THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH - OBAMA'S CIRCLE OF FRIENDS
THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH - BLACK LIBERATION THEOLOGY AND OBAMA'S CHURCH
Posted on 04/19/2008 8:22:14 AM PDT by vietvet67
Bill Maher on Friday night's "Real Time" made something crystal clear that conservatives have known for decades: Liberal means never having to say you're sorry.
Having on last Friday's program (as reported by my colleague Matthew Balan) "stated that the Pope 'used to be a Nazi,'" Maher was supposed to apologize for his transgression.
Well, if the nonsense he uttered last evening is what liberals call an apology, it should act as a grander indictment as to what's wrong with the extreme-left in our nation (video embedded upper-right courtesy our friend Ms Underestimated):
Last week, I got into some trouble with the Catholic League, not the first time...Not my biggest fans...because I said in our little essay ending the show, I said, "The Pope," and I looked at it again, I looked at the words carefully, "used to be a Nazi." Okay, now first of all, it was a joke, okay? We were in a comedic context. I said, "He used to be a Nazi, and he wears funny hats, and ladies, he's single." So, right away, we're in the context of a joke, okay, and "used to." Okay, but, you know, you got me. The Pope was not a Nazi. When he was a teenager, he was in the Hitler Youth, which meant that he said the oath directly to Hitler and not to the Nazis, which is sorta worse!
Nice apology so far, wouldn't you agree? First, the typical liberal line, "It's a joke," which is what we've seen the past few years any time anybody on the left makes a senseless, insensitive statement.
Yet, even better, in his so-called apology, Maher actually suggested that a child in Nazi Germany saying an oath to Hitler is WORSE than BEING a Nazi. But it gets worse:
But, but wait a second, the thing that argues for their side of this is that, you know what, he was coerced into that. He was a teenager. I wouldn't blame any teen, he was a fourteen-year-old kid in Nazi Germany, of course he's going to do what they tell him to do. So, on that score, you know what my Catholic friends, I will never make the Pope is a Nazi joke again, because you're technically right, okay, and also because it distracts from the main point.
Wait for it!
And the main point I was making was that if the Pope instead of a religious figure was the CEO of a chain of nationwide daycare centers, who had thousands of employees who had been caught molesting children and then covering it up, he would have been in jail.
Nice "apology," Bill!
As a post facto aside, I must say that if Maher is going to invite the fabulous Dutch writer Ayaan Hirsi Ali on the show, maybe he ought to give her more time to speak. Instead, the panel discussion of this installment was dominated by absurdities from Harvard's Cornel West, inanities from Markos Moulitsas, and the normal invective from Maher.
Sadly, Ali was given about as much face-time as Carlton the Doorman.
—Noel Sheppard is an economist, business owner, and Associate Editor of NewsBusters.
No doubt his usual audience, such as it is, laughed themselves sick over this.
Why ANY Conservative would go on that dope’s show is beyond me. His face makes me want to vomit...The most uninteresting, unfunny, mean-spirited voice on TV today. He is proof that liberalism is a degenerative disease that makes you old, mean and ugly before your time.
Did anyone really expect this A-hole Maher to apologize??
His apology was basically a device to get himself more
of an audience to say something even more reprehensible
and offensive. THAT’S the way it works with him. Calculated. Creepy. ( “and Ladies....he’s single!)
Let him yap. The free market will decide.
I don’t understand this apologize crap.
I've seen nearly as bad here in FR.
Let them say what they will, mahar and those who parrot the same lies are to be pitied for their willful ignorance and hateful rhetoric.
Perhaps his audience numbers have dropped so low he’s now trying to endear himself to the legions of Catholic bashers here.
Maher has no talent. Therefore, he must say outrageous things in order to get people to pay attention to him.
“Carlton the Doorman.”
Maher is about as lame as the faceless Carlton sounded over the intercom.
First of all; who cares who his fans are. This man needs to be taken off the airway. From what I have seen his form of entertainment has no place on any format. He is simply a racist and a hate monger.
First of all; who cares who his fans are. This man needs to be taken off the airway. From what I have seen his form of entertainment has no place on any format. He is simply a racist and a hate monger.
Maher may just be the worst person I have ever seen, and that really is saying something. I am not Catholic btw.
This isn’t the first time he’s said disgusting things about Catholics.
bttt
If you absolutely need to have HBO, just cancel it for 4-5 months and then get it again... at least it will drop the bottom line for HBO.
As soon as Maher makes similar statements about Mohammed, I'll retract my assertion that he is a spineless coward.
Maher is a pitiful insecure man who is egged on by a complicit media that bashes the crap out of the Don Imus-types but basically gives religion bigots a free ride.
Judgment Day can’t come soon enough for Maher.
Joseph Ratzinger was 6 years old when Hitler came to power in 1933. His father (also named Joseph) was a small-town policeman who had utter contempt for, and openly opposed, Hitler's Brown Shirts, and for this reason was forced out of his job and several subsequent rural and small-town police jobs, requiring his family to move several times.
They finally settled in Traunstein, where they used to clandestinely listen to Allied radio broadcasts, an anti-Nazi activity which was, of course, strictly illegal.
In December 1939, membership in Hitler Youth was made mandatory, and Ratzinger's entire class was automatically enrolled. Young Ratzinger refused to attend meetings (a remarkable thing, I think, for a 14-year-old.)
At about the same time, in early 1941, the Nazis seized of one of Ratzinger's first cousins, who was also 14 years old and had Downs Syndrome, and --- what is the word? -- liquidated him. As you can imagine, this event traumatized the whole family.
Ratzinger left high school and enrolled in the minor seminary, which did not have Hitler Youth. Two years later, at age 16 and still in the seminary, he was drafted into the German anti-aircraft corps, in a unit which included many who were conspicuously unwilling to be there ("criminal" conscripts--- that is, enemies of the Nazi state --- and slave laborers from Dachau were also assigned to this unit.)
Ratzinger never took part in combat and, in fact, never fired a weapon. In April 1944 he deserted. He made his way back on foot to his family's home in Traunstein, just as American troops established their headquarters in the Ratzinger household. As a German soldier, he was put in a POW camp but was released a few months later at the end of the War in summer 1945.
Thus concludes Joseph Ratzinger's "Nazi career." It forms the historic and personal basis for Ratzinger's lifelong opposition to the "Culture of Death." It is corroborated from many reliable sources all over the Internet; one good example is this eye-opening article from Jewish World Review.
Ratzinger is a Mensch.
BTW, Use your writing skills to post a quick letter of protest to the head honchos at HBO here:
http://www.hbo.com/apps/submitinfo/contactus/submit.do?title=Real%20Time%20with%20Bill%20Maher&questiontype=realtimewithbillmaher
How else would this itsy bitsy angry little man get any attention at all unless he was bashing someone. I say ignore it for these reasons:
The Pope who is humble receives thousands and thousands who love, honor and respect him.
little willie marh has to BEG for attention through bashing of anyone he does’t like.
Weigh those both and see who comes out ahead.
No, of course not.
He would not make an anti-Muslim joke because he doesn’t want to get himself killed.
He would not make an anti-Semitic joke because he doesn’t want to be accused of Antisemitism.
He would not make an anti-black joke, because that would be racist and would get him fired.
But he will make anti-Catholic jokes to his heart’s content, because his liberal bosses approve of that. Anti-Catholicism is politically correct. It is a form of bigotry highly approved of by the liberal establishment.
Exactly.
I never saw what Ann Coulter saw in him when they were dating. He seems to have really serious issues. Yuck.
Exactly. The behavior of the left this week has been sickening.
How does a pile of crap like him get a job?
“How does a pile of crap like him get a job?”
I’ve wondered about that since way before his 9/11 comments. WHO hires him? WHY?
HBO - owed by Time/Warner, Ted Turners buddies! Nuff said.
He will end up like Woody Allen, who was once one of the nation's top comedians and film makers, until he pushed the envelope once too often.
Maher wears so much make-up he must have pock-marked, or pimple-marked skin. Between that and his behavior, I guess that makes him a Nappy-faced ho!
Where are the Imus detractors that ran him off the air? Oh, I forgot...like it has been said here and everywhere...bashing Catholics is Politically Correct. /sarcasm
Well, he got the CEO part right. Mahoney is still smiling his way around LA and he should have been in jail long ago. When the church removes this guy, I’ll pay attention to the moral example of the pope. The pope is directly responsible for Mahoney.
He is as shallow as the network that gives him air time.
I've seen him at a restaurant in LA, surrounded by at least a dozen fans, which apparently were there to get a free meal off his dime. He looked sad and seemed quite aware of how he was being exploited by fans who would leave him in a second if it wasn't for their “being seen with a celebrity.”
Of course, he was buying drinks for “all his close friends” and acting like the big shot that he is NOT.
I enjoyed the moment — seeing this circus show of the absurd...
but he used to be on one of the networks with “Politically Incorrect” before which I’d never heard of him .. he’s not at all funny, he’s uglier than sin .. why/how does he get hired? A puzzle for the ages, I guess.
Maher has a valid point....he’s just blaming the wrong pope.
Marilyn Manson Now Going Door-To-Door Trying To Shock People
He better get some security.
i once heard him say that instead of using animals in medical trials we should use people who are in prison. if the person in question is on death row, i’d agree.
pretty much everything else he says is utter rot though. i have issues with catholicism, but his statemnts were not only stupid, but worse, for a “comedian”, they were not funny.
A few years ago, he was the headline talent at a fundraiser for Phil Hendrie's charity...some Hollywood shelter for runaways. Phil spoke about it on his show. People got up and walked out on Maher, he was just so UNfunny.
Phil said something like "Okay, Bill, we get the point. You don't like Bush. Try to be funny with it, not angry all the time, okay?"
Like hell.
...he’s just blaming the wrong pope.
Slanderous.
Wow what astute comebacks. You left out “Oh yeah?”
Nothing more needed to be said.
No, it wasn't.
Yes, I have seen the Catholic bashing here too. These dividers of Christianity only weaken it from being able to take on our real adversaries. Often, the bashing centers on matters of doctrine that seem more about personal belief than of eternal consequence.
Naah, that's just all the ammo you have.
You’ve already posted all the proof you have.
Once in a while Maher’s customary promotion of hate and bigotry actually gets noticed, then he back pedals. Personally, I don’t find anything he says particularly interesting, whether he’s spewing his trash or apologizing for it.
Exactly.
Which Pope do you mean?
The pope under whose watch the catholic church became "child molesters-R-us"
He made in clear that he expects the bishops to clean up this mess or he will.
I suspect Mahoney and Egan may be out before the end of the year.
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