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HBO “Real Time” host Bill Maher challenged CNN host Kaitlin Collins over her network’s fawning coverage of Vice President Kamala Harris’ Democratic National Convention acceptance speech last week while adding that the network appears to most American cable news consumers as being overwhelmingly left-leaning.

Maher began the segment by noting a viral moment from an appearance by Collins on the “Late Show with Stephen Colbert” after the host suggested that CNN is fair to both sides of the political aisle.

“He [Colbert] said something like, ‘You guys at CNN just report the news,’ and the crowd burst into laughter,” Maher recalled. “That tells you a lot, doesn’t it?”

Collins, unsurprisingly, offered up a strong defense of her employer. “CNN is the place where both sides can watch, and I think my show is evidence of that. We have lawmakers on from both the parties. We’ll have Elizabeth Warren on one night, and we’ll have Ted Cruz on another night. I think lawmakers from both parties should take questions, and you should push both of them,” she said.

“I’m talking about the people on CNN and I know what the conservative side of America thinks and I don’t blame them. I watched Kamala’s speech last night. It ended at 8:09 or, I guess, 11:09 in the east. It wasn’t until 11:23 until the one conservative guy, what’s his name?” he said, referring to former George W. Bush staffer and CNN contributor Scott Jennings. “Lonely Scott, I call him,” Maher said to audience laughter.

“From 8:09 to 11:23, they were just gushing about how great a speech [Kamala Harris delivered at the convention]. And I think she did fine, I didn’t think it was as good as they were making it out to be,” Maher said. “But if I’m a conservative in America and I’m watching CNN just for the straight middle of the road, that’s what I hear for 15 minutes, that it’s great. And then lonely Scott. When you look at the panel, it does look like tokenism. It’s almost the same as ‘The View.’ It’s almost better to have nobody there like MSNBC.”

Again Collins defended her network and her show, saying it’s her job to call “bullshit” on both sides.

“Look, I’m from Alabama,” she said. “I’m from a very red state, I have a very conservative family, and a lot of them are Trump voters. They watch my show every night, and they know that they can trust me, that we call bullshit on every side.”

Collins, years before she became CNN’s “it” girl, held far different views about the media and President Donald Trump. Collins previously worked at the right-leaning Daily Caller during the period when founder and now-former Fox News star Tucker Carlson was leading the organization.

In March 2017, Collins provided an alternative viewpoint on the Trump White House during an interview on “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” just two months into Trump’s presidency.

“The press is throwing a royal tantrum because they can’t control what the country is talking about. For the last eight years, they’ve all decided what the question should be, and they’ve all gone in there and asked the same question. And now that they’re not being called on, they can’t control what the news is about, and it’s driving them crazy,” she said.

She added that the media were a “little hysterical” because they were being criticized by the then-president, who often referred to them as “fake news.”

“But what president has not hated the press? We make their lives harder, and they all hate us. They may not all talk about it, but they definitely hate us. So, but people are taking it really personally. And you shouldn’t take the president’s criticism personally. It shouldn’t affect your reporting,” she said then.

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