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HBO host Bill Maher is a reliable progressive, and spent most of Friday’s episode of Real Time with Bill Maher railing against Republican lawmakers and defending Roe v. Wade. But the reason that Maher maintains a strong following among right-of-center Americans is his candid willingness to criticize his own side. This week, he took aim at the Biden administration’s Orwellian new initiative, the Department of Homeland Security’s so-called “Disinformation Governance Board.”
“The Department of Homeland Security was itself always a creepy name,” Maher lamented. “We just got used to it.”
“Now they’ve got an even creepier one, ‘Disinformation Governance Board,’” he continued. “Yes, Republicans are right to compare this to [George Orwell’s 1984] and the Ministry of Truth, that’s exactly what it sounds like.”
Maher pointed out that some of the board’s stated objectives, like countering Russian government propaganda and human trafficking, seem unobjectionable. But the host went
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