Comedian Patton Oswalt criticized "Real Time" host Bill Maher this week over what he described as Maher’s attempts to "placate" President Donald Trump, arguing the comedian was wrong to believe he could find common ground with Trump without eventually becoming a target himself. "The reason that Trump is turning on Bill Maher is because Bill tried to, I’m sure with good intentions, placate him and you can’t do that with him," Oswalt told SiriusXM host Dean Obeidallah , contrasting Maher's approach to notoriously anti-Trump hosts like Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert. "Colbert and Kimmel... Trump hates them, but he hates them because they don’t love him. He wants them to love him, and then the minute they love him, he has zero respect for them because, deep down, he hates himself," he resumed. "You just have to stick with your guns and just go, 'Yeah, this guy sucks.' In the long run, it will pay out, and anyone who does business ...
An Indiana sheriff’s deputy was shot three times Friday morning in a hospital emergency room by a stranded motorist he had stopped to help and later learned might be connected to an earlier crime, authorities said. La Porte County Sheriff's Deputy Jon Samuelson, a 12-year veteran of the force, was airlifted to South Bend Memorial Hospital and remains in critical condition. The alleged gunman, Sharod Grafton Jr., was arrested in the woods near the hospital minutes after the shooting. Samuelson, 33, was driving to a training session around 6:45 a.m. when he stopped to help a stranded motorist, Grafton, on State Road 2, authorities said. At some point the deputy took Grafton, a Chicago resident, to Franciscan Hospital in Michigan City at his request, police said. NORTH CAROLINA POLICE OFFICER KILLED IN LINE OF DUTY DURING EMERGENCY ROOM SHOOTING INCIDENT "Once at the hospital, the officer learned that the subject may have been involved in an earlier criminal incident," Ind...