The compassionate left at work.  Maher -  isn't that liberalese for Mayan?  

Liberals are such hypocrites. On the one hand they are outraged by the comments of Anne Coulter ( I am not defending Anne) and on the other there is a deafening silence when one of their own says that VP Cheney should be dead. Can you hear me screaming?

As a sidebar to this, I find Scarborough's (apparent) passivity to Maher's comments interesting.

Whenever O'Reilly makes a critical comment about MSNBC, Scarborough is quite animated.

Here we have someone implicitly wishing for Cheney's death (because, somehow, according to this loathsome and twisted Bill Maher, it's "a fact" that more people would live were he not alive) and good old Joe just sits there.

Which is more of an outrage, really? That Maher is a punk? Or that Scarborough silently allows him to be one?

I have little need for bomb-throwers like Maher or Coulter these days, and I sit on the fence regarding the Queen of the Hufftards because she did apparently try to do the responsible thing and remove SOME of the Cheney-should-be-dead comments (but, somehow, dozens remained), but then tried to turn that into ammunition to pull a "poor-me" defense when the Right-Wing "attack machine" rightfully attacked her Left-Wing attack machine.

Niggardly (and David Howard had to resign in 1999); Water Buffalo, and student Eden Jacobowitz was charged with violating Penn's racial harassment policy in 1993; Macaca, and Senator George Allen lost his re-election bid in 2006; Kill VP Cheney, and the audience applauds Bill Maher in 2007. Except for the 2007 Bill Maher case, the press went nuts and we had to suffer weeks and months of commentary, righeous indignation, and holier-than-though pronouncements from the MSM, left-wing nuts, and civil rights organizations.

Have we lost all ability to apply reason and traditional values in this country? Can no one actually see the prepostorous differences in these events? Can no one tell these people to finally shut up and stick it up your a$$?

What's wrong with this picture? We all need to stand at our windows and shout "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore".

I personally don't believe that this suicide bombing was an assassination attempt. The bomber did not get onto the base. And Mr. Cheney was never in any danger. I believe that whoever ordered and/or planned the bombing simply took credit for it being an assassination attempt after the fact. In fact, it's still in doubt whether such a claim was made at all.  And the likes of Bill Maher may as well be complicit.

Bill Maher what a guy! HBO, the network for all hate speech and one liners has allowed this guy for too long to stay on their network. The guy's seriously "teched" in the head. Wow, he even knows he can get away with it on HBO. It's his "responsibility" to mutter hate speech about someone he only knows from hateful mentions on Huff n' Puff.

Where's the Secret Service when you need them? The man obviously uttered a threat against our VP and shouldn't get away with it. If a conservative had said such a thing against Clintoon or Whore, all hell would break loose.

When did America start putting up with such men as Maher? He has seriously lost his marbles....he's way over the line. I think it's time to call for a national boycott of HBO and Maher in particular. Tell your friends.

The difficult we do immediately; the impossible takes a little longer.  Air Force Motto

emjem says: When your brain's stuck on liberalism it self-destructs.

The comments on this thread say it so well.  He is an ignorant piece of shite, period.  What would happen to me if I had wished the same things for a Democrat Vice President or President?  The tolerance of evil and hate from the Left is unreal.  Go to Hell, Maher and your fellow unAmerican Hoodlums!!!  F you.  Pog ma thoin. 

"He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere"          -Ali ibn-Abi-Talib, 4th Islamic Caliph

For all the pseudo-intellectual ranting Maher does, he is and always will be an unfunny coward who isn't worth his weight in day-old smegma

Liberal: a power worshipper without power. George Orwell

Maher proves himself to be a fool once again. The overabundance of ignorance, arrogance, vitriol and hatred that spews forth from his mouth astounds me.

Maher wasn't "Let GO" for saying what he said. It wasn’t that bad.

He was let go for being "Dumb".

Anyone with a IQ greater that 95 would know you shouldn't say what he said right after 9/11.

I think Bill Maher's mindless statement is yet another indication (as if we needed any more) of just how far we have sunk as a society and as a nation. I first noticed the childish disrespect of the lefties during the Reagan years. I recall reading and hearing statements by them about the 40th President that made me cringe. What we have going on now has progressed (regressed?) to something far, far worse.

Though only a teenager at the time, I do not recall anyone suggesting that Jimmy Carter should be assassinated, not even in some form of sick jest. I do not recall anyone calling for the assassination of Bill Clinton or Al Gore during the time they were in office, either. Sure, there were those that severely disliked Clinton and Gore, and I was one of them, but to call for or agree with the idea of assassinating them never even entered my mind.

As I was reading over the comments posted by the huffers about the attempt on Dick Cheney's life, I was struck by just how low this country has fallen in the last thirty or so years. Could you imagine this kind of thing taking place in WW II? Do you think that people who would go along with the assassination of Roosevelt or Truman would have been tolerated? My guess is that they would have been dealt with quite harshly right there on the spot.

We now have a sizeable percentage of the population that appears to be un-willing to fight for this country's very survival, or even to support those (our brave soldiers) who are willing to. There also appears to be a surorising number of people in this country who actually seem to want us to lose not just in Iraq, but the WOT. This is nothing less than insanity.

No, I'm not High.  :-)

When, oh when will we get serious about these liberals and their seditious statments and acts?  It's time to put sh!t like Maher behind bars to show the rest of the Anti-american leftists that we won't stand for such talk.  This is not freedom of speech, this is sedition plain and simple.  If A Democrat becomes President, millions of Americans will die.  Unfortunatley, we can't be sure they will just be Liberal Americans that are killed!

At the end of the video, Bill Maher spoke about the 'documentary' that seeks to say that Jesus' bones were found, that He was married, etc. Bill Maher asked, in so many words, why such a story would take away from who Jesus is to Christians. Bill Maher is truly a lost soul. He has gone beyond being a fool, into a truly lost soul. He does not realize that Jesus having risen from the dead, is what proved that He is The Christ, that He is God.

Holy crap. I have to read the initial captions a bit more closely. I didn't know barney the perv was going to be on the video and there he was, a frickin' close up no less, as the video started.

Be warned! (get the barf bag at the ready)

Passion in politics is necessary, but this is a great lesson for for both liberals and conservatives. If your passion turns into hate, Bill Maher is what you will become.

Sad thing is,,, Mr. Maher is right (Correct) The world would be better off without cheney.

Maher: I’m just saying if he did die, other people, more people would live. That’s a fact.

I've read a lot of comments by the resident Leftists here at NB about this comment.  Many have said that Maher "didn't advocate the assasination of Cheney."  It's very, very difficult to take anything else from this statement.  He clearly does here.  In other words, he is saying that things would be a lot better because "other people would live."

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Bill Maher, you use a weak argument for Barney Frank's unamerican comment.  You asked, "This isn't China, shouldn't you be able to say that"? 

If fact, you can say whatever you want.  What you want though is unrealistic.  You can say whatever you want but there will be consequences to what you say.  You want to say treasonous and murderous things about our elected officials yet think you have the right to expect no retaliation.  Your downfall will be hard.  I have a suggestion which you will say is old but it is the best thing for all of us.  Move to another country.  You don't love the United States and the United States doesn't need traitors like you spewing your filth during time of war when our proud and professional soldiers are being blown to bits by cowards or shot by snipers who are afraid to come out and fight. 

Maher is a hater, pure and simple, along the lines of Al Franken and other creepy leftists. Maher obviously hates his father, America, and religious conservatives in a fashion which prevents him from talking about subjects related to his hate fetishes without his metaphorically frothing at the mouth.

The problem with ultra-leftists is that their bankrupt philosophy is based on class hatred and hatred of the nuclear family and extrapolated onto all authority figures. Psychology Today readers know the syndrome and Maher/Franken have gone over the borderline from satire to bitterness and then into the next phase, sheer hatred.

I can remember when Maher and Franken were [sometimes] funny. Now they are a pair of predictable bores.

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Maher is using the same tactic Coulter uses to attract attention and it works. Soros once said that Bush's defeat in 2004 was "a matter of life and death!" I called the FBI re: the comment as I feel people with that much media clout should be held accountable for the potential such words carry to similarly leaning folks,who might act on them. I do not see conservatives using such language, but I feel sure the thread will enlighten me. Conservatives tend to be more focused on real life and death issues like abortion and euthenasia, both examples of the death penalty without a trial.