Bill Maher concluded his Friday night show by denouncing comedian Hasan Minhaj for admitting to telling made-up stories that Minhaj called “emotional truths.”
“Hasan Minhaj, the comedian who answers the question, ‘What if Jussie Smollett stood up?'” the “Real Time” host said.
“This dangerous idea that has taken root in America, that something is true just because you want to believe it is true, needs to go.” When the right does this, we call them conspiracy theories, and rightly so. When the left does it, we call it “emotional truth.”
Minhaj admitted to making up stories about racial discrimination in a recent interview with The New Yorker.
The former Daily Show correspondent said: “Every story in my style is based on a kernel of truth.” “My Arnold Palmer comedy is 70 percent emotional truth and 30 percent exaggeration, exaggeration and fiction.”
“Real Time” show Bill Maher concluded his Friday night show by denouncing comedian Hasan Minhaj for admitting to telling made-up stories
Maher took apart each of Minhaj’s inventions. When justifying his lies, Minhaj said: “The emotional truth comes first.” “The factual truth is secondary.”
He once told a story about how he stopped at a white girl’s door when he went to pick her up for her homecoming dance.
The unidentified woman in the sob story said the incident never happened. She clarified that she had rejected her close friend days before the dance.
The woman also said that she and her family have been subjected to online threats and doxxing for years because Minhaj failed to adequately conceal her identity and revealed that she was engaged to an Indian-American man at the time.
Minhaj claimed that a man named Brother Eric, real name Cory Monteilh, had “infiltrated” his local mosque. Monteilh said that was completely false.
Monteilh said he was in prison in 2002 and only began working on counterterrorism operations for the FBI in 2006.
Minhaj admitted to making up stories about racial discrimination in a recent interview with The New Yorker.
The former Daily Show correspondent said his comedy recipe is 70 percent emotional truth and 30 percent exaggeration, exaggeration and fiction
Jussie Smollett, the former “Empire” actor, was convicted of staging a racist, homophobic attack on himself in 2019 and then lying about it to Chicago police
“The stories that Mr. Minhaj tells in his act to inspire compassion for himself as a Muslim and a person of color are completely fabricated,” Maher said.
“If you want to speak truth to power, I’m going to go out on a limb here and say you have to include the truth part.”
One of his most outrageous claims was that a suspicious white powder fell on his daughter when he opened a letter.
Minhaj admitted to the magazine that his daughter had never been exposed to white powder. The truth is that he opened a letter that contained some kind of powder and joked that it could be anthrax.
Maher’s call became personal when he mentioned false allegations that Minhaj had made about him.
“Because he’s done this to me before and accused me of saying Muslims should be put in internment camps – something I’ve never thought of, let alone said,” the “Real Time” host said.
Maher said: “This dangerous idea that has taken root in America, that something is true just because you want to believe it is true, needs to go.” When the right does this, we call them conspiracy theories, and rightly so . When the left does it, we call it “emotional truth”
Things started personal when Maher exposed lies that Minhaj had previously said about himself. He said Minhaj accused him of saying Muslims should be put in internment camps
“I think younger generations have a real problem with wanting to build their identity on victimhood.”
“They want to fight racism, not fight racism, fight racism so badly that they make it up when it’s not there. “And there’s enough real racism in the world that inventing more doesn’t help,” Maher said .
Maher criticized Minhaj for having a victim complex and for turning into a victim complex to the point where he was not exposed to the oppression he allegedly faced.
“He seems to feel literally betrayed by progress, the progress that has denied him any good story about man’s oppression. “Dude, America is far from the worst,” he said.
“You are a Muslim married to a Hindu. If you lived in India, she would have to murder you.”
“If people don’t like you now, it’s probably not because you’re a person of color.” “It’s because you’re shady,” he said.