Bill Maher slammed rapper Macklemore’s anti-American antics as he attacked young voters for a lack of patriotism.
The comedian, 68, issued a scathing rebuke of the attitude of America’s youth on his show, Real Time with Bill Maher, and singled out Macklemore for leading a ‘f*** America’ chant at a pro-Palestine festival this week.
Maher said: ‘The protests that started off as justice for Palestine have morphed into a broader kind of “America is the problem, we f****ed up the whole world’ thing.”
‘Last weekend… when the rapper Macklemore said f*** America, everybody loved it,’ he went on, branding the rapper ‘talent-free.’
Bill Maher unleashed on rapper Macklemore during the ‘Real Time’ segment of his show this week as he attacked young voters for a lack of patriotism
The comedian singled out Macklemore (pictured in May) for leading a ‘f*** America’ chant at a pro-Palestine festival this week, branding him ‘talent free’
Maher highlighted Macklemore’s anti-American chant took place in a nation where he has the freedom to do so, and drew parallels between the rapper and ironic ‘Queers for Palestine’ protest groups.
Speaking of the ‘f*** America’ chant, Maher said: ‘I’m sure it was a big hit with the queers for Gaza crowd, (who are) literally advocating for a government that would imprison you or kill you for being queer.
‘From the safety and security of a country that doesn’t do that.’
As the talk show host pulled up a picture of Macklemore, he added: ‘Yes America, where a white guy from the suburbs could become a millionaire rapper.
‘Because here every person regardless of race, class or gender, has the right to be talent-free.’
Macklemore, shown in March 2023 in Texas, has been highly critical of United States foreign policy as the war between Israel and Hamas has intensified
Maher singled out the ‘queers for Gaza crowd’, who he said are ‘literally advocating for a government that would imprison you or kill you for being queer’
Macklemore, real name Benjamin Hammond Haggerty, made the anti-America remark at a charity festival to benefit Palestinian refugees a week ago.
The 41-year-old Seattle native hit the stage at the Palestine Will Live Forever Festival in support of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees and encouraged people to ‘straight up’ join the chant.
The rapper told the audience he wasn’t going to stop them if they did and then said, ‘F*** America’ as the audience erupted into cheers.
He has been highly critical of United States foreign policy as the war between Israel and Hamas has intensified, and released a protest song in May 2024 titled Hind’s Hall in support of the 2024 pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses.
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