hey, billyboy...
Posted on 03/04/2007 6:58:14 PM PST by kellynla
Bill Maher has stirred outrage once again, this time saying it would be better if Vice President Dick Cheney was dead.
On his HBO show "Real Time," Maher and his guests were discussing the assassination attempt on Cheney last week, and the fact that the Huffington Post web site removed comments regarding readers' disappointment that Cheney had not been killed.
According to NewsBusters.org, the conversation went like this:
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?
Later, the panelists continued the discussion:
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.
Despite Maher's outrageous comments, few in the media picked up the story -- although Ann Coulter's comment use of a gay slur in reference to former Sen. John Edwards received widespread attention.
Maher got in trouble once before with his televised comments. After the 9/11 attacks, Maher said on his ABC show "Politically Incorrect" that the hijackers were "warriors" and not "cowards."
Within months the show was canceled
Maher is a moronic HBO liberal
I thought Bill Maher was dead...or maybe it was his career.
Nothing to see here. Go home. Nothing to see here. Let's focus on the hate speech of Ann Coulter.
I was out of the country for about 9 days, what the heck did I miss?
Good thing Maher didn't call Cheney a "Faggot" or anything, because this would be all over the news with widespread outrage.
Link to HBO "comment" form if anyone wants to let HBO know your view:
http://www.hbo.com/apps/submitinfo/contactus/submit.do?title=Real%20Time%20with%20Bill%20Maher&questiontype=realtimewithbillmaher
Quite. And there are several on here who have their panties all in a wad because they think Ann called The Breck Boy a faggot.
Which is worse? Which got the greater attention and the outraged ululations of the deeply offended crowd?
How does HBO make any money off his show?
And not one of them has dropped by this thread.
While Cheney was in Afghanistan, there was a bombing about a half-mile away from his location.
The Muzzies claimed that Cheney was their target...
not the greatest shots in the world.
And Maher said at the time "too bad the Muzzies missed."
This strikes me as odd, even for our Media.
Maher is a faggot
Cheney dies a hero. Condi is appointed Vice President.
Then 2008. Blacker than Obama, More Woman than Hillary. Tougher than Edwards. All bases covered.
Works for me.
Nah, faggots are more "Butch" than Breck-boy.
"How does HBO make any money off his show?"
they don't...at least I know they don't make any money from me. After Maher made the lowlife comment about those who had been beheaded in Iraq whose heads were left out on the curb...I CANCELED HBO!
Wrong side
This is a Maher said it, I believe it, that settles it, amen type of liberal orthodoxy group think that he expressed. I love it when these all knowing types state a mantra that we are supposed to accept upon faith, kind of like a religion.
The only problem is they are quite often, if not greater than 50% of the time wrong.
This is one of the many ways I know we're the good guys - we have no problem policing our own - regardless of whether we get "credit" for it (via the media) or not. Maher is a donkey-faced buffoon who does us the favor of letting the left think that only cynicism, invective, and audaciousness are necessary to have moral courage. Ultimately, they will see their errors, be killed, or lose.
ANN COULTER says that she can't talk about Edwards because she would have to go to Rehab for calling him a faggot, THAT's BAD....
Calling for the Death of the Vice-President, THAT"S GOOD..
Welcome to the upside-down word of the political correctness thought police, and Orwell's NewSpeak...
I am guessing with all the subscriptions to HBO, they have a few they put on just for the moonbats despite the loss of other viewers
and many of you were worried that coulter used the word faggot when she mentioned edwards.
coulter is very tame compared to the liberal scu%bags. they are potential murderous thugs. they are not respectable individuals.
I sent HBO a nice eyeful yesterday..I think they will be talking about it for awhile
at least Coulter's comments get laughs when she delivers them. Too bad Maher cant get real laughs anymore.
Well, FGS, how did I miss that one?
Thanks, kelly, for the information.
There's a reason why I sopped watching HBO a couple of years ago. They've had a leftist agenda for a very long time and I'm sick of it.
Yeah, I don't see lib's piling on Maher the way some conservatives are piling on Coulter. But, then again, that's the way it is, always has been, always will be.
I think it would be better if this unfunny dirtbag were in JAIL. Where's the Secret Service?? (Ok, that's why they're called the "Secret" service, but you know what I mean;)
That is so true.
They died on the Cole. They died in Kenya. They died at the WTC in 93...
Or are the dead from terrorism not 'needless' deaths...?
If Maher speaks and no one is around (watching), who even hears what the idiot says????
The probably do it because that is what they believe.
"Bill:
Let's go hunting sometime.
-VP"
Hey Maher, those friends of Bill that died, do you think they died needlessly?
Thankfully he didn't call the President a faggot - he could have been in real trouble.
This is an order of magnitude worse than anything Ann Coulter ever said. The only way she could top it is pull out a gun and shoot Maher between the eyes next time she's on his show, which is why conservatives will always be behind in the war of words with democrats.
Maher: But I have zero doubt that if Dick Cheney was not in power, people wouldn’t be dying needlessly tomorrow. (applause)
Now that's a friggin' knee-slapper!!!! Hooo hooo, hee heee... can't quite control myself... too funny!!!/sarc
Re #36: LOLOL!!! :)
hey, billyboy...
Agreed, time to get back to bashing Ann for using the word faggot. Maher wishing Cheney was murdered isn't as exciting. /sac
Maher: I’m just saying if he did die, other people, more people would live. That’s a fact.
Obviously Maher has a high opinion of his opinion. That's exactly what it was...an opinion, not fact. Libs always have problems knowing what facts are.
It would be interesting to see if she could get the required majority vote in both houses of Congress.
I think it's quite telling that somehow it's more socially acceptable to wish for the death of this nation's second highest leader than to call someone a name that some see as unaccepable...
A NAME, for crying out loud! You'd think your average American was 6. The fools who are offended by the use of a ridiculous name that is deemed "bad" when it means the same thing as a dozen others get very little respect for me. Infantile weaklings, all of them.
Huh. No wonder I didn't know Maher was still alive. We cancelled HBO two years ago.
i never cared for Cheney,but we'd be better off if smart ass face wisemouth maher disappeared-he just is a waste of live protoplasm
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