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Bill Maher Says Outrage Over His Stan Lee Comments Proves His Point

November 22, 2018 | Posted by Joseph Lee
Real Time With Bill Maher

As we previously reported, Bill Maher wrote a blog that criticized Stan Lee after his death for the “dumbing down” of America with comic books, which he says led to the election of President Donald Trump. This resulted in negative reactions from fans all over the internet, with even Lee’s POW Entertainment issuing a statement. In an interview with Larry King Now (via CBM, Maher doubled down on his statement, claiming that the outrage proves his point.

He said he isn’t sure exactly what people are saying about him online, because he “doesn’t follow every stupid thing people lose their shit about” on social media.

HE added: “But talk about making my point for me: Yeah, I don’t know very much about Stan Lee and it certainly wasn’t a swipe at Stan Lee. Yeah, fine. I am agnostic on Stan Lee. I don’t read comic books. I didn’t even read them when I was a child. What I was saying is, a culture that thinks that comic books and comic book movies are profound meditations on the human condition is a dumb [frick]ing culture. And for people to get mad at that just proves my point.

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