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Decorated Former Staff Sergeant Fires Back at HBO's Maher for Rapist Joke about U.S. Soldiers
NewsBusters ^ | March 31, 2009 | Jeff Poor

Posted on 03/31/2009 7:57:31 AM PDT by Rufus2007

It might be par for the course, but liberal cable talk show host Bill Maher has once again done his best to offend with a distasteful and insensitive wisecrack about the U.S. military.

Maher launched into a rant on his March 27 HBO show, "Real Time with Bill Maher" about American soldiers still stationed in Germany and Japan and took a swipe at the soldiers, insinuating they were rapists.

"Forget about bringing the troops home Iraq - we need to get the troops home from World War II," Maher said. "Can anybody tell me why in 2009, we still have more than 50,000 troops in Germany and 30,000 in Japan? At some point these people are going to have to learn to rape themselves."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: billmaher; hbo; military
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I'm glad to see more and more pushback against Maher's tasteless schtick...
1 posted on 03/31/2009 7:57:31 AM PDT by Rufus2007
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To: Rufus2007

I agree, I would ONLY HOPE that Maher’s words become known, fat chance if that!


2 posted on 03/31/2009 7:59:25 AM PDT by peace with honor
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To: Rufus2007
This is Bill Maher's "BEFORE" picture:

The plastic surgeons did what they could for him but the brain installation was a total failure.

3 posted on 03/31/2009 8:03:14 AM PDT by capt. norm (Never underestimate the power of very stupid people in large groups.)
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To: Rufus2007

some people just need to be stuffed into burlap sacks and beaten with 2X4s


4 posted on 03/31/2009 8:05:45 AM PDT by Vaquero ( "an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Rufus2007

I’ll bet that Bill Maher has never made rape jokes about The UN “peacekeepers” or UN officials slipping out of our country will charged with rape.


5 posted on 03/31/2009 8:06:54 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Pres Obama just spent $150million of the $160million in returned AIG bonuses on a trip to England.)
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To: Rufus2007

Can anybody tell me why in 2009, we still have more than 50,000 troops in Germany and 30,000 in Japan? ................................ Its called SEATO and NATO, Putz!


6 posted on 03/31/2009 8:07:10 AM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (Liberals fear the return of The Cleaver Family.)
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To: Vaquero

Actually, people like him need to be ignored.

These nutcases say something controversial, the news covers it, and their 15 minutes of fame get pushed to 30 minutes


7 posted on 03/31/2009 8:07:52 AM PDT by lakertaker (Libertarian Party since 1998)
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To: Rufus2007

I’ve tried and tried to find a reason not to cancel HBO. Now I’ve officially given up. I’ll call the cable copmpany today and tell them that HBO is no longer welcome in my house and that Bill Maher was the final straw.


8 posted on 03/31/2009 8:11:11 AM PDT by Two Kids' Dad (((( ))))
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To: Vaquero
...burlap sacks and beaten with...
Stuff. Then turn loose the red ants and break out the pepper spray.
9 posted on 03/31/2009 8:12:19 AM PDT by carumba (The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made. Groucho)
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To: Two Kids' Dad

Maher is a low life. yet he si the kind of person Hollywood loves.

Remember during WW2 when Hollywood stars signed up to fight and movies praised our eforts. If we had the political climate then, that we have now there would be no Jews and we would be speaking German, and Maher would be dead the first time he opened his mouth, and Sean Penn right alongsside him..


10 posted on 03/31/2009 8:15:24 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: capt. norm

I haven’t watched tv in ten years and never did watch hbo or gravitate toward the likes of this jerk, so I am pretty unfamiliar with maher’s looks.

So my question — Is that a real picture of maher? Minus the swastica, I know. Rarely does a picture speak so eloquently of mental deficiency.


11 posted on 03/31/2009 8:17:16 AM PDT by RobinOfKingston (Democrats, the party of evil. Republicans, the party of stupid.)
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To: Venturer

You’re right. And I just emailed HBO to give them a piece of my mind. Sorry for the long URL, but here’s a link if anyone else wants to do the same:

http://www.hbo.com/apps/submitinfo/contactus/submit.do?title=Real%20Time%20with%20Bill%20Maher&questiontype=realtimewithbillmaher


12 posted on 03/31/2009 8:17:40 AM PDT by Two Kids' Dad (((( ))))
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To: Rufus2007

POS....


13 posted on 03/31/2009 8:22:54 AM PDT by texrepub76
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To: Two Kids' Dad
Thank you for the link. All of us should go complain to HBO right after we post here. Maher is a terrible person, a legend in his own mind, who brings the standards of entertainment down to sewer level. His snipe at our troops who are dying so that he is free to speak such garbage should not go unresponded to.
14 posted on 03/31/2009 8:25:38 AM PDT by FOXFANVOX (God Bless America)
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To: Rufus2007

The man is a mental midget if he doesn’t get it about defense treaties and the realities of the world situation. He needs to move up to adulthood and become a man.


15 posted on 03/31/2009 8:29:15 AM PDT by West Texas Chuck (US out of the UN - UN out of the US)
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To: Rufus2007

Since he don’t believe in God, what the hell does he care about morality? Hypocrite. Now if he would apply the same standard to Hollyweird, we may care to listen.


16 posted on 03/31/2009 8:35:01 AM PDT by annieokie
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To: FOXFANVOX

I just did. Not sure the good it will do. I dropped HBO long ago.


17 posted on 03/31/2009 8:39:37 AM PDT by LimaLimaMikeFoxtrot ("If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir"-Gen.Sherman)
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To: RobinOfKingston

Yes, that is Bill Maher w/ a few 'touch ups'. He is really uglier than that photo shows.

18 posted on 03/31/2009 8:57:00 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: RobinOfKingston

Bill Maher making fun of crocodile hunter, Steve Irwin's death


19 posted on 03/31/2009 9:00:04 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: Rufus2007

I’d say his soul is as ugly as his face, but Maher is soulless.


20 posted on 03/31/2009 9:12:54 AM PDT by Sig Sauer P220 (Suicide bombers never have the guts to try it twice.)
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