CV NEWS FEED // Comedian Bill Maher called out the entertainment industry for sexualizing children and hiring known pedophiles in a clip that has since gone viral over the past few days.
“As one of the few people in the public eye who has gone through life and never had kids, someone has to tell me why am I always having to defend them,” Maher said on an episode of his HBO show Real Time with Bill Maher which aired Friday.
“I don’t even like kids,” he added. “But I also think it’s every adult’s job to protect them.”
“Have you all been watching the Max documentary called ‘Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV?’” he asked his viewer. “It’s just scene after scene, clip after clip of the child stars of their day being subjected to obviously inappropriate highly sexualized degradation.”
“I don’t know if this documentary is the talk of your town but it is out here,” Maher continued, referring to Los Angeles. “Because it didn’t just expose a dangerous workplace, it also exposed hypocrisy.”
“It must be pointed out that when the ‘evil’ governor of Florida [Republican Ron DeSantis] was saying the exact same thing about kids and creepy stuff at Disney – that liberals now find intolerable at Nickelodeon, he was dismissed as a ‘hick’ and a ‘bigot,’” the host emphasized.
“Why would a kid’s content factory at Disney be all that different from the one at Nickelodeon?” Maher asked.
He went on to cite stats and testimony from former Disney child stars:
A 2014 CNN report discovered that at least 35 Disney employees had been arrested for sex crimes against children and in 2021 Disney child star Alyson Stoner confessed she only narrowly survived the toddler-to-trainwreck pipeline. The next year child star Cole Sprouse told The New York Times that young actresses at the Disney Channel were heavily sexualized at an early age.
“DeSantis wasn’t wrong,” Maher stressed. “But we’re so tribal now the left will overlook child [abuse] if the guy from the wrong party calls it out.”
“And get this,” Maher added. “After Brian Peck who was one of the lead creeps at Nickelodeon served 16 months in prison for the molesting he did there, Disney hired him, naturally, to work on a children’s series.”
“For pedophiles in Hollywood, it’s a small world after all,” he stated.
“And not just Hollywood,” the host continued. “There are Instagram moms these days who are practically OnlyFans-ing their itty bitty beauty queen daughters by having them wear skimpy bikinis and eat bananas to build social media stardom.”
“They’re called ‘Sharenters,’ a hybrid of ‘sharing’ and ‘parent,’” Maher noted. “I call them pimps.”
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The comedian went on to satirize the hypocrisy on surrounding child exploitation that is prevalent on the left:
People who believe in social justice have agreed this is wrong and this is bad and exposing kids to an adult world of lurid costumes and garish makeup borders on abuse.
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“When I see a five-year-old tipping … at a bar under a sign that says ‘it’s not gonna lick itself,’ do I have to pretend that’s cool in order to keep my liberal ID card?” Maher asked.
“Sorry, I can’t do that,” he answered his own question.
“I’ve said it before,” Maher stated. “‘Wokeness’ is not an extension of liberalism anymore. It’s more often taking something so far that it becomes the opposite.”
“At a certain point inclusion becomes promotion,” he warned.
He added that young impressionable children “don’t have any frame of reference so they normalize whatever’s happening.”
“That’s why endlessly talking about gender to six-year-olds isn’t just inappropriate,” Maher described. “It’s what the law would call ‘entrapment’ – which means enticing people into doing something they wouldn’t ordinarily do.”
Comedian Tim Young praised Maher on X (formerly Twitter), writing, “We all might disagree on many things politically, but everyone should agree with you on this.”
Conservative author Melissa Tate agreed. “Thank you Bill for speaking out,” she wrote.
“[It] probably took a lot of courage on your part to come out [and] say this against fellow ‘liberals’ in your industry,” Tate added. “It’s time for other rational liberals to have same courage [and] call out the utter insanity we are seeing from the left before it’s too late to save civilization.”
An X user called Maher “one of the few public figures on the American left with any remaining integrity.”
Another user on the platform replied to Maher, “I never thought I’d say this, sir, but you’re a hero.”
Maher’s comments on Hollywood come one week after he made similarly viral remarks on his show, stating: “[abortion] kind of is [murder]. I’m just OK with that.”
The host’s remarks elicited silence from his pro-abortion guests and live studio audience.
“Is that not your position if you’re pro-choice?” Maher asked.
Many observers at the time indicated that Maher “said the quiet part out loud.”