Bill Maher’s ‘Real Time’ Questions The Paths Taken By Disney, TLC, A&E, And The History Channel
deadline.comThe Walt Disney Co. and CEO Bob Chapek are under fire for their perceived slow reaction to the “Don’t Say Gay” bill that recently passed the Florida Senate.
It now heads to Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is likely to sign it into law.The fallout from that legislation touched Hollywood this week, as Disney employees lashed out at the company’s initial hesitation to get involved.We live in a world where corporations now have to take sides, Bill Maher noted during his Real Time conversation Friday night on HBO.
He posed the question about whether inserting themselves into politics and social issues is a good thing to panelists Kristen Soltis Anderson, the pollster and founding partner at Echelon Insights, and Max Brooks, the author of World War Z and a senior resident dellow at the Atlantic Council, a nonresident fellow at the Modern War Institute at West Point, and host of Max Brooks Breaks Down on YouTube. .“In most cases, no,” said Soltis Anderson, who noted that ten years ago, leftists would have been against corporate activism, and are now the ones calling for it.
However, she said, “Disney does sell values,” and is tied closer to that than the average company.Brooks said anyone who makes money takes a stand.
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