Posted on 11/05/2005 8:05:30 PM PST by infoguy
A Friday, November 4, 2005, op-ed piece in the Los Angeles Times by HBO host Bill Maher begins as follows (emphasis mine):
"President Bush's new Supreme Court nominee, Samuel Alito, must bomb an abortion clinic."
It gets ... worse. Four paragraphs later (emphasis mine):
"Is Alito a decent man with Christian values? Until he kills a nurse with a pipe bomb, there's no way to be sure. Sometimes the only way to convince some people that you're truly pro-life is to kill a few of them. Like when a gang member has to knife some random guy to prove himself."
"Kill[ing] a nurse with a pipe bomb"? Comparing pro-lifers to murderous gang members? Maher has been outrageous in the past, but ... this?
We can only imagine the "outrage" in the media if [fill in your favorite conservative writer here] had printed anything even remotely like this.
Want to read the entire article yourself? Good luck. The title of the piece is "Is abortion finito with Alito?", but this writer has been unable to find it anywhere on the latimes.com website, Google, or Yahoo.
In the last several weeks, articles by Maher have begun to appear on a regular basis (Fridays?) in the Times. Although an October 21, 2005, piece by Maher is found in their archives, it seems that many of his articles are not archived by the paper. Why?
Is the Times trying to avoid accountability for Maher's often-incendiary diatribes? Are they afraid of drawing too much attention to their pairing with Maher? Are they trying to avoid further discussion of his work (through posts like this)?
It looks like it.
Whenever I see this little gargoyle, I always think of the wonderful Ambrose Bierce quote:
"No one is completely worthless in that he may serve as a poor example."
Any FReeper who openly advocated violence against an abortion clinic would be banned. Accordingly, I request that you list FReeper names with citation to specific posts as examples, or retract this comment and request that it be removed.
I see Maher's set aside this special time to humiliate himself in public.
I was referring to the people who are against Alito because he wouldn't "stop abortions" as an appellate judge. They want someone who is as extreme and activist as Ginsburg, not a judge who will abide by the Constitution.
No, there aren't. And it's idiotic to suggest that there are.
As idiotic as Maher saying it in the first place.
Refer more carefully, because that ain't what you said.
Please list the citations or pull the post. Stating that FReepers would advocate violence is slanderous and irresponsible. Such posting is not allowed here.
LOL! Great quote. :o)
Sadly the right is open to such depraved atatcks because of pro-life extremists bombings. There is no equivalent activity on the left, excluding Clintons hits.
I don't hardly think so...we are not that vicious or delusional.
I'd say the slaughter of over 1 million innocent unborn children each year is roughly equivalent.
Bill Who ???
Posters here are wound up so tight that they are simply incapable of laughing at the absurd. Hey guys, loosen up, the world is not all politics and extreme advocacy.
when did ginsberg bomb a clinic?
everyone behind a keyboard is an extremist
Cool response..Says a lot
To the liberal we are all nazi robots...It's too damn bad we out number them....Bwa Ha Ha Ha Ha.
This kind of stuff justs make Maher look like the kook he is. He just insulted the majority of voters(Christians). I'm glad he keeps spouting off. While he drives those who vote on moral issues away, he can enjoy the commradery of like minded perverts, parasites, and pedophiles which make up the ever shrinking rat party.
Unfortunately thats still legal.
Maher's watching his career go down the toilet and is trying DESPERATELY to hold on.
"Someone PLEASE watch my show!!!"
And every liberal in America will defend this statement, swearing that it's absolutely true.
But then, these are the same people who think Clarence Thomas is only 3/5 of a person.
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