Comedian Bill Burr tore into the “treasonous” media and billionaire “puppeteers” who he says are profiting off the nation’s political division in a no-nonsense interview that also slammed those who try to paint him into one political corner.
In an interview published Friday with Vulture, Burr called CNN and Fox News “a fucking disease” and accused those with the most power in the U.S. of “leading by dividing,” which he warned could tear the country apart if left unchecked.
“My worldview is apolitical and it’s trying to bring people together. I’m trying to do the opposite of what’s going on out there because this is feeling like we’re going to have a civil war if we’re not careful,” he said. “When I was growing up, everybody hated the Russians; now, people hate California or Florida or New York or Texas. And it’s like, ‘Guys, you’re on the same team.’”
It’s a topic that Burr has repeatedly brought up on his “Monday Morning Podcast,” while laying into both the Republican and Democratic parties and their fervent supporters, which he said some people wrongly like to assume he has a chosen loyalty to by cherry-picking and overanalyzing his jokes.
He pointed to Ben Shapiro as one example, with the conservative podcaster writing an opinion piece back in December that accused Burr of “going full asshole” and “woke” for criticizing “selfish” and “greedy” CEOs following the shooting death of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO.
