Posted on 04/18/2008 6:40:10 AM PDT by paterfamilias
Maher to Apologize for Calling Pope a 'Nazi' By Melanie Hunter-Omar CNSNews.com Senior Editor April 17, 2008
(CNSNews.com) - Liberal talk show host Bill Maher, whose controversial comments about the pope drew fire from the Catholic community, is planning to apologize Friday night for falsely accusing Pope Benedict XVI of being a Nazi, the Catholic League announced Thursday.
Catholic League President Bill Donohue received a phone call Thursday from an HBO executive regarding comments Maher made last Friday on HBO's "Real Time With Bill Maher."
As Cybercast News Service previously reported, Donohue said Maher "lied when he said the Pope 'used to be a Nazi.' Like all young men in Germany at the time, he was conscripted into a German Youth organization (from which he fled as soon as he could). Every responsible Jewish leader has acknowledged this reality and has never sought to brand the Pope a Nazi. That job falls to Maher."
Apparently HBO agreed with Donohue's assessment. "Apparently, now Maher does as well. Ergo, the apology," Donohue said.
So will the Catholic League accept Maher's apology?
"Assuming it comes across as genuine, the answer is yes. But I hasten to add that what we would really like to see is for Maher to stop with his hateful diatribes against the Catholic Church. So this is a start, but it hardly puts to rest our concerns," said Donohue.
"After all, there are plenty of factually accurate things Maher could say about other groups that would insult its members, but he chooses not to go there. Perhaps he can add Catholics and the Catholic Church to that protected list as well," he added.
Will I have to apologize if I call Bill Maher a braying jack@$$?
“I’m sorry if the less enlightened were offended by the truths I told...”
Or a similarly arrogant, condescending, non-apology.
Liberals just love to throw around that word, Nazi...................
Yes, you’ll have to apologize to all the braying jack@$$es out there......
In any defamation suit, the truth is a complete defense. So go ahead.
Bill Mahr to apologize for his remarks about the Pope - ping!
Ten to one the momzer will do a Hillary type “apology” and the liberal media will give him a pass. Personally, I don’t plan to believe his apology, it smells too much of being sorry for getting caught.
The two year old crying for attention!
I’ve been to Germany twice in recent years and I didn’t see a single Nazi anywhere.........
I’m Catholic and less offended by the Pope comment than that horrendous picture.
Good Lord!!!!
Guy goes into a bar, sits down and says, “All lawyers are a—holes. Guy next to him says, “I resent that.” First guy says, “Are you a lawyer?” Second guy says, “No, I’m an a—hole.”
Why should Bill Maher not be out of a job? How do we make it happen?
I have heard he’s a big dope smoker, and a major A-Hole.
That puts Maher above a few of the Catholic-bashers here on FR.
It’s not like anything that Maher was saying isn’t true on some level. Yes, the pope was a german soldier, and yes the church has had problems with pederasts in their midst.
Obviously the best humor is based in some level of fact. But in this instance, that humor crossed into poor taste. Maher is trying to work the same high intellect action that Dennis Miller works. He’s not nearly as accomplished at it as Miller and this set of jokes fell flat, with a thud.
“I’m sorry to anyone who I might have offended.”
Then stop coming here lefty.
LOL!!.....sounds like an oldy, but a goody.......
Also doesn't that look a head rug too?
The only reason he’s doing this is because HBO realized this was a subscription buster in the works and is forcing him to.
It has everything to do with the $$$ and nothing to do with what he said at all.
He has been so over the top for so long I would love to see the demographics of his audience. Probably the entire membership of DUmmieland and few others I suspect.
Any apology from Maher would ring hollow. I have a relative who has told me he'll only apologise if he sees it as a way to get an advantage in a disagreement. And then he'd make the other pay dearly for his having to apologise.
I’m sure the apology will be less than genuine. He’ll say the Pope wasn’t a Nazi, but he’ll include some other insult in the “apology”.
One couldn’t have a sense of history and come off looking so stupid.
He needs to apologize for more than just that.
True.
Maher should apologize to all the environmental wackos for wasting all of that oxygen from about the time he oozed out into the world...
Who wants to bet that it won’t be a smarmy non apology, that as soon as he’s done with it, he will begin to gtouse about it, and then whine about it, and then say he really didn’t mean it, but he was forced to say it, and who does that pope guy think he is, interfering with Mahers rights to be a filthy mouthed plague rat for his audiences of pig brained thug trash?
Watered down insult. Why do my Catholic friends insist on this kind of communication?
Just come out and say it...the man is a cornered, biased Christianophobe. If the shoe fits...why fool around with dancing slippers?
Only if you feel the need to apologize for telling the truth...;’}
“I’m sorry that you were offended”
Classic
Those folks are bitter having failed to make Kindergarten.
“Liberals just love to throw around that word, Nazi...................”
That’s calle a defense mechanism. The person or persons project upon others how they truly feel about themselves.
That’s why they do it. They now they have similar political beliefs as nazism.
now = know
Who cares what he said or will say ?
Uhhh ... No, thanks ...
Not good enough. He needs to appologize to everyone one/group he has slandered and insulted, then fired by the cowards that employ him.
Maher is the reason we don't subscribe to HBO. The man is just creepy. "dead eyes...like a doll's eyes" I'm sure he's loving this current round of publicity for his discusting little show.
You ain't kiddin'! And the inside ugly regularly erupts out into the world, like an overripe giant zit.
Not at all! I second your call!
“I have heard he’s a big dope smoker, and a major A-Hole.”
Did hear the former but only know about the latter based on his ‘humor’ and that case of his black girlfriend suing him.
He’s like, you can’t have my money biya*)&, I never said I’m marry anyone.
Not risking my money on women.
So if you know more on the latter, please share.
Exactly! You guys should demand that he get the Imus treatment....but you won’t. That’s what these scumbags count on.
I’m sure his apology will be as sincere as everything else that comes out of his mouth.
It very ironic actually....
Since the liberals hate Israel and the Joooooz, it seems to me that Nazi would be an endearing term. Yet they throw it around to everyone they dislike. Seems to me, a real life Nazi would be a liberal hero.
I don’t get it.
Actually...I think you do.
“You guys should demand that he get the Imus treatment....”
Schedule a meeting between Maher, the Pope, and Governor Corzine.
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