*Bill Maher picked an awkward audience for his latest rant against HuffPost and BuzzFeed. The comedian tore into both outlets as “woke” on “Club Random” while sitting across from Byron Allen, who now owns them.
As Mediaite reports, the criticism starts with how the sites treat him. Maher says they are “horrible to me.” He also pinpointed when he believes HuffPost went downhill. “Once [Arianna Huffington] left, [HuffPost] became the most woke,” Maher said, calling the outlet “ridiculous.”
Allen replied, “Yeah, now I own it … I control 50, it’s publicly traded, I control 52%.”
“Someone’s f*cked now,” Maher said before naming the root of his frustration with the sites and with liberals in general: “the purity.”
Scroll to continue reading
Maher dismissed much of their worldview as “silly and insane revolutionary garbage from people who don’t know facts, or history, or perspective.”
He saved his sharpest words for the staff. “All these places are a bunch of … snarky, f*cking millennial, probably nepo babies,” he said, adding, “They are not America.”
Allen Family Digital, LLC finalized its BuzzFeed, Inc. purchase on May 27. The deal covered 40 million shares and cost $120 million.
Allen laid out his goals when the sale closed. “Jonah [Peretti] is a great visionary and has done a phenomenal job,” he said in a statement. The media mogul described a vision of “expanding into free-streaming video, audio and user-generated content.”
Allen added that “with the power of AI,” BuzzFeed is “officially chasing YouTube” as a free-streaming service.
MORE NEWS ON EURWEB.COM: Byron Allen Donates $100,000 to Nolan Wells GoFundMe
We Publish Breaking News 24/7. Don’t Miss Out! Sign up for our Free daily newsletter HERE.
