CENSORSHIP Bill Maher

[Otto]

BERLIN (Reuters) - A leading German television anchorman faced calls to
resign from conservative political leaders Wednesday for comparing the
``thought patterns'' of President Bush with Osama bin Laden.
In an article he wrote for the German magazine Max, Wickert quoted Indian
novelist Arundhati Roy saying: ``Osama bin Laden is America's family secret,
the dark lookalike of the American president.''

Wickert added: ``Bush is not a murderer or a terrorist. But the thought
patterns are the same. And Bush and Berlusconi have this in common: they are
both intolerant.''

Angela Merkel, leader of the opposition Christian Democrats (CDU), and other
conservatives said ARD television news reader Ulrich Wickert should be
removed from the state-backed public broadcasting network.

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011004/od/newsreader_dc_1.html


----- Original Message -----
From: Henry Mu <scuffling at hotmail.com>
To: Pynchon List <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 4:49 PM
Subject: RE: CENSORSHIP Bill Maher


The (organized) effort to get him off the air is censorship. Maher isn't
middle-of-the-road, he's all over it. I've never heard of lefty peacenik
types trying to get him fired. It's only in this conservative pre-battle
period that criticism is turning to calls for his head on a pike. I'm
afraid that demands for censorship is one of the first signs of nascent
fascism. God help America.

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₪ Henry Mu