Bill Maher And Senator Ted Cruz Find Some Uncommon Ground In ‘Real Time’ Debate

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Oil and water. Oscar and Felix. Entering tonight’s Real Time, you’d expect Sen. Ted Cruz and Bill Maher to fit into that “don’t mix” category.

You’d be wrong, for the most part. Although they sparred at times, the two political opposites found that they were often on the same page.

Cruz is out supporting his new book, Unwoke: How to Defeat Cultural Marxism in America, and surprisingly admitted his admiration for the “old-school liberal” Maher, who Cruz said was “funny as hell” and “believes in free speech.” “I actually appreciate what you do,” Cruz said, adding he has retweeted some of Maher’s monologues.

Maher seemed taken aback. “I feel realky bad about the jokes I did about you,” he said. He acknowledged he is often accused of slowly getting more conservative, basically because he refuses to “bend the knee” to the more “crazy train” ideas of the left.