{"id":16612,"date":"2026-08-30T07:00:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T04:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/maher-left-cant-stand-talking-with-other-side\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T07:00:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T04:00:33","slug":"maher-left-cant-stand-talking-with-other-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/maher-left-cant-stand-talking-with-other-side\/","title":{"rendered":"Maher: Left Can&#8217;t Stand Talking with Other Side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During a Friday broadcast of his HBO programme &#8220;Real Time,&#8221; <strong>Maher<\/strong> made the candid observation whilst discussing a recent meeting between <strong>Jared Kushner<\/strong> and Representative <strong>Hakeem Jeffries<\/strong>, a Democrat from New York, according to <em>Breitbart News<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The exchange unfolded as Florida Representative <strong>Byron Donalds<\/strong>, a Republican who ran for his state&#8217;s governorship, pointed out the asymmetric reaction to the Kushner-Jeffries meeting along partisan lines. Donalds noted that Jeffries appeared to adopt a defensive posture because Democratic Party members were exhibiting alarm over the encounter.<\/p>\n<p>Donalds emphasised that Republicans showed no similar distress about the meeting, contrasting their composure with the anxious response from Democratic quarters. He specifically referenced political strategist <strong>James Carville<\/strong> as an example of Democratic consternation over the engagement.<\/p>\n<p>It was at this juncture that Maher interjected with his unvarnished assessment of the contemporary left&#8217;s unwillingness to participate in cross-party discourse. <em>It is always the left that can&#8217;t stand to talk<\/em>, the host declared, openly acknowledging the pattern of progressive resistance to engaging with ideological opponents.<\/p>\n<p>The comment represents a noteworthy admission from Maher, whose platform has increasingly featured criticism of progressive intolerance and cultural rigidity in recent years, even as he maintains liberal positions on various policy matters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right\"><em>With information from <a href=\"https:\/\/breitbart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Breitbart News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Maher criticized the political left on HBO&#8217;s &#8220;Real Time&#8221; for refusing to engage in dialogue with opposing views during a discussion about a meeting between Jared Kushner and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":16611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[2407,10900,790,5842,309,7822,209],"nfg_topic":[137],"class_list":["post-16612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-bill-maher","tag-byron-donalds","tag-democratic-party","tag-hakeem-jeffries","tag-jared-kushner","tag-political-polarization","tag-united-states","nfg_topic-culture-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16612"},{"taxonomy":"nfg_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nfg_topic?post=16612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}