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“Real Time” host Bill Maher closed his show Friday night with a scathing takedown of the viral turmoil The Washington Post experienced earlier this month.
“If you missed it, the Washington Post recently got embroiled in a self-inflicted s—storm when one of their best reporters David Weigel retweeted, not tweeted, retweeted this joke: ‘Every girl is bi. You just have to figure out if it’s polar or sexual,'” Maher began. “The comedian who actually wrote the tweet called it a banal, throwaway joke, which is exactly what it is- throw away, as if you don’t like it, throw it away.”
Maher blasted the “unlicensed daycare center that is today’s newsroom” for going “apes—,” pointing to reporter Felicia Sonmez’s tweet publicly shaming Weigel, who had removed the retweeted and apologized.
THE WASHINGTON POST’S WEEK FROM HELL
“Of course, the leadership at the Post folded like a Miami condo and suspended Weigel without pay for a month and denounce the offending retweet is a ‘gross violation of their values.’ – free Speech apparently not being one of them,” Maher quipped. “For days, [Sonmez] raged with the fire of a thousand burning bras, sending a gazillion tweets calling for more to be done against Weigel, mocking her bosses attacking colleagues and letting the world know how much the Washington Post sucked. And this endless bickering and infighting continued online in public view until the bell rang and they all went to seventh period.”
Washington Post reporter Felicia Somnez was fired after spending nearly an entire week berating her colleagues on Twitter, including David Weigel.
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The HBO star pointed out how he hadn’t pointed out the age of Sonmez nor her “quarreling co-workers” because he “didn’t have to.”
“The New York Times just read an op-ed entitled, ‘Why are we still governed by baby boomers?’ This is why,” Maher told viewers. “Because too many millennials are…