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Bill Maher Defends the Fourth of July From His Own Side — And He's Not Wrong

Bill Maher, the man who built an entire career mocking Republicans on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher," just went on a full-throated rant defending the Fourth of July from artists boycotting America's 250th birthday celebrations. When you've lost the guy who once made a documentary called "Religulous" on the question of whether America is worth celebrating, your side has officially gone off the deep end.

Let that marinate for a second. Bill Maher is now more pro-America than most of Hollywood.

The rant came in response to a wave of performers pulling out of the Freedom 250 concert and other July 4th celebrations. According to American Wire News, Maher didn't mince words: "They all pulled out." He warned his fellow liberals that the optics are catastrophic. "It looks like you are just what people say about you; you don't really love America," Maher said. Then he twisted the knife: "It looks like you think Trump is more important than the country itself."

Now that's a quote we'd normally hear from someone on our side. But Maher isn't switching teams — he's just smart enough to see the political suicide happening in real time.

Democratic Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut tried to spin the whole mess, claiming there "was a nonpartisan, apolitical effort to celebrate America's 250th anniversary" before the Trump administration allegedly hijacked it, "essentially shutting down the citizens who were leading it and turning it into a big MAGA event." Translation: we wanted to control the party and when we couldn't, we took our ball and went home.

Maher wasn't buying it. "Now it's just a big MAGA rally, this whole thing," he acknowledged, before asking the obvious question: "Wouldn't it have been better to play this gig?" In other words, if you're worried about Trump owning the celebration of America's birthday, maybe don't hand it to him on a silver platter by refusing to show up.

President Trump, for his part, seemed perfectly fine with the boycott. "We don't want singers with no talent, but big fees to put you to sleep, we've told them all to stay home," Trump posted. "All we want is you, me, a few speakers, and the Greatest Music ever played, the same Music you have listened to for years!" The Freedom 250 concert will still feature the US Army Band, the Armed Forces Choir, the US Marine Band, and the Joint Armed Forces Chorus. Not exactly a shortage of talent.

Performer Lee Greenwood is also scheduled to appear, because of course he is. The man who wrote "God Bless the U.S.A." isn't going to boycott America's birthday. Funny how that works.

This is the corner the left has painted itself into. They're so consumed by opposition to Trump that they've made celebrating America a partisan act. Maher sees it. Most Democratic voters probably see it. But the Hollywood activist class and their friends in Congress would rather sit out the Fourth of July than risk being seen at an event where someone might wear a red hat.

Maher's right about one thing: it doesn't look good. It looks exactly like what people have been saying about the left for years — that they love the idea of America only when they're in charge of it.

Happy 250th, everybody. Even the boycotters.

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