismissed the notion that youthful staffers are “calling the photographs” in what candidates the paper endorses or does not endorse, Maher’s different visitor, CNN commentator Van Jones, chided the papers, saying that is “most likely not the election to take a seat out.”

“If this factor goes as badly as it’d, when it comes to a Trump victory, after which a yr from now, two years from now, we’re dwelling in a scenario the place all of the belongings you simply described are taking place, I do not suppose anyone’s gonna be pleased with the truth that they ducked — had nothing to say, no opinion,” Jones stated.

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The proprietor of The Los Angeles Occasions revealed his paper wouldn’t endorsing and candidate for president within the 2024 race.  (AFP PHOTO/GABRIEL BOUYS)

Whereas Maher later agreed with Jones that paper endorsements matter on an area degree, he doubled down on his perception that it might sway him in federal races.

“I do not need to make up my thoughts on a poll by what the newspaper is telling me to do, as a result of I do not belief the newspaper. I do not belief anyone,” Maher stated. 

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The Washington Submit’s personal reporting alleges its billionaire proprietor Jeff Bezos was behind the choice to withhold an endorsement for Vice President Kamala Harris. 

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LA Occasions proprietor Dr. Patrick Quickly-Shiong advised his paper that it might not endorse any candidate within the presidential race, citing divisive instances. 

Days later, Washington Submit CEO and writer Will Lewis made his personal announcement, saying the “Democracy Dies in Darkness” paper would not endorse both and would return to its “roots” whereas striving to stay impartial. 

Each papers sparked widespread condemnation from their liberal readers and have even led to resignations of prime editors over the choices.