LOL, all that sucking up didn’t really do much for Maher, I guess. I still watch him as almost a hate-watch, and skip over the worst instances of his guests as they usually have very uninteresting things to say. His monologue has really gone downhill and his nonsense takes on trans and Israel/Palestine is just…facepalm. It’s like he’s someone that absorbed all the takes of the Murc’s Law Media from c. 1990s (and the early 90s, before most people started using the 'net, not even the later 90s when the fever started to show signs of breaking, just before 9/11 set things back for a bit) and then just stayed in that mindset related to Israel especially. He seems to have really internalized the bullshit narrative that being critical of Israel is “antisemitic”. What a fucking hot steaming load that is.