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Shocker: Bill Maher Smacks Down Liberal Attacks on Israel
NewsBusters.org ^ | August 4, 2014 | Laura Flint

Posted on 08/04/2014 10:12:11 AM PDT by Kaslin

Bill Maher is known for his pathological, frothing attacks on all things conservative. However, on the August 1 edition of Real Time With Bill Maher, the HBO host took a controversial stance for a liberal: he defended Israel. When his Iranian-American guest Reza Aslan argued that “Amnesty International...have found no evidence whatsoever of any kind of human shield being used,” Maher interrupted to state “It's a war. It's a war that Hamas started.”

The left-wing comedian continued, claiming that “somehow when Israel reacts to this, they have to do everything in a way that doesn't kill any civilians. People die in wars.” Maher repeated his sentiment from July 28, that “if the situation was reversed, Hamas would kill every single person in Israel. The reason that's not happening is because they can't. Because they can't doesn't make them good, it makes them weak.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Israel
KEYWORDS: andrewrosssorkin; billmaher; dougheye; mediabiasdebate; mediadiversity; palestine; rezaaslan

1 posted on 08/04/2014 10:12:11 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Maher has gone after the Left on a number of occasions. Not alot, but it isn’t rare.


2 posted on 08/04/2014 10:14:53 AM PDT by RIghtwardHo
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To: Kaslin

News is drama. He probably can’t find anybody to counter his guests so he has to do it himself.


3 posted on 08/04/2014 10:15:54 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: Kaslin

I frequent a liberal site. To be blunt, it’s more fun to discuss the issues with people you disagree with. But I digress.

What I’ve noticed there is this action by Israel is splitting the liberals right down the middle. It’s even tearing them apart more than the Martin/zimmerman thing.

That is a very good thing.


4 posted on 08/04/2014 10:18:57 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: Kaslin

“When his Iranian-American guest Reza Aslan argued that “Amnesty International...have found no evidence whatsoever of any kind of human shield being used,”

When we can’t find any Jew haters here, we import them.


5 posted on 08/04/2014 10:20:11 AM PDT by headstamp 2
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To: Kaslin

Does Maher have Jewish blood flowing in his veins? His schnauz makes me wonder...


6 posted on 08/04/2014 10:28:48 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: Kaslin

““we are better than Hamas” is not Israel’s national motto. This idea that Hamas is a terrorist organization and Israel is a democracy, there is no moral equivalence, you’re absolutely right, there is no moral equivalence. There is none. It’s the democracy that requires greater criticism. It’s the democracy that has to live up to the values that it ascribes to itself.”

Classic Alinski tactics from Professor Aslan.


7 posted on 08/04/2014 10:34:13 AM PDT by DariusBane (Liberty and Risk. Flip sides of the same coin. So how much risk will YOU accept? Vive Deco et Vives)
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To: RIghtwardHo
Maher has gone after the Left on a number of occasions. Not alot, but it isn’t rare.

I've noticed that. I'm not fond of him, but one thing I will say is that he isn't one of those liberal idiots that have become Islamist apologists simply because "anything that outrages Christians is good." (Which is how a lot of them operate.)

8 posted on 08/04/2014 10:34:33 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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To: A_perfect_lady
I will say is that he isn't one of those liberal idiots that have become Islamist apologists simply because "anything that outrages Christians is good."

he is that about 90% of the time though.

9 posted on 08/04/2014 10:39:46 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Kaslin

Bill Maher is so vile, he soils your cause when he does agree with you.

Bill, just keep supporting the world’s Marxists. Don’t confuse people by directly supporting Israel, when 99% of the time you support the people who hate Israel.


10 posted on 08/04/2014 11:01:03 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Think how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of the populace is worse than that.)
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To: Kaslin
He's one of the most stubborn of the Leftists.

I'm glad to see he is not as hardcore in being deliberately blind to the truth as so many on the extreme Left are.

Kudos to Bill for not lying just for the sake of being against what is true.

11 posted on 08/04/2014 11:13:36 AM PDT by PATRIOT1876
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To: PATRIOT1876

Bill knows who pays his salary. That’s the only reason he is doing this,


12 posted on 08/04/2014 11:29:41 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (GM is dead and Al Queada is alive.)
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To: Kaslin

Israel is a nation that is basically founded on a religion. One would think that Maher would hate them.


13 posted on 08/04/2014 11:51:27 AM PDT by Rockpile
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To: jsanders2001

One of the most impassioned and well-argued defenses of Israel I’ve ever heard was given on the radio by Liberal Law Professor Alan Dershowitz a couple of weeks ago.


14 posted on 08/04/2014 12:21:10 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: jsanders2001

Maher’s mother is Jewish. So he’s Jewish.


15 posted on 08/21/2014 4:58:26 AM PDT by Borges
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To: Borges

> Maher’s mother is Jewish. So he’s Jewish.

Explains the schnoz


16 posted on 08/21/2014 5:03:02 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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