Good time to bring it back? I'll volunteer.
Posted on 04/19/2008 7:06:48 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Edited on 04/19/2008 7:15:26 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Comedian Bill Maher stopped short of apologizing Friday night for accusing Pope Benedict XVI of being a Nazi, but he said he'd refrain in the future from drawing that connection.
"I will never make 'the pope is a Nazi' joke again," Maher said on his HBO show, "Real Time With Bill Maher."
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
The only thing Maher is “sorry” about is having to apologize.
If he bashed libs instead of attacking mostly conservatives he’d have been off the air a looooong time ago.
Maher is what splatters all over the toilet bowl after eating a tainted chili cheese dog (beef of course).
Easily the least contrite apology I have ever seen.
Does his show actually make money??
Pray for W and Our Troops
Good time to bring it back? I'll volunteer.
What do you expect from someone who says that terrorists are brave.
I heard a media analyst on FoxNews yesterday who said that Maher’s show does indeed make money for HBO. I’ve never seen the show and don’t watch HBO, so I can only pass on what I heard.
In another time he'd be burnt at the stake for heresy in the center of St. Peter's Square.
In a more rational time, he'd be tarred and feathered.
“you are talking about one of those chili cheese dogs you get from one of the illegal vendors right”
Sure. LOL
Who ‘drives’ Maher’s “career”? Hasn’t it been O-Ver since the 9/11 “cowards” comment? I figured it was. Who keeps hiring this hack? You know what’s really funny? - when an article describes Maher as a “comedian”. Now that’s funny.
I’ve only known Maher to be a non-Patriot societal hack with a microphone. Maybe his current comments will finally bring an end to his loser “career”.
With another religion, he'd be dead, but then that's why he's brave enough to say this sort of thing about the Pope, and not an imam or a certain pedophiliac prophet.
Mark
I liked the Sopranos well enough that I continued subscribing to HBO even though I felt like I was supporting the likes of scum like Maher. After the Sopranos last show, I could not leave them fast enough. I believe they have steadily lost subscribers since the Sopranos exit.
He has made prime time on literally every news outlet - Wow - and it didn't cost him a cent, and he also gains a considerable audience wanting to hear his next broadside.
Who wins - the public or Maher??
It's pathetic.
Maher said that Pope Benedict took the formal oath in front of Hitler when he was 14. Not true!
Pope Benedict's instructor signed the form to show that he had attended the prescribed number of meetings, when in fact he didn't. This was done so that Joseph Ratzinger could continue his studies in the seminary.
Maher also said that if the Pope were in charge of hundreds of Day Cares, and the sex abuse scandal, he would be in jail.
Pope Benedict didn't become Pope until after all this had exploded a few years prior.
Maher continues to get it all wrong, and does nothing but show his absolute contempt for the Catholic Church.
Sonic has some great foot long chili cheese dogs, without Montezuma’s revenge, I can vouch for them. :)
He is lower than pond scum.....he is filth of the lowest location on this entire earth.
What keeps him on the air.....an amoral society and listening audience?.....or the nitwork owners and big guns who approve his garbage?......or a little of both?........(which is what I think).
Leni
I still wonder if Maher is one of the outrageous anti-Catholic posters on the FR religious forums. His blatantly false rhetoric sounds like theirs.
Maher gets far more attention than he deserves.
I just signed up to switch from cable to Dish network and specifically did NOT sign up for HBO. I went to the HBO Corporate Website end sent them an email as to why I did not buy their show.
“Sonic has some great foot long chili cheese dogs, without Montezuma’s revenge, I can vouch for them. :)”
“Great” and “Sonic” aren’t two words that I’d use in the same sentence, however, I’ve always managed to keep them down, too.
This was not an apology, an apology involves contrtion.
He was/ is not contrite at all.
This guy is an Idiot ....
F—k Bill Maher......he’s not even worthy of the time it takes to scrape him off the bottom of my shoe!
Militant
Here’s where you can let HBO know about it...
http://www.hbo.com/apps/submitinfo/contactus/submit.do
I just got off the phone with my cable subscriber. No more HBO for me. First, the cancelled NFL This Week, then they put Brant Gumball on the air, now... they continue to employ this despicable person.... no more for me please.
Why is he referred to as a comedian? He has never, ever been funny nor amusing. In addition, he is one of the most repulsive looking people on television.
He gets more coverage in the news and on threads than his show would ever afford him.
Like a bully; ignore him and eventually he will go away.
I'd be fascinated to know his reason why.
I'd be fascinated to know his reason why.
thxs - i just e-mailed. if they don’t fire him, i’m cancelling. i’m only keeping HBO for John Adams anyway.
I think we should all write to CNN as Larry King has him on often and asks him his views on politics, it is really sickening to watch and Larry King laughs his a$$ off at him.
Let’s get him off CNN also.
Thanks for the link; I cancelled by HBO this morning and just sent the HBO site my reasoning.
A sure sign of great/good/digestible food. Top it off with chili cheese fries and your all set.
Bill Maher is a libberal Facism Joke.
“A sure sign of great/good/digestible food. Top it off with chili cheese fries and your all set.”
Don’t forget the cardiology consult!
I didn’t realize how vicious the remarks were until I heard them on Fox News this morning. If I were a subscriber to HBO I’d cancel.
Hahahaha, you're right but it sure is fun eatin'. My left arm is tingling - just kidding.
Dirty water Dog?
But if Obama or Clinton are in the Whitehouse, his day in the sunshine will have arrived!
He fails to make the connection between real nazis and real islamofascists.
Nationwide there is an epidemic of abuse going on in public schools and while these are reported in local media, there is no mention at all in the nationl outlets. Wonder why???
I stopped my HBO subscription because of the Maher show. I made sure I told them why I was cancelling. They seemed genuinely surprised.
That was the “apology”???
He wasn’t sorry at all.
I do think, though, that catholics have overreacted. Who the hell cares what this scumbag says? The reputation of the church and the Pope do not depend on what non-funny comedians say.
For the Catholic League to formally respond elevates Maher to the level of someone of importance, which he surely is not.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QD4wk8xi83E
Apology???
I’m cancelling HBO right after John Adams tomorrow.
If he had real balls he would insult Islam but I think he likes breathing too much.
Doesn’t surprise me.
The abuse scandals of the church are probably not statistically greater than the number of sex abuse cases involving secular teachers. I admit that the church deserves blame for a cover up, but when you discount the vast majority of cases that involved priests and teenage boys (i.e., homosexual encounters that do not qualify as pedophilia because the age of the “victim”), the number of priest-abuse cases is probably even smaller than the number of such cases involving secular teachers.
The difference in the number of pedophilia cases compared with the overall US population and cases not involving priests may even be statistically insignificant given the total number of priests and the number of students they encountered over the years. This whole thing has largely been an anti-catholic hoax that the MSM has deliberately misrepresented.
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