HBO’s Bill Maher’s habit of reducing a chaotic scene to one photograph continued on Friday’s episode of Real Time, where he compared a photograph of the Alex Pretti shooting to The Last Jew in Vinnitsa photograph during the Holocaust. Joining Maher at the table was MS NOW host Joe Scarborough, who, in other Minneapolis news, declared former CNN host Don Lemon’s arrest was meant “to scare other journalists.”
Maher recalled last week’s show when he declared, “That’s why I showed this picture last week. We can show it again. Executions in the streets. This reminded me of the one from Vietnam in 1968 that changed hearts and minds. This week there's another one. We had a second shooting that looks just like this. That's what people are seeing. Pictures worth a thousand words. That did not happen under Obama.”
It’s ironic that Maher thinks pictures are “worth a thousand words” because when he compared Renee Good to the Viet Cong prisoner in the Saigon Execution photograph, he omitted that the man who took that photo acknowledged that photos, and his in particular, are incapable of telling the whole story. Now, Maher is comparing a frantic situation involving a man with a gun that is currently under investigation to a Jewish man being shot in the back of the head by the Nazis during the Holocaust in front of a mass grave full of people who had already been executed.
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