INSIDER: Bill Maher on MSNBC’s softball Kamala interview: ‘Expected them NOT to be rubbing her feet’

Despite witnessing the shill firsthand, HBO’s Bill Maher claimed even he couldn’t believe the treatment Vice President Kamala Harris got from a recent guest.

Though frequently flirting with ideas outside the corporate media narrative, the host of “Real Time with Bill Maher” remained squarely in the Democratic Party’s camp as far as the race for the White House was concerned. That didn’t stop him from ribbing the basement campaign or the likes of MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle for facilitating it by “rubbing her feet.”

During Friday’s opening monologue, the comedian followed a dig at the “border czar’s” visit to Arizona with a slam over interviews as he expressed, “There’s been a lot of pressure on her. She doesn’t do interviews. She doesn’t answer questions. So she sat for an interview. She said, okay, I will answer your hardball questions.”

“She went on MSNBC,” said Maher to laughter before adding, “Okay, all right, I wasn’t, you know, they were not hardball questions, but I still expected not them to be rubbing her feet.”

NEW: Bill Maher says he “expected MSNBC not to be rubbing Kamala Harris’ feet” during her softball interview

“There’s been a lot of pressure on her. She doesn’t do interviews. She doesn’t answer questions. So she sat for an interview. She said, okay, I will answer your hardball… pic.twitter.com/lxWZRRHsd7

— Unlimited L’s (@unlimited_ls) September 28, 2024

During the previous installment of “Real Time,” Ruhle had defended Harris after the host had suggested the vice president and like-minded figures “Just shut up” about the Middle East for failing to address the actual problem with Islamism.

Fellow guest The New York Times columnist Bret Stephens had wondered of Harris, “Is she just being vague because the political equities are such that it doesn’t pay to be specific, or does she simply have no idea and you know, I am an undecided vote-”

“That’s not an honest question to me,” interrupted Ruhle, “because there’s no way you think I’m gonna turn and go, ‘You know, Bret, you’re right. She has no idea.”

Turning up the sycophancy, the MSNBC host had said, “Kamala Harris is not running for perfect. She’s running against [former President Donald] Trump. We have two choices. And so there are some things you might not know her answer to. And in 2024, unlike 2016 for a lot of the American people, we know exactly what Trump will do, who he is, and the kind of threat he is to democracy.”

Closing the loop on her contribution to the Harris for President campaign, Ruhle went on to defend the vice president’s non-answers to her softball questions when she told the talking heads of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” “It’s hard because many people feel like she’s just speaking in platitudes, she’s speaking about an economic vision and she’s not giving details.”

“She’s got an 80-page detailed policy proposal, and do I think that she answers every single question and gives people exactly what she wants? She doesn’t. You know why?” she posited before providing her take, “Because she’s a politician, and none of them do. They all speak in platitudes.”

As for Maher’s supposed surprise, social media wasn’t buying what he was selling.

Not sure why he was surprised? Ruhle was just on his show defending Harris not taking questions from the media.

— Derrick Smith (@1ImperialStout) September 28, 2024

Yes, Bill.
It was oh so shocking

FFS this coward of a woman will never face a hard question because she can’t even handle the set-ups

— m/-=3Đ∇サ=-m/ (@CargoShortLife) September 28, 2024

He should have expected it pic.twitter.com/JNaHUjPqaZ

— Rapidsloth (@Rapidsloth_) September 28, 2024