The popular podcaster was met with wild applause on “Real Time with Bill Maher” Saturday when he accused fellow guest John Heilemann, a political analyst for MSNBC and NBC, of hypocrisy for attacking rival outlets.
“I have to say that it’s disingenuous to claim that the biases that are exhibited on Fox News are any different than the biases exhibited on MSNBC,” Brand, 47, told Heilemann.
“I’ve been on that MSNBC, mate — it was propagandist nut-crackery on there.”
Brand then recalled his 2013 appearance on “Morning Joe,” which previously went viral for Brand’s disbelief at the inanity of the questioning and treating him like an “extraterrestrial” while referring to him as Willy.
“Is this what you all do for a living?” he mocked the interviewers at the time, asking: “What’s wrong with your manners?”
On Saturday, he told Heilemann that “it was absurd the way they carried on.”
“I don’t know what it was — it wasn’t the morning, there was no one called Joe there, no one could concentrate [and] they didn’t understand the basic tenets of journalism,” he said with disbelief.
“I think to sit within the castle of MSNBC throwing rocks at Fox News is ludicrous. Make MSNBC better!”
Heilemann accused the comedian of not having a “single actual fact” because he didn’t “actually know anything about any of these organizations you’re talking about.”
“You’ve been on MSNBC once — big f—ing deal!” he said.
