Bill Maher questions media avoiding Doug Emhoff controversies: Wouldnt that make it look worse?

“Real Time” host Bill Maher questioned whether it was wise for the liberal media to continue avoiding the growing controversies surrounding Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff.“There’s a lot of scuttlebutt in the news this week about Doug,” Maher said in a panel discussion on Friday’s “Overtime” online segment of his HBO show.“If people don’t know what’s going on, the Daily Mail is reporting that three women [Emhoff’s ex-girlfriend] talked to contemporaneously, which has been the standard very often in these cases, that she said back in, I think, 2011 or something, they were at the Cannes Film Festival.

He slapped her.He thought she was flirting with the valet.”“He knocked up the nanny, right? That’s confirmed,” conservative radio host Buck Sexton chimed in.“That’s confirmed.

He definitely knocked up the nanny,” Maher responded with a chuckle.“What I’m saying is, if this becomes more credible- and we don’t know yet.

I mean, a lot of the conservative outlets still aren’t reporting it, so I wouldn’t go after anybody for not reporting it yet because these things have to be checked out.But if it becomes more credible, certainly on the level of Brett Kavanaugh, which was that kind of thing was reported by everybody pretty quickly.

Does the liberal media keep ignoring it?”“Yes, they will.Absolutely,” Sexton answered. “Wouldn’t that make it look worse?” Maher then asked. CNN anchor Laura Coates responded by saying it is “prudent” for the media to be “cautious” about such serious allegations like the ones facing Emhoff “until you have the supporting details,” adding that it’s “fair” to look into the claims. “What I don’t think is fair is to, and I’m consistent on this on all accounts, is to tar and feather without more,” Coates said.

“I think you have to give information to people, and you have to actually do your homework and background.I don’t think by not reporting- and again,...