Bill Maher Checks Ben Shapiro For Stating Kirk Shooter Was Leftist: 'We Don't Know S**t'

Maher garnered applause Friday for catching his conservative guest using definitive rhetoric before admitting he wasn't "sure."

“Real Time” host Bill Maher on Friday decried the political violence plaguing American life and got into a heated discussion about the death of Charlie Kirk, the right-wing activist fatally shot Wednesday at Utah Valley University, with conservative guest Ben Shapiro.

Maher began by condemning the bipartisan blame game that sprang from Kirk’s killing.

“I think the only way that this starts to get better is if both sides admit, OK, let’s not have this debate about who started it,” he said Friday. “Let’s not have the debate about who’s worse, because plainly both sides do it now — and the right has done it too, a lot.”

Maher went on to read a social media post from a conservative user who cited President Donald Trump’s attempted assassinations, Kirk’s death and the fatal shooting of Ashli Babbit during the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riots to argue “our side hasn’t fired a bullet.”

“Your side has fired a lot of bullets,” Maher said. “And used hammers on [Democrat former House Speaker] Nancy Pelosi’s husband, and used firebombs on the [Pennsylvania’s Democrat] Governor [Josh] Shapiro’s house.”