CENSORSHIP Bill Maher

[barbara100 at jps.net]

When I think of an ideal mate, I oftentimes think of Bill Maher. He's a wee
misogynistic, but I still *love* him. He's got the balls to say what so many
of us think but never dare. That's why Pynchon turns me on too.  I just love
their cynicism: they're so real, so wise; brutally honest with themselves
and others; and nothing (nothing!) is  off-limits.  They're  the kind of men
a girl could really respect.



CENSORSHIP AFTER 9/11: THE BILL MAHER 'COWARD' COMMENT

[...]
> Maher used his opening monologue, then, to reestablish the basis of his
> program - the bringing together of diverse celebrities who exchange
> different views that often go against the grain of current thinking.

[...]

> "First of all, you have a whole bunch of guys who are willing to give
> their life. None of 'em backed out. All of them slammed themselves into
> pieces of concrete . . . These are warriors. And we have to realize that
> the principles of our way of life are in conflict with people in the
> world . . . "
[...]

> To this, Maher replied: "But also, we should -- we have been the cowards
> lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly."
>
> Another guest, columnist Arianna Huffington, agreed: "Let us not forget
> how many innocent civilians we killed when we bombed Yugoslavia to
> rubble, because we did not want to have a single American soldier die.
> And now we have over 5,000 innocent civilians die because we were
> cowardly when it came to our military personnel."
>
> A final way to make a point in the United States is to turn to that
> pillar of grassroots democracy, the Internet petition, and this is what
> supporters of Bill Maher have done. By now  many thousands have
> submitted  their names to the list at
> http://www4.PetitionOnline.com/promaher/petition.html to stop ABC from
> cancelling "Politically Incorrect."
> [...]