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Sat Mar-03-07 10:57 PM
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RW Beating the Drums Against Bill Maher's Remarks Cheney Attempt |
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Sorry - can't seem to highlight the text from their site to paste. Of course Drudgie has the story linked. Looks like their talking point next week to cover the skinny bony ass of Coulter for her hatred to Edwards and other Dems and liberals. http://newsbusters.org/stories/maher_sorry_cheney_assasination_attempt_failed.html
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Sat Mar-03-07 11:03 PM
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1. Edited for knee jerk response. Missed context, just got fed up with clicking on RW |
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Edited on Sat Mar-03-07 11:05 PM by BleedingHeartPatriot
links.
:pals: MKJ
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Sat Mar-03-07 11:04 PM
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2. haha....as soon as he said it, I was reminded he got FIRED from ABC |
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for saying merely that the 911 highjackers weren't cowards
it's going to be interesting to see how he deals with that little slip, which it clearly was.
I hope he doesn't back down.
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Sat Mar-03-07 11:08 PM
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3. Wouldn't That Be Ironic |
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if after all the talk about freedom of speech Maher were fired for that?
Give me a break, I'm not saying I agree with what he said, or that it was right but he was making a point.
I really don't understand why these terrorists would WANT to kill Cheney. Wouldn't that A. Make Cheney a matryr in the eyes of many Americans who aren't crazy about him now and B. Give the administration more justification for the escalation.
I would be quite pissed if Cheney got killed by a suicide bomber. And the more I think about it, Maher was wrong - more people would die if Cheney were killed by a terrorist, because the administration would not temper their thirst for vengence with mercy, or even logic.
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Sat Mar-03-07 11:08 PM
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4. let's see if I captured it |
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Maher: But I have zero doubt that if Dick Cheney was not in power, people wouldn’t be dying needlessly tomorrow. (applause)
Scarborough: If someone on this panel said that they wished that Dick Cheney had been blown up, and you didn’t say…
Frank: I think he did.
Scarborough: Okay. Did you say…
Maher: No, no. I quoted that.
Frank: You don’t believe that?
Maher: I’m just saying if he did die, other people, more people would live. That’s a fact.
Wake up, HBO: one of your hosts said the world would be a safer place if the Vice President of the United States of America had been assassinated.
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That last sentence was from the RW rag.
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Gabi Hayes
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Sat Mar-03-07 11:12 PM
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7. this will morph into: "Bill Maher calls for the assassination of Dick Cheney" |
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wait and see
they're already twisting what he said in that loathsome article
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Sat Mar-03-07 11:13 PM
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9. He said "died", not assassinated |
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There's a difference.
If Cheney DID keel over dead ten minutes from now, from a heart attack, things will be different, probably in a good way.
If Cheney HAD keeled over, say, five years ago, the world would also be a different place, also probably better.
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Sat Mar-03-07 11:10 PM
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Sat Mar-03-07 11:12 PM
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WiseButAngrySara
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Sat Mar-03-07 11:23 PM
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14. Had to have been a mis-post! Probably responding to one |
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of the thousands of threads on Coultergeist...
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Sat Mar-03-07 11:12 PM
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8. newsbusters? Ugh. The only people that will complain about what |
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Maher said are in the minority. I don't think Maher has anything to worry about. I hope?
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Sat Mar-03-07 11:16 PM
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10. But the truth of the matter is that the world is worse off for both bush* and cheney having been |
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Edited on Sat Mar-03-07 11:23 PM by TankLV
born.
That's just simply a fact.
Just like the world was worse off-for Hitler having been born.
In fact, that statement could be said for too many repukes...
Prescott should not have had children, the world would be a better place - or maybe somebody WORSE would have filled the vacuum - I think "The Outer Limits" did a show on the subject - or was it The "Twilight Zone"...
Now, if someone were to say that now that they were born, the logical (forbidden) statement would also be true...but it is forbidden to say that mere THOUGHT here...
Yet, Mann Coulter, Pat Robertson, Jerry Fartwell, and the Oxycontin King is allowed to actually call for the DEATH of Democrats BY NAME - and not to mince words...and the silence is still DEAFENING!
I totally agree with what he said, without hesitation...
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Sat Mar-03-07 11:18 PM
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11. But it is alright to actually call for the death of Democrats... |
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and demean them?!? :wtf:
WHERE THE HELL ARE THE WEALTHY DEMOCRATS TO BUILD OUR ECHO CHAMBER?
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Sat Mar-03-07 11:20 PM
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12. Aparently, it is just fine... |
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considering the deafening silence...
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Sat Mar-03-07 11:21 PM
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13. I agree with what he said |
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Edited on Sat Mar-03-07 11:22 PM by ProudDad
about cheney, there would be a lot more innocent people alive today if cheney were dead.
I also agreed with his statement that it was a more "cowardly act" to drop bombs on innocents from 20,000 feet than it was to fly an airplane into a building.
You're either for free speech or you're agin' it...
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Sat Mar-03-07 11:26 PM
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15. I agree with both statement s also. Then and now. Facts are facts. ...n/t |
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