Politically Incorrect or political suicide?

[Mensa]

Seems Bill Maher, the host of "Politically Incorrect", is trying to do damage control. Some sponsors of the show have withdrawn their support after he ran off at the mouth again. Seems he felt the U.S. using cruise missiles was "cowardly" but that the terrorists who hijacked those commuter jets and flew them into the WTC and the Pentagon showed "courage". How murdering thousands of innocent civilians is courageous is beyond me, but he seems to think so.

I'm glad others are finally seeing this person for the cretin he truly is. The network is even re-evaluating whether to keep the show. If they decide to keep it I hope they at least get a new host and put this prick out to pasture!

 

[miles]

I enjoyed his show when it was on the Comedy Channel, but he's become an arrogant little twit. It's also very annoying watching five minutes of commercials every seven minutes.

Sit down, Bill.

 

[morninggirl5]

His show has been pulled by the ABC affiliate in DC and the President responded to an editorial in the Washington Post saying he was proud of the decision to pull the show.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43808-2001Sep29.html


I never watched the show, he came across as the ultimate vulture.

 

[Problem Child]

If they could just keep the four guests and get rid of him it wouldn't be a bad show.

 

[shadowsource]

Ari Fleischer's own mouth!

I don't care what Maher said. It was an arguable point as he addressed the same question of "courage" that we battled over on this board. I, too, think calling the 9/11 killers "cowards" is sticks 'n stones trash talking that ignores their display of fortitude. We just don't like what they were DOING. May our troops display such commitment, while respecting the lives of the innocent.

More interesting to me is what Presidential spokesman Ari Fleischer said - and how the White House altered the text when they printed his remarks. Fleischer said that people have to "watch what they say and watch what they do." This was changed to "watch what they do" in the White House transcript of the press conference. Anyone wondering why?

Maher is entitled to say what he wants. he didn't say the terrorists were not terrorists, or that they were justified in killing everyone. He debated the meaning of the word courage, which incidentally supports his and my point of view. And many Republicans similarly denounced Clinton's cruise missile strike against bin Laden at that time.

Nor did he threaten anyone's First Amendment rights.
And before some idiot accuses me of Bush bashing, I hasten to add that I'm gratified that the White House saw it necessary to censor what Fleischer had said, even if it did so surreptitiously.

 

[Tabby432]

Seems he felt the U.S. using cruise missiles was "cowardly" but that the terrorists who hijacked those commuter jets and flew them into the WTC and the Pentagon showed "courage".

I didn't see the show but for what it's worth it does take courage to knowingly kill yourself for what you believe in. And while I would never use the word cowardly for our military, cruise missiles are "relatively" safe in comparison.

 

[Mensa]

I beg to differ

Had they taken a private plane, given some advance warning to allow the evacuation of the targets, and blown only themselves to smithereens, then, perhaps, that might indicate a certain level of bravery. But hijacking a commercial flight containing innocent civilians, giving no warnings whatsoever, and flying directly into a crowded office tower indicates a callous diregard for all human life and is not noble in any way, shape, or form!

Had they gone for pure symbolism rather than mass murder, you might have a point!

 

[MissTaken]

~nods head toward Mensa~

These were not courgeous acts. Courage is the ability to be afraid and still face the fear. However, these men were brainwashed into thinking they were being rewarded for their deed. They had no fear.

The courageous man would have made even a modicum of an attempt to save innocent lives.

 

[Problem Child]

Although I don't think it was "cowardly" to launch those cruise missiles toward Bin Laden's camp and the aspirin factory, it was a tremendous waste of taxpayers money, not to mention an embarrassingly transparent attempt to divert attention from the then-President's embarrassing legal predicament. If we had really wanted to get him we would have had people camped out there like we're doing now.

It also pointed out the point to which our intelligence capability has degraded since Viet Nam and the height of the cold war. Seriously...we've been after this guy since what...1993? Either he's the wiliest motherfucker on earth, or we seriously need to tighten our shit up.

I have a feeling it's the latter.

 

[*bratcat*]

this is what I said...