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.
I just have to post so people see my tagline.
Mainstream liberal opinion.
Or maybe you want to show us where a freeper has said they want to see violence and murder to prove conservative credentials..
He's a punk. The easiest way to make him go away is to ignore him.
liberalism is an insane cult
I was in no way implying Christians endorse the extremists violence. How you came to that conclusion is beyond me.
Pretty much and for the vast majority of FReepers, I'd agree with you.
But, tempers and passions did get a little bit heated during the Shiavo threads. Seems I remember warnings against posting messages advocating certain extreme behavior.
Most every group has its collection of oddballs and extreme extremists.
I opened my post with, "If I understand you correctly..."
Pardon me, for I obviously misread your comments.
Precisely my point. Jim Robinson won't tolerate that sort of behavior.
The article is only to be found on page B13 of the actual print edition.
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I confess to loving the Times's food, home, calendar, and health sections. It's also a handy way to check on current leftist propaganda. But this one thing might finally get me to cancel my subscription.
The Left can say or do ANYTHING and nothing ever happens to them.
That's the response Maher is aiming for. On the Scarborough show ( of all places), Bill Maher announced he's "Pro-Death" - pro-abortion on demand, pro-capital punishment, and pro-physician-assited suicide." Scarborough, chuckling, offered that that "would make an interesting campaign bumper sticker."
Bottom line: Unless you live in Southern California and get the Times yourself, this article doesn't exist anywhere else.
What is the Times hiding? Hmmmm ...
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