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Date Posted: 21:47:34 09/19/01 Wed
Greetings...I thought all of our community should know this...This is a man that is firmly part of the left wing (anti-military) establishment and could be a socialist/communist...All of this in our time of need as some force has killed our citizens...What a guy! Read on! Eric :)
Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2001
ABC's Vile Bill Maher Calls U.S. Military Cowardly
The evil-tongued Bill Maher is finally getting his comeuppance.
Maher, all too often the chief dunce of political correctness on ABC's hypocritically named "Politically Incorrect," has finally ticked off his advertisers, this time by insulting our men and women in uniform.
"We have been the cowards, lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away," he said during a rant against the U.S. military. "That's cowardly."
He expressed his admiration for the terrorists who slammed hijacked airliners into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, killing thousands of Americans.
"Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly," the schlock show host said.
Federal Express and Sears have yanked their ads from the late-night show.
"Sears took this action after reviewing a transcript of the September 17 conversation among Maher and his guests in which the U.S. military was described as cowardly," the retailer said in a statement today.
After receiving a flood of complaints from around the country, Federal Express did likewise.
It's about time. For some reason advertisers didn't seem to mind when Maher "joked" about Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris being murdered or compared retarded children to dogs.
Maher made his comments after Dinesh D'Souza, a panelist on Monday's program, disputed President Bush's reference to the terrorists as cowards.
"These are warriors," D'Souza claimed, "and we have to realize that the principles of our way of life are in conflict with people in the world."
Radio host and station general manager Dan Patrick told the Houston Chronicle: "I was just appalled. When you call our men in the [armed forces] cowards and our military policy cowardly, and when you call these hijackers 'warriors,' that should not be tolerated."
"The First Amendment gives us the freedom of speech, but it does not guarantee anyone a TV show or a TV camera or a radio show, for that matter," Patrick said. "If Bill Maher believes that Americans are cowards and hijackers are warriors, let him go out on the street corner and shout that. But Disney does not have to give him a TV show and Channel 13 does not have to air that show."
ABC issued a statement saying that Maher's show "celebrates freedom of speech and encourages the animated exchange of ideas and opinions. Understandably, this forum can oftentimes arouse intense emotions, especially during such a sensitive time."
"While we remain sensitive to the current climate following last week's tragedy, and continue to do our part to help viewers cope with unfolding events, we have an obligation to offer a forum for the expression of our nation's diverse opinions."
So why not express your diverse opinions to ABC? E-mail: netaudr@abc.com.
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