Bill Maher—never one to tiptoe around progressive sensibilities—left The Young Turks’ Ana Kasparian visibly scrambling during a blistering exchange on Club Random this week. And let’s be honest: it was a masterclass in dismantling the left’s favorite excuses.
The moment that detonated the segment came when Maher challenged Kasparian with a simple, devastating question: Name one Middle Eastern city you’d rather live in than Tel Aviv. Just one.
“You can pick one city, any city… you could live in Karachi, you could live in Cairo, you could live in Oman, Jordan; you seem to love Lebanon, I mean, Beirut’s nice when the bombings [are] not happening and the assassinations have stopped,” Maher quipped, sharpening his sarcasm like a blade.
Kasparian—decked out in a sleeveless white dress that would get more than just disapproving glances in most of the region—began reaching for the usual progressive boilerplate.
“I’m sure it would not be comfortable in this dress in any of the various Middle Eastern countries that have been destabilized—”
Maher pounced.
“Destabilized?! You’re not really blaming it on whitey, are you? You’re blaming Islam on whitey?”
“I’m not blaming Islam on whitey,” she insisted, but Maher wasn’t buying the dodge.
“But what you’re saying — we destabilized, that’s why you can’t wear that dress?!”
As the crosstalk intensified, Kasparian dropped the Obama-era talking point: America “funded terrorist organizations” in Syria. But Maher pressed the point like a prosecutor:
“You’re saying you can’t wear that dress in Syria because of whitey destabilizing?”
Kasparian shot back, “I didn’t say that. You’re putting words in my mouth.”
“Great, that’s what it sounded like,” Maher replied.
He wasn’t letting her escape the real issue—women’s rights (or the lack thereof) under Islamist societies.
“You want me to talk about jihadism and Islam,” Kasparian began.
“Why won’t you?” Maher pushed. And in a moment progressives usually try to memory-hole, he laid down a point even liberals quietly admit: “It’s not just Jihadism that is preventing you from wearing that dress. Are you saying every Muslim is a jihad? I don’t think they are.”
Yet Kasparian still refused to answer the original question: which city beats Tel Aviv in terms of western freedoms?
“I would figure something out,” she muttered—an answer so vague even she seemed embarrassed by it.
Maher didn’t let her off the hook.
“Come on, you’re gonna get killed for that, for good reason,” he said after she refused to choose between Tel Aviv and Karachi. Kasparian then suggested her outspoken criticisms of Israel might make her unsafe living there—though she did not explain why those same criticisms would earn her a death sentence in many neighboring countries.
Finally, backed into a corner where reality was impossible to ignore, she conceded:
“I’m sure a woman of my age who grew up in the western world would probably feel the most comfortable in Tel Aviv, I will concede that.”
Maher’s reaction? “Wow,” he sighed, exhausted from dragging common sense across the finish line.
And as if the fireworks weren’t enough, Maher revealed earlier in the podcast that Jimmy Kimmel and his wife were “mad” at him after he criticized her for warning relatives not to vote for Donald Trump. In Hollywood, telling people how to vote is applauded—unless you dare question the dogma.
This is one stupid dishonest female. Her dress is not only childish but would set her muslim victim friend’s hair on fire. Wake up you idiots, Islam exists for conquest. It is the religion of rape, murder and pillage. Take a little tour of the muslim world at war but if you want to survive cover up the boney knees, skinny arms and fake blond hair. You are a fraud through and through. See and own the reality of the muslim jihadis or kiss your ass goodbye.
Israel is not a great friend of America, as has been pushed since its inception, but there is no comparison of living conditions for women, with any Islamic country!
I would, and any person with a brain, would pick Israel over any Muslim controlled city, or state!
Now to Israel not being a great friend of America, before you people out there blow a fuse, here are the reasons. Israel will not deport at least two known pedophiles that are wanted by the USA. In the 67 war Israel attacked a United States Naval ship the USS Liberty, with unmarked jets and attack craft, tried to kill all, sink the ship, and get us involved in that war. They knew it was an American ship, because they had flown over it for days, it was the only ship in that area, flew a large American flag all the time, even during the attack, and as all American Vessels have large letters and numbers on them.
After bombing it, shooting it numerous times, napalming it, and shooting up their life rafts, sent in attack craft to torpedo it.
But, in the end it survived, despite Israel wanting it sunk and all hands dead. I think around 190 men were killed, and many wounded. This was covered up by our own president, and our military. These survivors have yet had a chance to tell their story in any court! Israel has yet to acknowledge their attack, and the deaths of our men.
Israel also committed atrocities on the Palestinians when Israel was first being born. Millions of Palestinians were violently kicked out of their homes, thrown off their lands, and many were slaughtered ( men, women, and children).
In their fight to clear Gaza of Hamas they have hit over ten hospitals.
Now in Israel’s favor they are fighting Muslims and that is a huge point for them. I am not anti- Israel, but those acts, plus stealing our secrets and other things do not make Israel our friend.
Now I would stand with Israel against any Muslim state, but I personally wouldn’t call them a friend.