CNN Republican Torches Larry David’s ‘Dinner With Hitler’ Column Attacking Bill Maher

CNN Republican commentator Scott Jennings laid into comedian Larry David (“Curb Your Enthusiasm”) during a recent panel discussion, arguing that he was using his platform to shut down political discourse and bully other Democrats into silence.

Jennings referenced a recent op-ed David wrote — in which he suggested that comedian Bill Maher having dinner with President Donald Trump was no different than having dinner with Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler — and argued that David’s goal was not so much to shame Maher as it was to issue a warning to anyone who might have considered meeting with Trump in the future.

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“The message of this is not to — because Bill Maher, first of all, I totally agree, he’s totally in the right to do it,” Jennings began, saying that while he certainly disagreed with Maher on a wide range of political issues, he felt the HBO host was right to encourage dialogue with people who have different political views. “I loved his monologue, even thought I disagree with almost everything he believes politically, he ws right to do this and he was right to speak out about it.”

“But this isn’t about that dinner. It’s about the next one,” Jennings continued. “Because this is the modern Left. It’s an attempt always to intimidate people into not ever doing it again. It’s to silence yourselves, or we’ll do it for you. That’s the purpose of this op-ed, so that the next comedian, or the next person on the American left chooses not to speak to Donald Trump.”

“This isn’t — this is all an effort to get people not to do what you just said, which is to talk to each other and our political leaders,” he concluded.

Maher met with Trump at the behest of mutual friend Kid Rock, and later delivered a monologue describing just how different the president had been in person than he was on the public stage. The comedian did not hold back the criticism, however, and argued that he’d prefer to see the private version of Trump take on the public-facing role.