Maher Urges Amazon to Build Headquarters in West Virginia While Mocking Values of Middle America

Ryan Foley | February 23, 2019
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Host Bill Maher closed Friday's edition of Real Time by urging Amazon to build its new headquarters in middle America but not for the reasons you might think. Maher used the occasion to mock middle America and the values it subscribes to. Maher argued that "if liberals are serious about winning elections, they have to start re-colonizing the parts of the country they've abandoned" before proclaiming that "if we keep leaving the red states behind, they are going to keep getting angrier and crazier." Maher then outlined an elitist fantasy of what would happen if Amazon moved to West Virginia: "people get better jobs that don't give them black lung, the locals meet people of different backgrounds and races and sexual orientations...they find out gays don't ruin anyone's marriage but they do improve the karaoke scene."  Maher predicted that should Amazon open up a headquarters in West Virginia, a gym "that admits women" would open, implying that red states see women as second-class citizens. Maher concluded: "Before you know it, there's legal weed and decent healthcare and the schools are teaching science again." Maher had previously trashed middle America during his opening monologue, when he talked about Jussie Smollett and how "he paid two men $3500 to assault him for being black and gay, something he could have gotten for free in Texas." 

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