Bill Maher calls out SNL for zombie lie that Republicans are racist, warns they are not helping

Talk show host Bill Maher called out liberal writers on “Saturday Night Live” for their portrayal of conservatives, arguing they used an outdated stereotype.Maher spoke about the current state of American culture with fitness icon and commentator Jillian Michaels in an episode of “Club Random” released on Sunday.After Maher spoke about Trump’s unique appeal as a brash outsider willing to be called “deplorable” by his detractors, Michaels marveled at how Democrats are still tarring his supporters.“The whole ‘deplorable’” thing,” Michaels said, referring to then-Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton infamously smearing Trump’s supporters as “a basket of deplorables,” noting, “They’re still doing that.”Michaels recalled having met outspoken liberal actor Tom Hanks multiple times, saying he was “lovely” in person, but crossed a line with his portrayal of a Trump supporter on “Saturday Night Live.” Hanks portrayed a caricature of an unkempt racist Southerner in a MAGA hat named “Doug” several times on the sketch comedy show.

In one famous moment in the recurring “Black Jeopardy” sketch, Doug initially balks at shaking the hand of the Black host, before eventually relenting.“I hated it too, and I said it on my show.I know.

I hated it.Wearing the MAGA hat, not shaking hands with a Black person.

And that’s when I thought, ‘You people don’t know MAGA people,’” Maher said.“I mean, they have their issues and I certainly have my issues with them, but they’re general — I mean, of course, there’s some racists everywhere who are that bad, but generally, all the MAGA people I know have no problem shaking hands with a Black person.”Maher then appeared to address the people behind such a portrayal by declaring, “You’re just hysterical, and you’re not helping.”Maher referred to such a smear of Trump supporters as a “zombie lie.”“Mostly what I hate is, it’s what I call a zombie lie.

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