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Creedence Clearwater Revival's classic song 'Fortunate Son,' is an antiwar song that questions why the people who start the wars never fight in them. This is something antiwar types, particularly on the Left, have asked in every major war in America's history.
But when Donald Trump asked the same about Liz Cheney, the media spun his comments to mean that Trump wanted Cheney put before a firing squad.
That's not remotely what Trump said. Not even a little bit.
It was an outright lie.
And Bill Maher called the media out on it.
In an interview with Tucker Carlson on Thursday, Trump accused Cheney of always seeking “to go to war” and suggested she might not be so in favor of an aggressive foreign policy if she’d had guns “trained on her” on the battlefield.
Maher blasted media outlets that tried to portray that as Trump wanting Cheney to be executed.
Maher said on Friday, “I woke up today to the headline that Trump had called for a firing squad for Liz Cheney, and this is what I really don’t like about the media."
No, he didn’t.
He added, "You don’t have to move me to not like Donald Trump."
His guest, podcaster Michael Moynihan said, “He says so many s****y things, why do you have to do that?”
Maher continued, “Just to be clear, this is exactly what hippies always said. This is exactly what peaceniks always said."
Maher even brought up Creedence Clearwater Revival, saying, “This is ‘Fortunate Son’ the song. It’s like, you know what? It’s very easy to sit in your building and send young men to die.”
“I don’t like Donald Trump,” Maher added. “Don’t lie to me and tell me he wants her in front of a firing squad. He was saying something that, by the way, if it came out of the mouth, some of it, not the stupid part, again, sounds like what hippies used to say.”
Moynihan added, “It’s counterproductive. I mean the number of Trump people you talk to who talk about the media and giving them any ammunition like this. I mean, I saw headlines, chyron on television this morning saying that Donald Trump had said that [Liz Cheney] should be executed."
"I mean, at the beginning of that kind of rambling, incoherent thing, he said give her a weapon, which is not typically something you do to someone you’re going to execute," Moynihan added.
We're now on the eve of the election. We knew the whole time that the Democratic comms team... uh, we mean, the corporate press, was going to lie as much it could to get Democrats across the finish line.
Here is just one more lie from them, in the home stretch.
Good on Bill Maher for calling it out.
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