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Comedian Bill Maher tore into BuzzFeed and HuffPost on his podcast "Club Random" on Monday during an interview with Byron Allen, who owns both publications, calling them "peak woke."
Allen said he recently purchased BuzzFeed and noted he owns HuffPost as well.
"All these places have been horrible to me," Maher said, naming HuffPost specifically. "Once Arianna [Huffington] left and it became like the most woke."
Allen invested $120 million into BuzzFeed and is the new CEO of the company, Variety reported in May. BuzzFeed acquired HuffPost in 2020.
After some back and forth, Maher said that HuffPost came down hard on him over the years.
"That's what I hate about the left. The purity. And that's what HuffPost, I'm like — I'm worse than like the Republicans because I'm not pure with their — and a lot of what they believe, of course, is silly, insane revolutionary, garbage from people who don't know facts or history or perspective. But that's okay. I don't have grudges against, I don't even read it," he said.
He then said both HuffPost and BuzzFeed were full of millennial nepo babies.
"All these places are a bunch of snarky f---ing millennial, probably Nepo babies. I mean, I just know how these kids, who have these jobs, how much they were indoctrinated before they got there and they are not America. So I don't know, you don't read your own publications?" Maher said.
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Allen said he's been there two to three weeks, and said he does read his publications.
"Like I said, I'm there two or three weeks. At the end of the day, I do read it. And what I find is that, you know, there's that spectrum," he said, explaining that he learned from Al Masini, who created "Entertainment Tonight," not to get "caught up."
HuffPost came under fire earlier this year over an article posted to social media about feeling discomfort rooting for the USA in the Olympics.
The article, which was titled, "There's a Name for the Discomfort You're Feeling Watching the Olympics Right Now," was posted on X.
"If waving the American flag or chanting 'USA!' turns you off right now, you're not alone," said the caption, with a link to the article.
"While President Donald Trump’s deportation agenda separates families, and federal agents detain 5-year-olds and kill unarmed civilians, American athletes are winning medals on behalf of the nation at the Olympics right now," the February piece read. "This whiplash between pride for United States competitors and national shame for the federal government is common."
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HuffPost pointed to Olympians who expressed disdain for the current government in reaction to recent events, such as the killing of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.
For example, Hunter Hess, an Olympic skier, said, "There’s obviously a lot going on that I’m not the biggest fan of. Wearing the flag doesn’t mean I represent everything going on in the U.S."
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