Bill Maher closed his Friday night show ripping into comedian Hasan Minhaj for admitting to telling fabricated stories, that Minhaj called ’emotional truths.’
‘Hasan Minhaj, the comedian who answers the question, ‘What if Jussie Smollett did stand-up?”’ said the ‘Real Time’ host.
‘This dangerous idea that has taken root in America that something is true merely because you want to believe it’s true has got to go. When the right does this, we call it conspiracy theories, and rightly so. When the left does it, we call it “emotional truth.”’
Minhaj, in a recent New Yorker interview, admitted to making up stories of racial discrimination.
The former Daily Show correspondent said: ‘Every story in my style is built around a seed of truth. My comedy Arnold Palmer is 70 percent emotional truth and then 30 percent hyperbole, exaggeration, fiction.’
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‘Real Time’ show Bill Maher closed his Friday night show ripping into comedian Hasan Minhaj for admitting to telling fabricated stories
Maher picked apart each of Minhaj’s fabrications. When justifying his lies Minhaj said, ‘the emotional truth is first. The factual truth is secondary.’
He once shared a story about how he was left standing at a white girl’s door when he went to pick her up for their homecoming dance.
The unidentified woman in the sob story said that the incident never even happened. She clarified she had turned her close friend down days before the dance.
The woman also said she and her family had been facing online threats and doxing for years because Minhaj had failed to adequately disguise her identity and revealed she was engaged to an Indian American man at the time.
Minhaj claimed a man named Brother Eric, whose real name is Cory Monteilh, ‘infiltrated’ his local mosque. Monteilh, said that is completely false.
Monteilh said he was in prison in 2002 and didn’t begin to work for the FBI on counterterrorism measures until 2006.
Minhaj, in a recent New Yorker interview, admitted to making up stories of racial discrimination.
The former Daily Show correspondent said his comedy recipe is 70 percent emotional truth and then 30 percent hyperbole, exaggeration, fiction
Jussie Smollett, the former ‘Empire’ actor, was convicted for staging a racist, homophobic attack against himself in 2019 and then lying about it to Chicago police
‘The stories Mr. Minhaj tells in his act to elicit sympathy for himself as a Muslim and a person of color are completely made up,’ said Maher.
‘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 egregious claims was that a suspicious white powder fell on his daughter while he opened up a letter.
Minhaj admitted to the magazine his daughter had never been exposed to a white powder. The truth is that he opened a letter that contained some sort of powder and joked that it could be anthrax.
Maher’s call out became personal when he mentioned false accusations Minhaj has said about him.
‘Because he’s done this before with me, accusing me of saying Muslims should be put in internment camps—something I’ve never come close to thinking, let alone saying,’ said the ‘Real Time’ host.
Maher said: ‘This dangerous idea that has taken root in America that something is true merely because you want to believe it’s true has got to go. When the right does this, we call it conspiracy theories, and rightly so. When the left does it, we call it “emotional truth”’
Things began personal when Maher called out lies Minhaj had previously said about himself. He said Minhaj has accused him of saying Muslims should be put in internment camps
‘I think the younger generations have a real problem with wanting to build their identity around being a victim.
‘They want to have racism to fight, not fight racism, have racism to fight so badly that when it’s not there, they make it up. And there’s enough real racism in the world that making up more doesn’t help,’ Maher said.
Maher called out Minhaj for having a victim complex and turning himself into one enough he has not faced the oppression he claimed to.
‘He seems to literally feel cheated by progress, the progress that has denied him any good stories about being oppressed by the man. Dude, America is far from the worst,’ he said.
‘You’re a Muslim married to a Hindu. If you were living in India, she’d 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.