Comedian Larry Wilmore Tells Bill Maher That Biden’s Morehouse Speech Was ‘Condescending’

Biden asked the graduates, "What is democracy if you have to be 10 times better than anyone else to get a fair shot?"

Bill Maher blasts Biden's racism-stoking speech to black graduates at Morehouse College: 'Not helpful'



"Real Time" host Bill Maher blasted President Joe Biden's racism-stoking speech to graduates of traditionally black school Morehouse College over the weekend as "not helpful" and inaccurate.

Biden spent part of his commencement address at the Atlanta school calling out what he sees as a racist America: "It’s natural to wonder if democracy you hear about actually works for you. What is democracy if black men are being killed in the street? What is democracy if a trail of broken promises still leave black communities behind? What is democracy if you have to be 10 times better than anyone else to get a fair shot? And most of all, what does it mean, as we’ve heard before, to be a black man who loves his country even if it doesn’t love him back in equal measure?"

'We're not living in the year where you have to be "10 times better" to succeed if you're a person of color. And in some instances, it's an advantage.'

During his appearance Monday on Fox News' "Gutfeld!" Maher wasn't buying it.

"First of all, it's anachronistic. I mean, that speech would've made sense some years ago. I think we should acknowledge that racism still persists, and we should always be making ... remedies for it," Maher began. "But we're not in the past."

He added, "I always keep saying, let's live in the year we're living in. We're not living in the year where you have to be ‘10 times better’ to succeed if you're a person of color. And in some instances, it's an advantage. In some places, it's not an advantage, but we're not living in that world that he's talking about. And I don't think that helps anybody."

'Old and ancient'

Maher also noted during the episode that Biden looks "old and ancient" while former President Donald Trump "does not," even though they're "almost the same age." Biden is 81; Trump is 77.

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National Public Radio covered Biden's commencement speech and noted that "polling shows potentially lower support for his reelection efforts among black voters and young voters." Biden also spent time during his address railing away at Trump, who likely will face him in November's election.

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Unpacking Liz Cheney’s commencement con-job



Liz Cheney recently gave a commencement speech at Colorado College, and Mark Levin is here to unpack it and all its never-Trumper glory.

“Cheney hates Trump because he didn’t agree with her on some of the foreign policy positions she took. It’s that simple. And then she developed into this self-righteousness and so forth. I’ve seen this happen before,” Levin explains.

Levin notes that half of the audience members are turning their backs to Cheney as she walks out, but the other half, who are facing her, are applauding her.

“Why are they applauding her? Because she hates Trump. That’s it. Why else did she get the professor job? Because she hates Trump,” Levin says.

“If she’d just been Liz Cheney, they would hate her.”

Levin explains that those who are turning their backs to her are doing so because “there’s nothing she can do for the radical Marxist left that they would appreciate enough.”

“Because her name is Cheney, and Cheney’s too stupid to even realize it.”

Cheney takes to the podium to gain favor among the young audience.

“I’d been elected as a member of the House Republican leadership,” she began, “but after the 2020 election and the attack of January 6, my fellow Republicans wanted me to lie. They wanted me to say that the 2020 election was stolen,” she said.

Levin watches unenthused.

“Wow, that’s not what happened. You went on your own little jihad against Trump and the conservatives,” Levin says.

Cheney continued, saying that the Republicans wanted her to lie as well about January 6 not being a big deal and Donald Trump being “not dangerous.”

“She’s been talking for what now, two minutes? And Donald Trump, she mentions Donald Trump,” Levin critiques.

“She’s at a commencement speech, and she’s talking about herself, and what she had to face, and the bad Republicans, and Donald Trump — rather than talking about the future, rather than talking about the kids, rather than talking about our history, our philosophy.”


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Biden calls Coast Guard grads 'really dull' when they don't clap during his commencement address: 'C'mon man! Is the sun gettin' to ya?'



President Joe Biden was up to his old tricks during his commencement address for U.S. Coast Guard graduates Wednesday, letting loose with a short-fused pointed put-down when they didn't applaud him on cue.

"I can only assume that you will enjoy educating your family about how the Coast Guard is, quote, the hard nucleus around the Navy formed in times of war," Biden said during the ceremony in New London, Connecticut, which was his first commencement address as president.

But when Biden's words elicited nothing but silence, he broke through the lull with one of his famous unscripted verbal punches.

"You're a really dull class," Biden remarked with some exasperation. "I mean, come on, man! Is the sun gettin' to ya? I would think you'd have an opportunity when I say that about the Navy to clap."

With that, some laughter and applause was audible. Hey, what the commander-in-chief wants, the commander-in-chief gets, one supposes:

Joe Biden calls Coast Guard graduates “dull” when they don’t clap during his speech https://t.co/STnvJxMuLl

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The "hard nucleus" quote, which the Daily Wire said Biden "botched," comes from a speech former Vice President Dick Cheney gave during the U.S. Coast Guard Academy's commencement in 2008.

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At another point in the speech, Biden also quoted communist Chinese dictator Mao Zedong to praise the large number of female graduates in the class and the increasing number of women in leading military positions. "There's a saying we use in a different context, it's a Chinese saying, it says, 'Women hold up half the world.' It's an absolutely stupid position not to make sure they represent at least half of what we do."

Biden quotes Mao Zedong in address to Coast Guard Class of 2021: "Women hold up half the world." He goes on to say… https://t.co/a3aMqFoHQb

— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) 1621442330.0

Anything else?

For those who've been watching Biden over the years, it comes as no surprise that beneath the sort-of-joking tone he took with the Coast Guard grads for not applauding him is a real temper just waiting to show itself at any moment.

A few days ago the New York Times published a story based on interviews with over two dozen current and former Biden associates that said the president "will often snap" at staffers and issue "outburst[s] of frustration often laced with profanity."

But Biden hasn't always buttoned his lip in that respect in public settings.

In his first debate last fall with then-President Donald Trump, Biden referred to Trump as "buddy," said he "doesn't know what he's talking about," challenged the president to "keep yappin'" — and at one point asked Fox News moderator Chris Wallace and the audience, "Folks, do you have any idea what this clown's doing?"

And earlier in 2020, Biden treated the American people to a showdown with an auto-plant worker in Michigan, telling the voter, "you're full of s**t."

In fact, Biden ended up pointing his finger right in the worker's face, which led the man to tell Biden, "This is not OK, all right?"

Then Biden really lost it: "Don't tell me that, pal, or I'm going to go outside with you."

"You're working for me, man!" the worker angrily replied.

"I'm not working for you," Biden growled back. "Don't be such a horse's ass."

Here's the clip. (Content warning: profanity)

WATCH: "You’re full of sh*t," @JoeBiden tells a man who accused him of "actively trying to end our Second Amendment… https://t.co/K0HsdiPyAb

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