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“I don’t think you can judge that by Barbie not be nominated,” Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) told Bill Maher tonight when the host asked him if the snub of blockbuster director Greta Gerwig and star Margot Robbie in the Oscar nominations means that The United States is a patriarchy or not.
When Maher attempted to link the Barbie discussion about Hillary Clinton’s failed 2016 campaign, Schiff put things into real perspective about Real time. “I’d vote for a corned beef sandwich over Donald Trump,” he joked to applause. Don’t say it lightly, but at least a corned beef sandwich would have some intelligence and wouldn’t be a dictator from day one.
Just days after a full debate between the leading candidates for California’s open Senate seat, Rep. Schiff found himself back in the slightly warm seat tonight on the HBO show. Real Time with Bill Maher. Blockbuster Barbie It earned several well-deserved Oscar nominations earlier this week, including Best Picture. However, Gerwig and Robbie were left out of the Directing and Best Actress categories, which has seen a tsunami of outrage in the days since.
An almost regular in Real time over the years and clearly admired by Maher, the green room-friendly Schiff is the favorite to take the late Dianne Feinstein’s place in the seat the former San Francisco mayor held from 1992 until her death last year. past. Appointed by Golden State Governor Gavin Newsom in September 2023 following Feinstein’s death, current Senator Laphonza Butler announced in October that she would not run for a term of her own.
The Hollywood congressman since 2001 and one of Trump’s deepest thorns during the first Celebrity ApprenticeDuring Schiff’s reign of terror and error, the very well-funded Schiff has been leading the Senate race since he left his hat in January 2023. While anything could happen in California politics, the real battle is for No. 2 spot with Democratic Rep. Katie Porter and Republican/former Dodger challengers Steve Garvey fighting to make the March 5 primary.
Schiff shared panel time on Real time tonight with a big Democratic donor and Ted Kingpin Seth MacFarlane. And there was a lot of love there, as the duo made clear after the show:
during tonight Real time, some don’t-barbies The snubs arose earlier, when Maher narrowed the 2024 presidential election to about eight swing states, none of them California.
“I wish the worst thing I felt would be ignored,” Schiff said of the electoral realities and the possibility of Trump returning to the White House. “I’m terrified.”
“How is it possible that this man who says he wants to be a dictator from day one, who has been accused of 91 serious crimes, who has been accused twice, who led an insurrection, how is it possible that he is fleeing with the nomination? of one of the great parties in the United States? The former Impeachment Manager continued to say about the MAGA leader. “That to me is terrifying.”
“Even if you look at what I consider his least transgression,” Schiff told Maher. “He’s sitting in the Oval Office, behind the Resolute Desk, signing cash paychecks to a porn star,” she added of Trump’s attempt to cover up his affair with Stormy Daniels. “How is it impossible for that guy to be a candidate for president?”
Without naming Daniels, Schiff took a well-planned stab at the notoriously sneaky and deceitful Trump: “Apparently she was the only contractor who actually got paid.”
Later on CNN Real time after the show Over timeSchiff said it was “true justice” that a New York defamation trial jury ordered Trump to pay $83.3 million to writer E. Jean Carroll, who last year won another sexual assault case against Trump. in the mid-1990s. “All he cares about is himself and money, and chasing money is the only way to achieve true justice.”
Trump already said Friday night that he will appeal this latest verdict. Noticeably looser Over time opposite to Real timeSchiff then predicted that Joe Biden will win in November because “at the end of the day, America is going to have a president who is a decent human being, who doesn’t make fun of other people.”
Although aware of his poise and his words before voters, Schiff in Real time He played to his own base and then plunged the sword deeper when he talked about immigration and Trump’s empty or cruel promises of reforms and tough measures. “That’s not a politician, he’s a con man in Donald Trump.”
Unsurprisingly, when it came to his own party’s candidate for the White House in 2024, future Senator Schiff had nothing but praise for the incumbent Biden, especially when it comes to immigration across all issues.
“I think one of the things the president is doing now, something we really haven’t done in the last year, is get involved in this issue, take ownership of it and explain why what the Democrats are offering,” the loyalist soldier said. Schiff. he said of an issue that the Republican Party on the state and national stage has been attacking Democrats with for years. “Bill, I think what the party has done, which is a mistake, is take the view that when we talk about immigration, that is the issue that they favor. “We want to talk about the topics that are favorable to us.”
“That’s a very common political strategy, but it’s not working,” Schiff told Maher. “We have to lean into this. The president today is leaning towards this, he is criticizing Republicans for killing a possible bipartisan bill.”
A potential immigration bill that senators on both sides were close to reaching consensus on until Trump demanded that Republicans now choke to deny Biden a potential victory, as both Maher and Schiff noted on Friday.
Before Schiff and MacFarlane appeared on the show, Maher sat down with the always opinionated ESPN host Stephen A. Smith. The two bonded over their mutual distrust of the government, the media, and everything else except sports, with a swipe at nepo babies.
Before that meeting, Maher delivered his usual topical monologue to the studio audience. Reviewing topics like those Oscar nomination snubs Barbie’Along with Gerwig and Robbie and, of course, Trump’s dominance of the Republican race with his latest victory in the New Hampshire primary, Maher came out with one of his best quips in a long time.
“The race is over,” he said, pointing to the reality that the 2024 election will be a repeat of the 2020 election between Trump, now 77, and Joe Biden, 81. “This is bad news for the country.” , very good news for the people who build ramps on debate stages,” Maher said, to loud applause from the crowd.
The only moment of the night to counter that was MacFarlane’s perfect moment in response to a Schiff story about false information on social media that his sister (the congressman has no sister) had married the daughter of progressive financier George Soros. As Rep. Schiff told the story of the attack he suffered over this, the Family Guy creator pulled out his phone to “delete some text messages.”
They all lost it, in the best way.