Veteran news anchor Katie Couric balked at comedian Bill Maher�s assessment
of former President Donald Trump�s town hall on CNN � specifically the claim
that Trump was �killing it� � complaining, �He�s not a stand-up comedian.�

Couric and Maher clashed over the Trump town hall � and Maher�s assessment of
the media�s failures when it came to covering Trump and his supporters �
during a recent episode of Maher�s �Club Random� podcast.

WATCH:

Bill Maher telling Katie Couric why he is bored with the 'negative
view' on Trump, and why he wants to represent the Trump voter's
viewpoint as well:
"Not to defend Trump, but to defend the people who still vote for
him. Because what they see on the other side, to them is even�
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Maher brought up the CNN town hall � which was supposed to have an audience
made up of both Trump voters and independents � and noted that the audience
had been very receptive.

�The audience loved it. The audience loved it,� he said.

�It was stacked with Trump supporters,� Couric complained.

Maher pointed out the fact that it was supposed to be an audience of
Republicans and independents � and said that if CNN had failed to properly
vet them, that was their issue to handle.

�Here�s what people saw in America. They saw Trump killing it. Killing it
with the crowd! Then you cut to a panel of six people who all just do nothing
but dump on him and call him a liar and America goes, �Oh, didn�t you just
see that we like him?� And now �� Maher continued.

�He�s not a standup comedian!� Couric protested.

�What?� Maher asked.

��He�s killing it.� He�s not a standup comedian,� Couric said.

�No, but popularity. Doesn�t matter. The people loved him and what he was
saying,� Maher pushed back. �And then you cut to a panel of six know-it-alls
in Washington who just do nothing but talk about the neg � and I�m all in on
the negative, no one�s been harder on Trump than me, but I get it and I�m
bored with it, and there�s a different way to do this, I think.�

�Not to defend Trump, but to defend the people who still vote for him.
Because what they see on the other side, to them is even more dangerous.
Because it�s very � closer to home: My kid is coming home from school and he
thinks he�s a racist? He�s five, what have you been telling him? My son
thinks maybe he�s not a boy and maybe that�s true, that happens. Those kind
of things are what they say �That�s why I�m voting for Trump�,� Maher
explained.

�A backlash to the pendulum swinging so far to the Left,� Couric said.

Maher concluded by saying that there were some Trump voters who loved him and
some who didn�t but still voted for him because they believed he was the only
thing standing between them and �madness� � and he argued that their position
should at least be presented in media coverage.

[She looks like a bitter bitch, which makes sense.]

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Let's go Brandon!