Does Bill Maher Want Vice President Cheney Dead?
Hot Air has a post up that is titled "Shock: Bill Maher says something disgusting about Cheney". Here is a link to the video. Here is the transcript.
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.
Ace 'O Spades covers the topic with the following headline "Bill Maher: Also Sorry Cheney Wasn't Assassinated".
Sorry… I can not make the jump from what he said to he wants the Vice President assasinated. It is just not there. In fact I will go one step further… Bill Maher is right. More people would be alive if Dick Cheney were to die or at least was not part of the executive office of the United States of America. But here is what nobody is saying, those people who would be alive, the vast majority of them would be actively working to kill Americans or at a minimum would prefer to see Americans die and therefore we as Americans are better off with them dead. Thank you Vice President Cheney.
On March 3, 2007 at 9:09 pm, nwbloggers wrote:
Good way to look at it.
On March 4, 2007 at 1:42 am, Leaning Straight Up trackbacked:
Coulter is bad, Maher is ok - Nothing really changes with Liberals…
The outcry has continued against Coulter, and I am not surprised. The left and the right often combine their forces against her when she decides to push the envelope.
But likewise I am unsurprised that the left continues to ignore the outrag…
On March 4, 2007 at 4:03 pm, Red Marilyn wrote:
I used to love to see Ann Coulter and Bill Maher spar with other guests on his old latenight show on broadcast TV. It was usually a good mix of left right and center people, both celebtities and pundits. Outrageous comments usually ensued. Entertaining to the max. Bill Maher, for me, has fallen off the edge of my flat earth. He’s got the gift of the blarney, but he’s been smoking the ganja a bit too long. Ann Coulter, as controversial and outrageous as she is, is still hanging in. If people got as outraged at leftie humorists and pundits as they do righties like Coulter, …well, it’s moot because they don’t. (Example: "humorist" Joy Behar called The Prez and VP "liars and murderers" on her ABC daytime show on broadcast TV last week. Perhaps a bit stronger language that Miss Coulter used).The political correctness of our day stipulates that if you offend anyone in a "favored group du jour " you must hie yourself off to rehab (spelled "re-education center"). By the way, some of the folks most offended by Ann Coulter’s off color "free speech" refer to heterosexuals as "breeders" and "sperm donors". It’s rude, but so what. I don’t want to send them to rehab (re-education centers) for expressing their point of view in their speech. Last time I heard, except for sporting events and NY City speech is still free in this country.I’m rather straight-laced and old fashioned, but my motto is –to paraphrase Texas Guinan (and Bette Midler who used to quote her in her stage act)– "Go forth and multiply" ‘em if you can’t take a joke. (It’s shorter in anglo-saxon).