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Bill Maher got the award, but Trump’s free-speech impact is the real prize

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Bill Maher is the perfect liberal, at least on paper — yet despite his talk shows being nominated for Emmy awards more than 40 times, it’s only in Donald Trump’s Washington that Maher finally gets the recognition he craves.

He’s now the 27th recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, an award first won by the late, legendary Richard Pryor in 1998 and last year given to Conan O’Brien.

Not every recipient has been politically left-wing, but Maher stands out as a rare left-leaning comic who dares criticize his own tribe — and he’s paid a price for it. 

Liberals like Maher might not like Donald Trump or the stamp he’s placed on the Kennedy Center, which awards the Twain Prize.

But in Trump’s Washington, a rebel like Maher can be given his due — which can’t be said in precincts that cultural liberals control. 

Maher certainly checks the boxes of a good left-liberal.

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He’s a street-corner atheist; a male feminist who’s a 70-year-old bachelor with an endless succession of younger girlfriends; he’s a pothead — and pot........

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