I was watching the interview that Bill Maher did with Dan Crenshaw. You know Dan Crenshaw, and if you know who Dan Crenshaw is, you know that he's probably one of the better communicators on the right, probably in the top five or so. You put him in there with Matt Gaetz and Tucker Carlson and a few other people. So less light, much less light, would be much better anyway.

If you watch the interview, it's going around the internet, and people were saying that Crenshaw dismantled Bill Maher and everything. But here's what I saw. Now of course I can't read minds, but here's some speculation, and you can decide how close this sounds to you. Does this seem reasonable to you?

Bill Maher probably hears a lot of arguments that agree with the left. He probably hears them all the time. But I'll bet he doesn't hear many good arguments from the right. He probably hears the one pundit that CNN allows to be on their air every ten minutes or every ten days or something. And he probably samples a little bit of the stuff that clips and League quotes taken out of context and stuff. But I'll bet that Bill Maher, and this is just speculation through no fault of his own, probably has a gigantic blind spot for what the good arguments are on the right.

I've noticed this a few times. It doesn't ever seem as though Bill Maher is disagreeing with the best arguments on the right. But of course he's disagreeing with the dumb ones that don't make any sense. And the reason I'm somewhat more fascinated with Bill Maher is I've been watching him for years and I know that he is capable of changing his mind under the right circumstances, so long as there's a good argument and some data.

If you've watched him forever, you know that he's fair to people on both the left and the right. He can be maddeningly frustrating because he doesn't just automatically agree with one team. And so everybody finds some reason to be mad at one thing or another.

Here's what I saw, and I think that Bill Maher got a little flavor of this one. I was on his show back in 2016 I guess. And it goes like this. I think that when Dan Crenshaw started talking, it looked like you could see in Bill's face that he was learning for the first time that there's another curtain behind the curtain.

In other words, somebody as tuned in as Bill Maher can not only see the show that everybody sees, the one that's in public, but he's one of the few people who can look behind the curtain. And I think he thought that if he could see the show and that he could also look behind the curtain, that's all there is to see.

And I feel as if what I was watching, and again this requires a lot of speculation and assumption on my part, but it felt like what I was seeing was that Bill Maher was learning from Dan Crenshaw's better communicating that there was a curtain behind the curtain. That there might be a whole bunch of stuff, who knows how big, might be a little, might be a lot. But it was like Bill was for the first time hearing something that made sense that was coming from the other team. And I think it made him think, is there something here?

Now if it had been anybody else they would just be dismissing it because it's just team sport. But what makes somebody like a Bill Maher, and I would say Sam Harris would be in the same category even if you don't agree I think he is, is people who can change their mind. They just have to hear a better argument, see facts to support it.

So that was fascinating.