Bill Maher BLASTS CNN Kaitlan Collins For Her Hypocrisy & Everyone Hates It!
The slow, agonizing suicide of legacy media is not a tragedy; it is a farce. We are witnessing the final, gasping breaths of an industry that decided somewhere along the line that its job was not to report the truth, but to curate a reality that exists only in the minds of the coastal elite. Nowhere is this delusion more palpable, more suffocating, and more pathetically hilarious than at CNN. For years, the network has paraded itself as the standard-bearer of objective journalism, a claim that has become so detached from reality that it now functions as a punchline. When Bill Maher recently sat down with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, the collision wasn’t just between two pundits; it was a collision between the curated fiction of the establishment and the undeniable, brute force of the real world. Maher, who has increasingly become the voice of frustrated common sense, didn’t just criticize Collins; he dismantled the entire fraudulent architecture of modern cable news.
The conceit of CNN—and specifically of anchors like Collins—is that they are neutral arbiters of truth, standing boldly in the center of the political arena. Collins had the audacity to claim that her network is the place where “both sides” can watch. The laughter that erupted from Stephen Colbert’s audience when a similar sentiment was expressed previously should have been a wakeup call, but introspection is a trait completely absent in the modern newsroom. Collins represents a generation of journalists who view their profession not as a service to the public, but as a crusade against the bad orange man. They believe their mission is moral, not factual, which justifies every omission, every spin, and every trap they set.
Maher’s critique cut through this self-righteous fog with surgical precision. He highlighted the fundamental dishonesty of the media’s engagement with Donald Trump. Take, for instance, the interview tactics Collins employed regarding the war in Ukraine. This wasn’t journalism; it was a hunting expedition for a soundbite. She pressed Trump on who he wanted to “win,” a binary trap designed to paint him as either a warmonger or a Putin apologist. Trump, to his credit, sidestepped the snare by focusing on the loss of life, a humanitarian answer that left Collins scrambling. But the moment revealed the game. They don’t want answers; they want ammunition. When they don’t get it, they double down, twisting the narrative until it fits the pre-written script that Trump is a monster and they are the saviors of democracy.
However, the rot goes much deeper than just unfair interview tactics. It is rooted in a breathtaking hypocrisy regarding how the media treats political scions. Maher’s evisceration of the double standard applied to Hunter Biden versus Donald Trump Jr. was perhaps the most necessary commentary of the year. We have watched for years as the media apparatus shielded the Biden family with a ferocity that borders on praetorian. Hunter Biden’s laptop, a trove of evidence suggesting influence peddling and corruption that would have ended any other presidency, was buried. It was actively suppressed, labeled Russian disinformation, and ignored by the very people whose job it is to investigate power.
Maher rightly pointed out the absurdity of the defense. We are supposed to believe that Joe Biden, a career politician, was completely unaware of his son’s business dealings, even as Hunter was selling access to “the big guy.” If Donald Trump Jr. had been caught selling access to his father in exchange for millions from foreign adversaries, CNN would have dedicated a 24-hour channel solely to his prosecution. The media would have demanded public executions. Yet, because the corruption wears a blue tie, it is treated as a “personal struggle” or a “distraction.” This isn’t bias; it is election interference by omission. It is a deliberate attempt to curate the voter’s reality by hiding the rot within the Democratic establishment while magnifying every perceived flaw of the Republican alternative.
This hypocrisy turns from frustrating to dangerous when we discuss the rhetoric of violence. Collins tried to corner Donald Trump Jr. regarding the threats against his father, attempting to absolve the media of any blame. It was a display of gaslighting that was almost impressive in its audacity. For nearly a decade, the mainstream press has equated Donald Trump with Adolf Hitler. They have called him a fascist, a dictator, and an existential threat to the survival of the republic. When you tell a population every single day that a man is the reincarnation of the 20th century’s greatest monster, you do not get to act surprised when someone takes a shot at him. You are the architect of that radicalization. To then turn around and lecture the victim’s family on “rhetoric” is a level of moral bankruptcy that is difficult to comprehend.
The media’s entitlement was further exposed in the recent skirmish over Oval Office access. Caroline Leavitt, representing the incoming administration, correctly noted that access to the President is a privilege, not a right. This sent the press corps into a predictable tailspin of victimhood. Yet, where was this outrage when Karine Jean-Pierre was restricting access? Where were the cries of “authoritarianism” when the Biden administration was hiding the President’s cognitive decline from the public? The press corps was complicit in the greatest cover-up in modern political history—the hiding of Joe Biden’s senility—and now they demand we respect their role as watchdogs. They are not watchdogs; they are lapdogs who only bark when their masters are out of power.
Jean-Pierre’s criticism of Leavitt is the height of irony. This is the woman who stood at the podium and lied to the American people daily about the President’s fitness for office. She gaslit the country, claiming videos of Biden wandering off were “cheap fakes,” right up until the moment he collapsed on the debate stage and the lie became unsustainable. For her to now lecture anyone on transparency is grotesque. It proves that for the establishment media and their political allies, standards are merely weapons to be wielded against opponents, never principles to be lived by.
The most damning indictment of CNN and its ilk, however, comes from the American people themselves. They have simply stopped listening. The attempt to label Trump’s recent speeches as “divisive” failed because the public saw with their own eyes what the media refused to report. When 69% of viewers have a positive reaction to a speech that CNN labels a disaster, the disconnect is absolute. The media is speaking a language that only they understand, broadcasting to an audience of the converted while the rest of the country moves on.
Bill Maher’s final advice to the media was simple: when you are in a hole, stop digging. But they cannot stop. To stop would be to admit that they were wrong, not just about Trump, but about their entire worldview. It would require an admission that they are not the enlightened vanguard of history, but merely out-of-touch elitists who lost the plot. So, they keep digging. They double down on the snark, the bias, and the hatred, convinced that if they just scream loud enough, reality will bend to their will. But the ground has shifted. The trust is gone, burned on the altar of partisan activism. CNN and the legacy media are not dying because of Donald Trump; they are dying because they committed suicide by abandoning the truth. They are shouting into a void, and the silence staring back at them is the only verdict that matters.
