I doubt it! From NewsBusters, (video available here ):
Maher: What about the people who got onto the Huffington Post – and these weren’t even the bloggers, these were just the comments section – who said they, they expressed regret that the attack on Dick Cheney failed.
Joe Scarborough: Right.
Maher: Now:
John Ridley: More than regret.
Maher: Well, what did they say?
Ridley: They said “We wish he would die.” I mean, it was (?) hate language.
Barney Frank: They said the bomb was wasted. (laughter and applause)
Maher: That’s a funny joke. But, seriously, if this isn’t China, shouldn’t you be able to say that? Why did Arianna Huffington, my girlfriend, I love her, but why did she take that off right away?
After some discussion about why Huffington should or shouldn’t have taken these comments down, the following occurred:
Ridley: It’s one thing to say you hate Dick Cheney, which applies to his politics. It’s another thing to say, “I’m sorry he didn’t die in an explosion.” And I think, you know:
Maher: But you should be able to say it. And by the way…
Frank: Excuse me, Bill, but can I ask you a question? Do you decide what the topics are for this show?
Maher: Yeah, I decide the topics, they don’t go there.
Frank: But you exercise control over the show the way that she does over her blog.
Maher: But I have zero doubt that if Dick Cheney was not in power, people wouldn’t be dying needlessly tomorrow. (applause)
Scarborough: If someone on this panel said that they wished that Dick Cheney had been blown up, and you didn’t say:
Frank: I think he did.
Scarborough: Okay. Did you say:
Maher: No, no. I quoted that.
Frank: You don’t believe that?
Maher: I’m just saying if he did die, other people, more people would live. That’s a fact.
*****Update III: NewsBusters member and blogger Jon Quixote has all the information concerning the kerfuffle at Huffington Post that Maher and the gang were discussing here.
The Moderate is singing a somewhat different tune on Maher:
My opinion on this is, Free Speech is free speech, the same Free speech rights that allows Ann Coulter to run her mouth and call John Edwards a “faggot”, is the same free speech rights that allows Bill Maher to say what he said. So, either deal with it, or turn off the TV. End of Story.
Yet with Ann:
There needs to be an Apology on her part or action taken by the G.O.P.
Anyone can denounce what these two people say, but it is part of their “act” to say what they do…they both have an audience for such ridiculousness, and as long as the demand is there, the outragious behavior will continue.
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34, ryan, you are just an idiot. Sitting down, singing Kumbya is not going to solve problems. You sit there in your private nirvana and expect everyone else to take the same drugs as you do.
You cannot see that people who WILL walk in to your circle with a few pounds of dynamite and a detonator will not accept anything short of either you taking their point of view entirely or blowing you up.
That is a sad fact that you are unwilling to accept. How do work with that? Surrender? Die because you can’t stop singing?
Get real, ryan.
PCD – This is the response I expected. It’s quite unfortunate really.
Rather than to offer an intelligent rebuttal, you attack me personally. Quite hypocritical I might add.
Perhaps you are right. Perhaps the answer is to attack/destroy anything and anyone we THINK may be a potential danger to American ideals. Is this how you would like your country to be viewed? I guess, at least YOU would be safe, right?
This is what I get from your responses, tell me if I’m wrong: You will not hear anything the Left (or anyone opposing your view) has to say because they are just plain wrong.
This is a very unfortunate characterstic in a lot of people, including the Bush Administration. This, by the way, is what got us into the debacle we call Operation Iraqi Freedom. While the rest of the world said, “maybe we shouldn’t topple a government that we don’t agree with and impose our own” The Bush Administration decided (oh thats right, they got bad intelligence from GBR) Iraq had weapons of mass destruction pointed right at us. What did we find?
Picture this: Communist China feels that Democracy no longer works, and therefore, decides to topple the U.S. Government and impose there own. I would like to think that I would put up just as much of a fight.
Continue to live your sheltered life. Continue to fight the Left (and the rest of the world), just because. Continue to hear only your voice. One day you will have the sad realization that the rest of the world has evolved and you are left alone, arguing a mute point.
Singing Kumbaya, as you call it, is simply my way of suggesting that we start working together.
Ryan
Ryan, you are the typical elitist idiot that bad mouths the cops until you need one because a mugger won’t work with you.
You were never looking for anything but complete agreement with your sheltered view. You are a hypocrite in expecting people to cave in to your “superior intellect”. Yes, that arrogance was deftly displayed in the “Wrath of Khan”.
Come back after you experienced the real world. Maybe after you had a Union Education or two.
Ryan,
PCD is an idiot. Don’t waste your time.
AKD, you are just a liberal provocateur.
PCD, your level of intelligence shines clearly in your responses.
BTW, you have yet to offer one valid rebuttal to any of the points I have raised.
Further, I don’t believe you understand the meaning of hypocracy, considering your description.
Sir/Ma’am, you are a lost cause who is consumed by your assumably uneducated, counterproductive ideals.
You offer no helpful suggestions, only bitter personal attacks. This is highly immature and makes me question your self proclaimed achievements.
Ryan,, You’d had better NEVER need my help to save your live. You won’t get it as I consider you a waste. You have no principles and consider giving up everyone’s freedom in this country as something viable.
You just don’t accept anyother point of view, and you have amply demonstrated it with my you bloody hypocrite.
As an interesting experiment, is there anyone else who supports/agrees with PCD’s views, whatever they might be?
I am not interested in proving “my point” as there is nothing to prove. It is simply an observation. I am curious as to how many share this particular view, whatever it may be.
41. PCD, you have just described the contents of every response you’ve set forth on this particular issue. Ultimately, describing yourself to the T. Look back through our sting of correspondence, it is extremely visible.
1. First, you’ve yet to offer your point of view (only attacks). Therefore, I have nothing to accept as of yet.
2. You state that I have no principiles and consider giving up everyones freedom. There is nothing even remotely similar to this observation in any of my responses. I would welcome examples.
Yet again, no intelligent correspondence, just more attacks. There are many of you on both sides of the view who inhibit the progress of not only American politcs, but World politics as well.
You have never had the opportunity of meeting me, and therefore, your description of my personal beliefs & charecteristics have no relavence here.
Come on PCD, lets stop with the mindless attacks and start being productive.
“You’d had better NEVER need my help to save your live. You won’t get it as I consider you a waste.” This is shocking.
-I hope you don’t consider yourself to be Christian. If yes, I would suggest reading the words in red. Those are the words of Christ, and are in complete disagreement with the statement above.
It is amazing to me that when I offer suggestions of coming together as one, and loving each other as equals (which is what we are), you respond with your intentions of witnessing my demise without offering a helping hand becuase you consider me a waste.
You have me perplexed beyond belief.
I hope, for you and your family’s sake, that you recognize the error of your ways before your negativity is instilled onto others.
I took friends to a taping of Jay Leno show in February 2006. Bill Maher and Shawn White(just back with his gold metal win in the olympics)were guest. During a break after Shawn was interviewed, Maher, feeling ignored grabed White’s gold metal and held it up to the audience and said “this looks like a Cock Ring”. No one laughed at this druggie and it showed his disrespect for anything good and mora in Amercia. If the DEA followed this Ass around for a week, they would know a lot about drug use in his circle.
Jim M.
As previously stated, Maher is a bad comedian, and even worse in politics.
I think he just wants attention, either positive or negative. Its all the same for those types.
32- Why does the left hate GWB so much? Well let’s work from 2000 on up to the present time. IMO, they hate him because they lost in 2000 and rather than face the legal reality of the situation, they persist in saying he stole an election…the list goes on and on..they hate because they can hate and they are not willing to entertain any other thought other than death and destruction to him and his administration. Burying our heads and pretending that we can talk out our differences with terrorists is naive and just plain stupid. This country ignored all the warnings for too long and we have paid a price and will continue to do so.
The hypocricy of the left saying we should get out of Iraq, yet go into Darfur? What, to fight another branch of the terrorists we are fighting in Iraq? Crazy..
Believe it or not, every problem in the world is not the fault of Bush..he is easy to blame, but kinda stupid to listen to the rhetoric….
Let’s look at Walter Reed..to listen to people, this too is all/only GWB’s fault. Well, he has been in office for 6 years and it is now finally being addressed, but my father is 73, and he didn’t hear anything new that he hadn’t heard all his life…yet we have CLAIRE MCCASKILL (D-MO)trotting out with legislation and making this claim:
MR. MATTHEWS: We begin tonight with Senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri.
Senator McCaskill, when did you learn about the horror stories over at Walter Reed and the way our guys with amputated legs and arms and everything else are being treated over there?
SEN. MCCASKILL: I was actually in Washington Sunday morning, because we’d been there for the vote on Saturday afternoon, and read the paper and physically felt ill. And, you know, I don’t think Americans should be distracted by this story that came out today about somebody in charge of fund-raising. …
Found out on a Sunday huh? Yet when she was on O’Reilly last week, she still hadn’t made it there, she sent an aide…and that is the problem…it is the job of our elected representatives to know what is going on…They appropriate the money and should have started taking care of the problem oh, say maybe 70 years ago!
(It is beyond the time for term limits and age limits on these people!)
So Ryan, I would say that there are legitimate gripes about Bush and Co., but to justify someone calling for any of their deaths is just silly…. Sometimes all it takes is to listen and that is something that I find lacking in this country..
Peejz,
Thank you for your enlightning response. It is very much appreciated.
As stated previously, I would consider myself an Independent, for many reasons (which I won’t go into at this time). I would like to think of myself as a practical thinker, and therefore, would certainly never entertain such hateful and useless comments.
When I do hear comments such as which were reiterated by Bill Maher (which it seems many share), I want to understand why these individuals feel so strongly. This is what I feel is important. To actually hear out the other side (this goes for everyone), and not close our minds because we assume right off that bat all they want to do is spin.
I know its a tall order, but we have to start somewhere.
Again, thank you for taking the time to respond.
Ryan
No problem Ryan:wink:
Ryan,
Before you go off to your blind nirvana, consider others who sat down and tried to understand the terrorists. In the archives here there are links to Mr’Kim and others getting their heads sawed off. I know you are blind to those outcomes, but you are blind to evetything else but Bush hatred being your answer to problems.
Bill Maher is another little turd that should have been flushed long ago. I couldn’t care less why he shoots his mouth off, why he would make such an outrageous statement. He is just a pos, that’s reason enough.
PCD,
Unfortunately, you continue to miss my point. I will try (for the last time) to make it clear.
Take a deep breath, no one is attacking you or your views:
1. I do not hate our President and/or Vice President. However, I am not impressed with their inability to answer straight forward questions posed by the American public (you know, the people who voted him into office).
2. I do not support terrorists or their radical views. I realize that these individuals are criminally insane and cannot be reasoned with.
3. I am not in a “blind nirvana.” What I am doing is making helpful suggestions that we must try to work together to solve this terrorist problem. I understand that terrorists do not want to listen (we cannot work with these people). HOWEVER, as for the rest of us, practical, reasonable thinkers -WE NEED TO WORK TOGETHER DESPITE OUR DIFFERENCES.
I understand that you wish to go through life pointing fingers and placing blame on opposing viewpoints.
Perhaps I am here to help you realize that this is a miserable unproductive way to live life.
PCD – I wish you the best in life. Please try to gain patience when talking with others. Do not be so quick to assume that they are part of a particular group simply because there views may oppose your own. After all, not everyone NEEDS to belong to a certain group/party. There are those who think for themselves through life experiences.
Ryan, you tried this crap out on Sister Toldjah’s website and you didn’t get any farther than you did here.
What little, small minded, self-important people like yourself seem to thing that answering your stupid questions and suggestions are the most important thing that the President has to deal with. You are wrong. Get over it.
Ryan,
One thing YOU NEVER offered was your solution to #2. You think no one noticed that? All you have is talk, surrender of people’s principles and treasure, but no answers.
Ryan, you are useless.
PCD – Last time I checked we were still considered a Democracy. The Presidents job is to answer to the people. Somehow you must have missed this in politcal science.
As far as #2: My suggestion is to work together (you and me) in order to come up with a solution. Unfortunately, I do not have all the answers, or a solution for this much bigger problem. I have a suggestion though. However, it seems you are not interested in working with someone with an opposing view point, just because. Seems extremely childish.
You should try UNDERSTANDING other view points, rather than to just challenge them. Once you have something important or meaningful to say, feel free. Who knows, you may even make a positive difference one day.
I feel very sorry for your current state PCD. You must be a very unhappy individual, dwelling in your own self made hatred for mankind. Guess what, you’re one of us.
I am sorry if you feel that working together is useless. -Sit back and think about that statement for minute.
ryan, you are the one with nothing to say and you have no solutions. You prove it with every post. You are the childish one arrogantly projecting your faults upon others.
Oh, you flunk PoliSci. We are a Representative Republic, not mob rule.
PCD – Your pesonality resembles that of a feral dog. Confused and mad at the world. Rough life.
PCD – There, I made a personal attack. Is this starting to make sense to you. Seems to be all you understand.
59, ryan, you are a spoiled child. Grow up and get out of the house. It might help to get off the bong, too.
You are unbelievable PCD.
I know 18 year olds who are of a superior intellect than you.
This conversation has strayed so far from its original point, and it is my fault for entertaining your idiotic rants.
60, You are just a 20 year old know it all that knows nothing. Your sophmoreic intellect is trying to assert its superiority, but just showing you to be a fool.
Listen, bub, I’m more than twice as old as you are. I’ve been around this world. I do know more, and have experienced more than you have. Take and internship at the CIA and then we’ll talk. Until then, you are just a blind fool trying to look wise and significant when you know yourself that you are neither.
PCD – Look back at your responses. All you have offered are self proclaimed achievements (which as far as I am concerned are completely false), broad generic statements and personal attacks. Nothing helpful.
I can’t find one actual intelligent statement from you. Look through this post. Provide me with an example.
I am done going in circles with you. You know longer exist to me.
It might help to get off the bong, too.
See, the Right Voices board is trying to make a difference! Daring to get kids off drugs!!!
Yes, by making completely erroneous and uneducated accusations. Seems typical.
Okay, I’m going to make a few comments on this.
Ryan, you are a prime example as to why Churchill said that “If you’re not a liberal at 20, you don’t have a heart and if you’re not a conservative at 40 you don’t have a brain.” Don’t take that as an insult, it wasn’t meant that way. You are young and really haven’t fully developed an understanding of the situation of running this country, especially during a time of war. Hell, I’m in my 40s and served in the military and I still don’t know everything that goes on. However, I do know that there are times when it is absolutely essential that the executive branch withhold information from the general population. When at war, it is necessary to NOT tell the enemy all of our secrets. I am certain that you are intelligent enough to understand that.
While you admit that we can not possibly deal with the terrorists, you fail to state an opinion other than to work together to stop them. You seem to fail to realize that the old adage that “the only good terrorist is a dead terrorist” does apply. Dead terrorists do not fly planes into buildings, blow up cars, cut people’s heads off on videotape, etc etc etc. As for your response to the First Lady’s comments about only hearing about a car bombing in Iraq, did you ever think about why she would say that? Could it be that we have been rebuilding an infrastructure that is in a woeful state of disrepair that is never reported? That we’ve brought safe drinking water to people who have never had it? How often do you hear about these kind of things?
On the Katrina situation, I liken Fema to a reconstructive surgeon. If you cut your hand do you:
a. put a bandaid on it and see if that takes care of it? (local government)
b. go to an urgent care center to have it stitched if necessary?(state government)
c. go directly to a reconstructive surgeon whether necessary or not? (federal government)
d. All of the above, as necessary?
Mayor Nagin failed to act to evacuate the city, AND refused to prepare the Superdome for use as an emergency shelter. He had an emergency response plan but failed to carry it out.
Governor Blanco was advised to activate the National Guard and offered assistance preparing for Katrina by Florida, she refused to do either.
Yet, despite the local and state government refusing to act to prevent loss of life, the federal government has been blamed for the resulting chaos. One thing everyone fails to account for is that FEMA is responsible for more than just New Orleans. FEMA responded faster to New Orleans than it has to hurricanes in southern Florida, but you don’t hear the Floridians whining do you? Why? Because they plan ahead for hurricane season, they actually execute their plans, and then take care of as much of the damage as they can THEMSELVES.
Personally, rather than getting wound up over the deaths of soldiers during a time of war, I’d much rather see the left get off their asses and actually act to stop the deaths of Americans at the hands of criminals in our cities. More Americans die every year at the hands of illegal aliens than at the hands of terrorists, but the liberals demand that nothing be done to stop them from entering the country. More Americans die at the hands of criminals than die at the hands of terrorists, but the liberals scream that we mustn’t execute or severely punish them for their actions. We must provide them with the very rights that they have taken from their victims. Why can’t the liberals get wound up about something they can change and save the lives of thousands of Americans annually? Why don’t the liberals march down the streets complaining about the thousands of innocent Americans who die at the hands of violent career criminals instead of the handful of criminals who die at the hands of law enforcement? How about a march demanding that anyone wanting to enter the US have a criminal and medical background check to prevent crime and epidemics? Wouldn’t that be a reasonable expectation for someone wanting to come here to improve their lives? Wouldn’t doing something like this be considered a reasonable example of the “working together” that you want? While I realize that you feel that there should be a one world government, you would NOT like the results. You would not want to live in a third world. Socialism/communism is a debunked hypothesis. It has failed repeatedly. Why? Because NOONE wants to work their asses off without being rewarded for their efforts. It reduces output to the lowest common denominator. Noone is willing to produce more while receiving no greater reward for their efforts than the least productive worker.
Ryan, you are a prime example as to why Churchill said that “If you’re not a liberal at 20, you don’t have a heart and if you’re not a conservative at 40 you don’t have a brain.”Don’t take that as an insult,
I completely understand what you are saying, and certainly do not take as an insult. I admit that my age has not permitted me to be as experienced in world events as others who have had more time than I. I simply call em as I seem em at this point.
Thanks!
While I realize that you feel that there should be a one world government, you would NOT like the results.
Thank you again for taking the time to provide your opinions. They are greatly appreciated.
Please know that I cherish the fact that I live in this beautiful nation we call The United States of America. I ador our freedoms, in addition to our rights and responsibilities.
I guess my point is mearley – We are wasting way to much time bickering for the sake to bicker. It happens on both sides, and will continue to do so, until we stop trying to prove the other wrong and actually listen to what they have to say. Again, this needs to happen on both sides.
Kind of like trying to make a marriage work without communication. I made be only 27 years of age, but I do realize this to be truth, through personal experience. And you know what, it worked. My wife and I have been together for about 7 years (married for 2) and our communication level is superb, and therefore, so is our marriage. I can only wish this for the rest of the world as well.