Bill Maher Gets Defensive With WaPo’s Rogin Over Trump Meetup: ‘You Don’t Have to Patronize Me, Dude!’

EXCERPT:

ROGIN: “So, I’m not questioning your motivation, I’m questioning Trump’s, okay? And if we can say that you went there in good faith, but maybe, just maybe he wasn’t there in good faith, I mean, you sold him on the Iran deal and he took it in? Give me a break, okay? So the idea here is that your motivation is sound, but what’s the impact? And I think a lot of people out there, fans of yours, people who love you, people who are fans of you, like me — “

MAHER: “You don’t have to patronize me, dude!”

ROGIN: “Okay. Fair enough.”

MAHER: “I don’t know you, I never met you. Not everybody has to like it."

ROGIN: “I’m just saying that this comes from a place of love. All I’m saying — “

MAHER: “That’s what we said, there are people who didn’t want it to happen at all, you sound like one of them. It’s okay.”

ROGIN: “No, no, I’m — “

MAHER: “Did you hear what I said?”

ROGIN: “Yeah.”

MAHER: “Like, what is the alternative to not talking? Just sitting at your lunch table and don’t talk to anybody?”

(via Mediaite)