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Maher Calls Bike Ride with Wounded Warriors ‘Nauseating,’ Compares Bush to Cleveland Kidnaper
NewsBusters.org ^ | June 1, 2013 | Brent Baker

Posted on 06/02/2013 12:18:32 PM PDT by Kaslin

Though he had no idea what it was, the annual “Bush Center Warrior 100K” mountain bike ride, which took place over the Memorial Day weekend, upset Bill Maher. “I guess they walked or ran or something on their prosthetic limbs,” Maher sneered about George W. Bush’s ride around his Texas ranch with 20 servicemen, “and I found this to be nauseating. I mean, first he sends them off to war to get their limbs blown off and then he has them over for a barbecue.”

Maher then equated the former President with Ariel Castro, the kidnaper who held captive multiple women for a decade and murdered their un-born babies: “This is like the Cleveland guy having a pizza party for those girls he had in his basement.”

Maher Calls Bike Ride with Wounded Warriors 'Nauseating,' Compares Bush to Cleveland Kidnaper

That was too much even for panelist Neera Tandem, an architect of ObamaCare who now runs the left-wing Center for American Progress. She interjected: “Maybe that’s a little much.”

But it wasn’t too much for actress Brit Marling, who insisted: “I think you can go even farther. I think it’s sort of sadistic.”

It’s a safe bet most wounded soldiers would rather take a bike ride with Bush than Maher or Marling.

From the May 31 Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO:

BILL MAHER: George Bush, over the Memorial Day weekend, held the Wounded Warrior 100K, which was a kind of a celebration for wounded warrior who is came back from Iraq and I guess they walked or ran or something on their prosthetic limbs. And I found this to be nauseating. I mean, first he sends them off to war to get their limbs blown off and then he has them over for a barbecue. This is like the Cleveland guy having a pizza party for those girls he had in his basement.

NEERA TANDEN: Maybe that’s a little much.

ACTRESS BRIT MARLING: I think you can go even farther. I think it’s sort of sadistic. It’s very tragic when something like that happens and the idea that like these amputees, the technology that is allowing them to do these things is somehow something to celebrate. People shouldn’t be over there losing limbs in the first place.



TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: attentionwhore; billmaher; bush43; demagogue; democrats; hbo; leftwinglunatic; liberalfascism; liberalism; liberals; liberaltrash; maher; nihilistpuke; pifveterans; progressives; unfunnycomedian; veterans; woundedwarriors
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To: JRandomFreeper

Cool /johnny

These guys and women too are such great positive thinkers, many of them. They put some of us pretty much healthy folks to shame don’t they.


21 posted on 06/02/2013 12:40:40 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Funny thing happened on the way to the Constitution burning, Lefties rights were violated...)
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To: Kaslin

What a douchebag. And Time-Lies-Warner-Turner supports him (he’s not just on HBO but on advertiser supported CNN as a “commentator”).

Defund the Left. Boycott Time-Warner and their advertisers.


22 posted on 06/02/2013 12:43:04 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: JRandomFreeper
Good afternoon. I trust you are well.

Wonder what they would say about the Nuge taking wounded warriors shooting autofire weapons down at his ranch near Waco?

Only if I could go too.

I know, I'm being selfish.

5.56mm

23 posted on 06/02/2013 12:45:25 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: Kaslin

Not a Maher fan, and he goes too far, but... to a certain point, he does have reason.

Does anyone here not believe that we would have far less dead and wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan had Bush/Rumsfeld/Petreaus/et al not over-reacted to the al-Ghraib controversy and enforced (for years) overly restrictive Queensbury rules of engagement in both countries (in a way that was not in evidence during the initial invasion of each country)? Sorry, but that was playing politics with our troops in a way that would have been unthinkable during WWII.

I do believe Bush rightly should (and, likely, does) feel some guilt. Otherwise, why is he constantly seeming to “do penance” by (admittedly, in a respectful manner) promoting the cause of wounded vets?

Now, this in no way, of course, exculpates the current resident of the White House, as he has only made the overly restrictive rules ever more restrictive, and, if I detect his sentiments correctly, he — unlike Bush — feels ZERO guilt over any ill effects his policies may have on the life, health, and/or morale of our troops.


24 posted on 06/02/2013 12:45:28 PM PDT by man_in_tx (Islam is a Hate Crime. (Blowback: Faithfully farting towards Mecca five times daily!))
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To: DoughtyOne
That, and it's always polite to make way for crazy people that make a living jumping out of airplanes and killing people.

/johnny

25 posted on 06/02/2013 12:46:29 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: JRandomFreeper

When you tell a liberal that these war vets fight tooth and nail to return to duty, they fix you with a blank stare. I firmly believe they “erase” the comment because it doesn’t jibe with their false beliefs.


26 posted on 06/02/2013 12:49:29 PM PDT by Rides_A_Red_Horse (Why do you need a fire extinguisher when you can call the fire department?)
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To: JRandomFreeper; johnny

Now there’s a guy thinking on all cylinders. :^)


27 posted on 06/02/2013 12:49:51 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Funny thing happened on the way to the Constitution burning, Lefties rights were violated...)
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To: M Kehoe
I've thought about offering to be scullery or prep bitch when he feeds the wounded warriors. It's not that far, and I know kitchens. I need to do more for my brothers in arms that have been hurt.

/johnny

28 posted on 06/02/2013 12:49:57 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Kaslin

Every time I think Maher cannot drop lower than whale poop....he surprises me...he can...


29 posted on 06/02/2013 12:52:28 PM PDT by Popman (Godlessness is always the first step to the concentration camp.)
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To: Kaslin
I think Maher should get another bodyguard. I also think the ones he has right now are not paid enough.
30 posted on 06/02/2013 12:52:50 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: Kaslin

The queer saw men and became sick of his own inadequacy.


31 posted on 06/02/2013 12:53:01 PM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 .....Obama Denies Role in Government)
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To: Rides_A_Red_Horse
I was out 18 years when 9/11 happened. I found my DD-214 and with 2 waivers, got back in. I understand the concept, personally. My ex-wife didn't.

My two kids and their spouses were wearing a uniform on 9/11. I was, by God, going back, if they would have me.

/johnny

32 posted on 06/02/2013 12:53:59 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Kaslin
ACTRESS BRIT MARLING: I think you can go even farther. I think it’s sort of sadistic. It’s very tragic when something like that happens and the idea that like these amputees, the technology that is allowing them to do these things is somehow something to celebrate. People shouldn’t be over there losing limbs in the first place.

IQ? 63

33 posted on 06/02/2013 12:54:12 PM PDT by Alaska Wolf (I)
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To: Kaslin
sissy boy and his bike.. President Bush and his loyal soldiers..All great men
34 posted on 06/02/2013 12:55:00 PM PDT by PLD (Life is short...forgive quickly, love truly, laugh uncontrollablyÂ… and never regret anything that)
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To: PLD

Awesome. Post #3 request. Thanks.


35 posted on 06/02/2013 12:57:25 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,)
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To: Kaslin

Why do they call this waste of oxygen a “comedian”? I would have thought that to be called a comedian you’d actually have to be at least a little bit funny.


36 posted on 06/02/2013 12:57:49 PM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: Kaslin
What I find nauseating is Maher. I watched him once while he talked with Joe Scarborough for five minutes.

I turned it off in the middle of his conversation, I swore I would never listen to him again, and haven't. I've never been nauseated by any speaker as quickly at any time in my life. It literally made me sick to listen to him.

37 posted on 06/02/2013 1:02:10 PM PDT by Lakeshark (!)
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To: Kaslin

Maher got into it for calling the 9/11 hijackers brave and our guys cowards for launching missiles from thousands of miles away. The next time he has a faux conservative/ fool conservative on I’d like to see him ask Bill what he thinks of Obama’s drone policy. I don’t have anything against using the drones but I would like to see Maher explain how that’s noble under zero bur guided missiles under Bush were evil.


38 posted on 06/02/2013 1:02:12 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (President Obma; The Slumlord of the Rentseekers)
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To: Feckless
I wish it were legal to kill enemies of this nation whenever and wherever you found them....

You mean it isn't? Oops.

39 posted on 06/02/2013 1:06:25 PM PDT by katana (Just my opinions)
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To: ColdOne
Go f yourself Bill.

He couldn't find it with both hands.

40 posted on 06/02/2013 1:10:42 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Plan "B" is now Plan "A")
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