Popular political host Bill Maher doesn’t get why everyone is so upset about Harrison Butker’s controversial speech.
The Kansas City Chiefs kicker gave a commencement speech at Benedictine College in Kansas last month. He took shots at Pride Month, the transgender community and had some controversial advice for women.
“I think it is you, the women, who have had the most diabolic lies told to you,” Butker said. “Some of you may go on to lead successful careers in the world, but I would venture to guess that the majority of you are most excited about your marriage and the children you will bring into this world. I can tell you that my beautiful wife Isabelle would be the first to say her life truly started when she started living her vocation as a wife and as a mother.”
Maher, a liberal, doesn’t seem to get the controversy.
“I don’t get the thing he said, talking to women, ‘Some of you may go on to lead successful careers in the world.’ OK, that seems fairly modern,” Maher said, reading Butker’s speech. “‘But I would venture to guess that the majority of you are most excited about your marriage and the children you will bring into this world.’ I don’t see what the big crime is, I really don’t.”
He added: “I think this is part of the problem people have with the left, is that lots of people in this country are like this. Like he’s saying some of you may go on to successful careers, but a lot of you are excited about this other way that people, everybody used to be and now can. Can’t that just be a choice too? And I feel like they feel very put upon like there’s only one way to be a good person and that’s to get an advanced degree from one of those asphalt factories like Harvard.”
Butker, who has been with the Chiefs since 2017, is one of the best kickers in the league, but he’s become more of a household name following his commencement speech controversy.
While Butker has taken heat from many for his comments, he’s received some support from those on the left, too.
