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Bill Maher will perform at the BJCC in Birmingham at 8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 15. Real Time with Bill Maher returns to HBO Jan. 21. Find tickets on Ticketmaster.

AL.com spoke to Maher about why he actually loves performing in red states like Alabama, why political correctness is the enemy of comedy, how liberals and conservatives can get along and why American democracy is in big trouble.

(Note: This interview took place Jan 6.)

Youre hitting a lot of Southern cities on this tour: Birmingham, New Orleans, Chattanooga, Jacksonville. Youve said, during COVID, its harder to sell tickets in blue states, that liberal media are scaring people with their coverage, but In red states, its all good to go and people there are maybe more open to edgier humor. What do you like about performing in the South, and if anything, what surprises you about Southern audiences?

Bill Maher: I think you kinda just did my act for me there, all the things you mentioned. I attract mostly a liberal crowd, but liberal is different than woke. To me, woke, if we want to use that broad term, is something that is not an extension of liberalism. Its very often the opposite of what an old school liberal like me believes. Ive never been someone who was part of any specific party, per se. I usually vote Democratic, but it depends on the person. Certainly in the age of Trump, theyre never going to get me there with the Republicans. But there are many Republicans who are not Trump Republicans. And they have a good point, that there is that faction of the left that we will call woke whos gone of the deep end. I was in Nashville three or four months ago, I think the audience there was almost 50-50 between conservatives and liberals, which is quite a trick, I must say, in this era of a lack of bipartisanship, where everything is binary. Gender may not be binary, but politics sure is right now. It was great to see where there were people who dont agree politically who can get in the same room. There were a few groans from the right when I said something bad about them, and some from the left when that happened. But basically everyone laughed together. And we have to get back to that.

This country is falling apart at the seams. Half the people are not going to self-deport. You see these tweets and memes about owning and destroying the other side. Get over it. Youre not owning or destroying anybody. No ones going anywhere. We have to learn to live together again. So I find more of that spirit is possible in a place like the cities you mentioned, whereas San Francisco, thats going to be a little problematic for me. Theyre a little too politically correct. Theres going to be a lot of groaning at some of the things I say, and thats not what a comedy show is supposed to be. Political correctness has always been the enemy of comedy. Thats been my banner from the beginning.

Last summer, you started performing for the first time since February 2020. Nikki Glaser said on your HBO show she stopped performing because she didnt feel it was her type of crowd coming to see her, and you said it was sad that there is an ideological component to that. When you perform, whether youre on tour or doing your HBO show, do you still sense that comedy is partisan, or will most everyone laugh if the joke or idea is funny?

Its very partisan now. I mean, you look at late night shows, it used to be Johnny Carson, Jay Leno, even David Letterman -- you couldnt even tell me what their politics was. They played it down the middle. That was the playbook. But now, I think almost all shows cater to a liberal audience. And you have to basically echo the mantra of the left, whatever it is, on any certain topic -- I always call it the one true opinion -- you have to conform to the one true opinion on whatever the topic is. And that has superseded getting laughs. Thats not where comedy should be. Thats not the game I play, certainly. As people who watch my show over the years know, I often will confront my own audience who will often groan or somehow react negatively to something I say, and I dont apologize for it. Ill tell them I think theyre wrong. And slowly, its kind of nice, over the years now, I feel like Ive gotten much more of a crowd that is open-minded. Theyre not the usual late night crowd who just wants to hear what they already believe told back to them. First of all, thats boring. Its not funny. And it doesnt enlighten us. Thats not what Im interested in. And I feel like the crowd we get now is much more on that page from the get-go.

Youve talked about how its dangerous when we see people on the other side literally as the enemy, that were living in a partisan hell where trying to convince people to believe what you believe doesnt work. When you were a kid, the adults never talked politics. It was considered impolite. But these days, when its oft-discussed and gets very impolite, how do you think we can tone it down the tribalism and ugliness?

Youre right. That is a theme Ive hit many times, that we shouldnt talk about it all the time. Facebook is the great example of that. Facebook, when it started was not political. It was just about sharing your photographs and talking about who got fat from high school days. It was your high school yearbook come to life. It was humble brags and cat pictures. Then it became arguing with some kid you were in chem lab with about ivermectin or the Supreme Court, or whatever. And this idea that we have to constantly be arguing politics with everybody -- thats what has to stop. Because when you take the politics out of the discussion -- and this is coming from a person who made his living talking politics -- you find that people are just people, and you cant hate them. I constantly say it, you can hate Trump. You cant hate all the people who like him -- its half the country. And you cant set yourself up as some sort of superior moral paragon, because this is your political belief, and somebody else has another one. There are obviously areas where, yes, if somebodys advocating cannibalism, I think you can claim the moral high ground if youre anti. I feel like thats the Achilles heel of the left right now. They identify issues mostly by what they can feel superior to another person for.

COVID is a great example. If Im for more safety, Im a better person than you. Well, we can take that to the nth degree and never leave our houses. I believe we tried that in 2020: The great medical advancement of hiding. It doesnt make you a better person if youre wearing three masks or if you want 10 booster shots. But that is the subtext to all of that, I think. First of all, its not true. It doesnt make you a better person. And medical matters are completely debatable. This idea that the medical establishment should be able to say, Just do what we say. When have we ever been wrong? A lot would be my answer to that. Youve been wrong a lot. You told us that the vaccines would get us out of this. Well they didnt. What they do is they stop death. But you said they would stop transmission of the disease. They dont stop you from getting it, and they dont stop you from transmitting it. What they do is stop you from dying if you do get it. Well thats very different than what you said a year ago. So dont just stand there in your white coat saying We have all the answers. You dont. And just to throw in with Dr. Fauci doesnt mean youre a morally superior person. That attitude is what annoys people, I think, mostly about the left.

Ive also heard you talk about liking people you didnt think you were going to like, conservatives like Ann Coulter, how you cant help but like them. And youve had polarizing figures on your show...

Exactly. Thats been from the very beginning. Ive always gotten along with the conservatives who did the show. First of all, its a debate show. Unlike other shows which dont allow the other voices on, I welcome. I want the people I dont necessarily agree with politically. Maybe theyll say something that surprises me and enlightens me and makes me see something a different way. Even better. But even if they dont, theyre allowed to have their opinion if its different than mine. It doesnt mean I have to hate them for it, and Ive never hated them for it. Ive always gotten along with the conservatives. They tend to be happy warriors. They tend to be the kind of people who smile even though they may be saying something I dont think is really the way this country should go. Even the Trumpers who, again like I say, you can hate him, but you cant hate all of them. There are too many of them.

We have to find a way, or else we are going to devolve into some civil war. Theres a frightening number of people who already think it would be a fine idea to have some sort of second Civil War or some secessionist movement or break apart. Its just not possible. The first Civil War, the country was geographically divided. Were not like that anymore. Were all marbled in together. California has 4 million Trump voters. What are we going to do with them if California becomes its own state or part of the new liberal America? Its ridiculous. We have to get along. The way to get along is to understand that its a big country with lots of people who dont think the way you do. I dont know why people cant do that. They do it in relationships. Does your wife or husband think about things exactly the same you do? No. The three most important words are not I love you. Theyre let it go. You cant make everyone agree with you on everything. We have to stop trying.

Marjorie Taylor Greene was recently and permanently suspended by Twitter after violating the companys misinformation policy. Youve spoken in the past about how refreshing it is for people when someone is politically incorrect in their rhetoric, obviously depending on the substance of what they are saying. Even in her case and obviously Donald Trump, when a company like Twitter with the platform it has removes someone altogether, how do you feel about it?

I think the answer to bad speech is more speech. Im certainly not the first one to say that. You can find that from esteemed people on the Supreme Court over the years, mostly liberals. That is the answer to bad speech. Its not to stop it. And Twitter doesnt have any real calling to do that. Theyre a private company. Obviously I understand that they can. But they, for example, shut down debate on the lab leak theory and had to walk that back, so did Facebook. Now theres no political dimension to how the virus started. It should not be a political issue at all. It is outrageous that they said you cant even talk about the idea that this virus may have started in a lab. Why? It may have. It was always a possibility. Everyone now agrees that could be the origin of the virus. So just put that up as your lodestar. This is the company that said you cant even talk about that. Thats dangerous. I dont want that company making the rules about what we can and cant hear. If Marjorie Taylor Greene said something nutty, then let people swarm her on Twitter and point out how nutty it is. And lets let a thousand flowers bloom. But Im never going to be the one who lines up with censorship, no matter who it is.

Finally, tomorrow is January 6th. You said recently youre concerned about the next election, you asked, What happens on January 20th, 2025, when Trump shows up despite election results that say otherwise? Youve also asked, What do you do when there are people in our government who do not believe in our form of government? Do you feel any better or worse about this one year later? Do you think democracy is really in trouble?

Very much so. I hoped the bell I was ringing when I did that editorial about Trump and whats going to happen in the next election. First of all, he is definitely going to run. Hes definitely going to get the nomination. And hes definitely not going to concede. He hasnt conceded this election. The difference with the next one is he will have people in place who will back him up. Thats what he didnt have in 2020. He thought he did. He thought anyone who had an R by their name would be on his side. He didnt count on the fact that there were Republicans with integrity, who told him Im sorry, sir. We looked and we looked and we looked, and you did not win this election. Hes replacing those people. Thats what theyre doing. Thats what I was trying to tell people, and of course other people have made the point to, that behind the scenes they are working right now to put people in place so that next time when he gets on the phone with the secretary of state whose job it is to count the votes and says, as he did in Georgia, I need you to find 11,000 votes, they will say, Were on it, sir. You know what? Good news, we found 12,000. Thats what I worry about. Hes not going to go away as easily as he did in 2020 next time. And thats why January 2025 is going to be where the rubber hits the road in this country. Weve been heading towards this cliff for a very long time, and we always think were the country where it cant happen. Well, we thought that about terrorism. We thought that about everything. Were not exempt. We are the country where it can happen. And when you have two claimants to the throne, I dont know what happens. I dont know what happens in January 2025. But I know if you want to pick a time to take a vacation out of the country, that would be a good time to do it.

Bill Maher will perform at the BJCC in Birmingham at 8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 15. Real Time with Bill Maher returns to HBO for season 20 on Jan. 21.

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Theres this unassuming pub on the corner of 70th and Second thats a dovecote for that rarest of birds: the right-winged Manhattanite. Its called the Beach Cafe. Cindy Adams comes here. Theres a burger on the menu named after Roger Stone ($16, egg on top). You pop in for an afternoon Guinness and theres Eric and Donald Trump Jr. having lunch with their aunt Elizabeth Trump. The New York Post columnist Miranda Devine its something of a Post hangout will throw a party here soon for Laptop From Hell, her new book about Hunter Biden.

This is like our Elaines, says Ann Coulter, sitting to my left one evening and sipping Sauvignon blanc. Or like Cheers for Rupert Murdochfriendly Establishment types. Its where everybody knows their name. (And nobody wants to defund the police.)

Its not that there arent Republicans in the city; we all know that. Its just that on most corners of this island, theyre outnumbered eight to one. But not at the Beach, as they call it. It doesnt try to be chic. Theres a lifeguard stand out front and a six-foot hammerhead shark above the bar. The banquettes are Kelly green. The food is whatever, though the burger is on par with the one at J.G. Melon. And unlike at J.G. Melon, you never have to wait outside.

The Beach opened in 1966, three years after Elaines and long before Tribeca got luxe, back when nobody who was anybody would live very far into Brooklyn. The Upper East Side was the happening place. Arthur Miller, George Plimpton, and Frank Sinatra used to come. As the city changed around it truth be told, maybe this corner of the city less than most the Beach Cafe became a mainstay. The neighborhood is conservative in the purest sense of the word: Its the opposite of cool. To move here which I did recently is to step back in time.

Stone, talking on the phone from Florida, calls it an oasis of red in a sea of blue. He used to live near the Beach Cafe and would go often during Trumps first campaign to dine with, among other people, Corey Lewandowski. That he regrets, however. I had not yet realized he was a congenital liar and a scumbag, says Stone. Hes watching news footage of Steve Bannon surrendering to federal authorities and muses about his old comrade: Somebody should rush him to a dermatologist and a haberdasher immediately. (A few days later, Stone would be subpoenaed by the same congressional committee, which is investigating the Capitol riot.)

A Nixon Republican and Roy Cohn disciple Nixon lived on Fifth Avenue, and Cohn on East 68th Stone says he loves New York but hasnt returned to the city since the FBI raided him in 2019. When he is here, he claims the Upper West Side is no longer safe for him. People who dont share my political point of view might verbally and sometimes physically attack me, he says.

Donald Trumps various manias didnt make things any easier for city Republicans, who traditionally have been more sensible pro-business types. The GOPs recent good showings have given some hope for a future beyond Trump. I predicted he would fade like Palin gone in three years. Now I think hes gone even faster, says Coulter. How did we win in Virginia? How did we almost win in New Jersey? By keeping him out of it. She is sharing her bottle of wine with Jon Levine, the Post gadfly who recently scooped that AOCs Tax the Rich dress designer is herself a rich tax cheat. He hangs out here so much that, on a wall in the center of the dining room, there is a massive framed photograph of him dining outside on Second Avenue in a blizzard. Coulter owes him a steak because she made a bet Glenn Youngkin wouldnt win in Virginia. Shes down a rib eye but ecstatic nonetheless.

Its liberals who cant let go of Trump, she insists. Fifty years from now, well all be dead, and theyll still be running against Trump. Unlike some people who come to this bar, she accepts the results of the 2020 election. Oh, the fraud, she laughs, using air quotes. Hes a big fat loser.

Coulter has not watched Impeachment: American Crime Story. I hear the actress does a great job sounding like me, but every single fact Ive heard about the show is totally, 100 percent false, she says. Exhibit A: Laura Ingraham didnt introduce me to Drudge; I knew him long before she did, she says. Idiots seem to think that Laura and I are like Blair and Serena, sharing clothes and gossiping, but we fill the same conservative girl niche, so wed rarely even be in the same room. She adds, They should have used Isikoffs book. Toobin knew nothing.

R.E.M. is playing on the stereo. Former chief judge of New York Jonathan Lippman stops by the table. The conversation turns to Rikers Island. I dont understand why they cant just knock it down and build a new one, Coulter says to the judge. For one thing, it sits atop a landfill, he tells her. I love landfills, she exclaims. Shoreline Stadium, where the Grateful Dead played thats on a landfill!

At the bar, theres a banker from JPMorgan Chase discussing how he voted for Curtis Sliwa. Coulter spots an old friend a few seats down, an ber-preppy she knows from the Hamptons. (Theres something very Hamptons about the Beach.) Coulters brother, a lawyer, frequents this place, too. He has dined here with former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson, whose parents lived around the corner. Representative Carolyn Maloney (shes a Democrat, but hardly a trendy one) comes here. As does Woody Allens second wife, Louise Lasser. John Gottis lawyer Bruce Cutler is a regular. So is Linda Fairstein, the controversial prosecutor best known for her involvement in the Central Park Five and Preppy Murder cases. She helped keep the place in business during the long years of the Second Avenue subway-line construction. You could be sitting in the Beach and there would be blasts underneath and dust all around outside, remembers Fairstein.

It was founded and owned for many years by the White family. For a while, it seemed the restaurant might one day pass into the hands of Bill White. He became a president of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum and a major Democratic Party fundraiser who had David Boies officiate and Aretha Franklin perform at his same-sex wedding. Then White went full MAGA. The about-face scandalized liberal Manhattan and infuriated Clintonworld. He relocated to Atlanta and is now leading a carpetbagger campaign to try to get his wealthy white suburb to secede from the city. Today, the restaurant is owned by Dave Goodside, who began working there in 1984 and bought it in 2005. I dont think hes had a day off in five years, says White. Hes a warrior.

Stone says the main reason a scene coalesced at the Beach Cafe is due to Goodside: Dave is a saloonkeeper in the tradition of Toots Shor. Hes very discreet, he knows a lot, he sees a lot, he puts people together, separates people. Hes introduced me to some people, and hes warned me when other people are there and I shouldnt come in. Such as? Certain writers with low IQs like Molly Jong-Fast. My father said to never trust anybody with three names, says Stone. (Jong-Fast says, If Roger Stone is trying to avoid me, then I must be doing something right.)

Goodside says hes neither a Democrat nor a Republican. Im more interested in sports and music, he says. In 2017, he began hosting cabaret nights in the little dining room. Performers including K.T. Sullivan and Karen Akers would turn up. The critic Rex Reed would get on the mic, too.

Still, Goodside must realize most New York restaurateurs would not name a menu item after Stone. I got a chance to really spend a lot of quality time with Roger, and I like him, Goodside says, shrugging. What about Uday and Qusay Trump? People may watch TV and read the papers and think of them however, but they are the nicest people that come in here, he says.

What does Cindy Adams like about the place? Im fond of the owner, she says, who keeps sending me gifts of chili which I dont even want.

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Why such a sourpuss, Joy-Ann? On the whole, life and MSNBC are treating you pretty well. And yet, over the last 10 years, you have complained pretty much nonstop about how badly you, and people who look like [you], are treated in America.

I will take on faith, Joy-Ann, that your life up to age 16 spent in the racist hellscape that was 1980s Denver, Colorado was practically a maelstrom of cross burnings, Night Riders and segregated water fountains.

Lets focus on the recent past.

You were admitted to Harvard with SAT scores that would have gotten an Asian kid disowned by his parents.

You manage to keep your show at MSNBC with ratings that would get a white person canceled.

People try harder to laugh at your excruciating jokes than they would for a male of any race.

Plus, I have it on good authority that no one at MSNBC has pestered you about touching your hair.

Your brief daytime show on MSNBC made ratings history, garnering only 38,000 viewers in the demo its first day on air the lowest for the entire network! That inched up to 56,000 viewers two days later, the second lowest for the network. Ronan Farrows show debuted the same week. But while he was quickly cashiered for poor ratings you were promoted, even though he is white and you are Black. Dodged a bullet there!

You werent prosecuted for making a false FBI report when you claimed that right-wing saboteurs had hacked your blog, planting long, venomous threads about gay people. It seems your go-to attack for celebrities and Republicans is to accuse them of being gay. (For example, you described Dick Cheney topping off Sean Hannity and repeatedly ran your Top 5 totally not gay celebrities of the year.)

Nor were you fired for your preposterous, and quickly disproved, lies about having been hacked when it was you who mocked people for being gay including Oprah.

Your many, many blog posts sneering at gays were written just 10 years earlier, when you were an adult and a professional journalist. Meanwhile, teenagers even white ones! are being thrown out of college for the stupid things they said on Snapchat when they were 15. But you came through like a champ, without consequence despite being Black!

Indeed, instead of firing you, MSNBC gave you a prime-time show. This is the network that canned Chris Matthews (astonishingly, another white male) for telling girls theyre pretty. And who took the humiliated Matthews time slot? YOU DID! Despite the fact that he is white and you are Black.

Actually, if you think about it, in a deeply racist, majority-white country, youve done pretty well issuing nonstop libels against white people. Here are three recent quotes:

Joy-Ann: Ill say it again: People on the right would trade all the tax cuts for the ability to openly say the N-word like in the good old days.

That comment, like many made by you, seems at variance with the facts, and not based in reality. But has your delusional hatred of white Americans held you back? Not sos youd notice.

Joy-Ann: Currently, most K-12 students already learn a kind of Confederate Race Theory, whereby the Daughters of the Confederacy long ago imposed a version of history wherein slavery was not so bad and had nothing to do with the civil war, and lynchings and violence never happened.

Were you taught Confederate Race Theory at your high school, Joy-Ann? You know, the high school in Denver, Colorado, in the 1980s? My heart wants to believe you, but my head is telling me, This woman is a lunatic fantasist.

Ill tell you why I say that. Just 10 years after you matriculated at Denvers diverse Montbello High School, a Nation of Islam minister was invited to speak, whereupon he told the assembly (all boys, no girls allowed) that, while Blacks were building the Egyptian pyramids, white people ate their dead and slept with animals. Even you have to admit, THAT wasnt racist.

Joy-Ann: (I love boxing because) its a sport, even at the turn of the 20th century, where a Black man could beat up a white man in front of an entire crowd and not get lynched.

Wow. People who are actually descended from American slaves Joy-Ann is not one of them dont hate white Americans that much. Yet, strangely, white Americans, despite being white, havent held that against you.

Your immigrant parents came here in the late 1960s, settling in Iowa. Perhaps you rank Iowa up there with Denver as a bastion of Jim Crow, but even you would have to concede it was a step up from Guyana and the Congo.

While having zero American slave ancestry, you have managed to elbow aside actual descendants of American slaves (DOAS), gobbling up the benefits earned by their ancestors suffering, and intended for them. That was a good deal for you!

Finally, notwithstanding the White Power Structure, you have a job that reportedly pays $1.5 million a year, which is more than 99.9 percent of Americans make even several white ones! All in all, that doesnt sound so bad.

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It is the other major networks that lie, cover up or won't cover stories of the Democrats' misconduct and corruption. They lie about police shootings as well as the stories about Kyle Rittenhouse and Nick Sandmann, claiming Rittenhouse was guilty of murder and Sandmann was abusing an innocent Native American man.

They will lie about the police shooting a Black man that has committed a crime or is wanted for crimes. They falsely claim the victim is innocent, unarmed and a pillar of the community. They do this no mater what the evidence is.

They lie, cover up or won't cover the stories of the sexual abuse by former President Bill Clinton, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and President Joe Biden. The Democrat politicians are afraid to tell the truth to their addled brained voters because they will lose their votes.

They continue to do this in so many other stories like the false claims of collusion between former President Donald Trump and Russia. The corruption committed by Biden and his son Hunter along with Hillary Clinton. They have been after Trump even before he announced his candidacy. They all laughed and thought it preposterous when Ann Coulter said Trump would be the candidate. So much for those brilliant minds.

They took Christine Blasey Ford's word as gospel and judged Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh guilty no mater what the other testimony said. They incessantly say the exact same words as their counterparts say. They all jump onto the next story and twist and lie to keep their sheep in the fold.

Now I will give Tony Bender a back-handed compliment. It was good to see him use some common sense, no mater how hard it was for him. There wasn't any other conclusion but innocent in the Rittenhouse case.

I want you to visualize this scenario. A Black man was accused and found innocent of raping and killing a young girl. Riots erupted and stores and vehicles were looted and burned. The protesters were joined by members of the Ku Klux Klan. Two Black youths were asked to help defend a friend's business. While doing this they were confronted by the mob. They were verbally abused, threatened with their lives and attacked. They defended themselves and were chased by several law-violating thugs. They shot three of them in self defense.

Now Fox News would be wrong to claim them guilty of murdering or trying to murder the three individuals. But that is what several major networks and talk shows falsely claimed Rittenhouse was guilty of.

So which networks are the most untruthful? I could list many other stories where these networks and major newspapers like the New York Times falsely try to convince their viewers of individuals being guilty of committing rape or other serious crimes. Fox News makes mistakes but they are angels compared to the other lying hypocrite networks.

I would vote for Trump again, but he would have to watch his mouth and use a lot more tact in his statements. Maybe, though, he has to fight fire with fire.

Darlan Fatland is a resident of Walcott, N.D.

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Ann Coulter, conservative commentator and author, described the left-wing subtext of Kyle Rittenhouses murder trial as a demand for conservatives to just stand there and be murdered when attacked by leftists.

We are supposed to just stand there and be murdered, Coulter said on Fridays edition of SiriusXMs Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow. Thats our obligation, because the media decided they dont like us.

Coulter highlighted Rittenhouses presence of mind and skilled shooting during the events captured on video.

She remarked, There are a lot of people Kyle could have shot if its just, Oh my gosh, Im panicked, Im shooting! Oh no, he was very precise shooting someone who was about to kill him, to take his gun, kill him, kill others.I was thinking as I often do, as Im sure you and your listeners do thank God for cell phone cameras.

Coulter noted that Gaige Grosskreutz, a witness in the trial, was essentially forced to admit the truth of events due to existence of video documentation. She speculated that Grosskreutz would have lied about the events in the absence of video evidence.

There is no way that revolutionary the one who had his arm blown off as he was pointing a gun feet away from Kyle Rittenhouses head theres no way he would have told [the truth], Coulter said. I was sort of surprised watching his testimony, Oh my gosh. He keeps telling the truth, and then I realized theres a video of this.He cant deny that. He was pointing the gun at Kyle Rittenhouse from five feet away when Kyle fired.

Rittenhouses marksmanship in disarming Grosskreutz without lethality was praised by Coulter as noted how leftists regularly oppose their political opponents use of self-defense.

She stated, Thats some good shooting to shoot the arm holding the gun. Thats the crazy thing. Liberals are always saying after a shooting, usually [after] a self-defense, Oh, why couldnt you shoot him in the leg? People who know anything about guns know youre not going to get that precise.You are shooting to stop the threat. Youre lucky if you hit any place on the body and Kyle bam right through the arm holding the gun.That was incredibly impressive.

Coulter also highlighted some background of Joseph Rosenbaum, who was shot and killed by Rittenhouse.

Joseph Rosenbaum, the first one [Rittenhouse] shot he came out of a mental institution that day and was still carrying his little medical bag, she recalled. Hes been convicted of anally raping five little boys convicted, served time in prison for that. So, were dealing with obviously a very mentally ill person. There was a lot of video coverage of him screaming the n-word.

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