Despite Calling America Cowards After 9/11 for Using Cruise Missiles Bill Maher Now Loves Predator Drones
There really is no limit to the hypocrisy of Bill Maher.
Despite having gotten fired by ABC shortly after the 9/11 attacks for calling America cowards due to our use of long-range cruise missiles, the host of HBO's Real Time on Friday raved about President Obama's deployment of unmanned predator drones to kill people from thousands of miles away (video follows with transcript and commentary):
BILL MAHER, HOST: Since 2005, I think, the number of drone missions has gone up by something like 1200 percent, and for good reason. You know, we can do it a lot cheaper. It’s cheaper, we can get closer to the target and therefore kill less civilians. They can stay up longer. I'm sold. I'm going down to the dealership tomorrow. I'm hoping they have a hybrid.
JOSHUA GREEN, BLOOMBERG: It was apparently a drone that got Gaddafi, or got Gaddafi’s convoy and sent him scurrying, scurrying into a hole.
MAHER: And I’ve heard people say, “Well, this is not good because, you know, this is like a video game.” Good. Why is that a bad thing that it’s like a video game? I don’t understand why it’s a bad thing. I know the argument is, “Well, you know, it makes us more likely to go to war if we don't have to, you know, risk our troops.” How could we be more likely to go to war than we've already been?
So when a President that he likes is killing our enemies from thousands of miles away, that's just fine.
But days after our nation was attacked on September 11, 2001, Maher thought we were cowards for using cruise missiles while our enemies were the courageous ones:
MAHER DAYS AFTER 9/11: We have been the cowards. Lobbing cruise missiles from two thousand miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building. Say what you want about it. Not cowardly.
When he contradicts himself this way, do the heads of HBO and parent company Time Warner care?
Or is all fair in love, war, and ratings?
As for Maher, you have to wonder whether he actually remembers what he says from one day to the next.
In a July installment of Real Time, he completely misrepresented this entire episode from 2001.
And people like him say pot doesn't cause brain damage.
Quite the contrary, he appears to be walking proof it most certainly does.
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Hypocrite
"There really is no limit to the hypocrisy of Bill Maher."
There really is no limit to the hypocrisy of the entire left wing.
This left wing dolt has the audacity to call someone a coward?
I'm not sure if this clown truly knows how much of an a$$ he makes of himself. He's nothing more than a middle aged man who without his garbage spewing vitriol would be nothing more than a habitual peeper on the city streets.
Maher is a coward. He sits in
Maher is a coward. He sits in front of a TV camera and denigrates people and our country. He never says these despicable things to people's faces. He's a lousy chicken-$#!$ coward.
I agree
One tune-up of Maher by someone's husband after he made disgusting sexist comments about someone's wife, as he does about people like Michelle Malkin and Sarah Palin, and I guarantee he would end that "feature" of the show.
end of 2002 we had some 300 Predator Drones. As of 2008 we had
BILL MAHER Delta Whiskey., HOST: Since 2005, I think, the number of drone missions has gone up by something like 1200 percent, and for good reason. You know, we can do it a lot cheaper. It’s cheaper, we can get closer to the target and therefore kill less civilians. They can stay up longer. I'm sold. I'm going down to the dealership tomorrow. I'm hoping they have a hybrid.
Drone missions have gone up because we have more drones thanks to Bush. It was Bush who authorized arming drones in June2001, in June2001 we had a total of 40 operational unarmed Predator Drones. After 911 Bush went all in on the drone program by the end of 2002 we had some 300 Predator Drones. As of 2008 we had nearly 7000 drones of all kinds.
More real info here!
http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/dangerroom/files/Wolski.pdf
DoD UAS Overview
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/02/drone-surge-pre/
imagine this Bill Delta Whiskey MAHER in his usual ignate self is praising Bush and doesn't even know it
Well, it's a sure thing that
Well, it's a sure thing that Donkeyface loves the drone missles when his 'black' man-crush Boy Barry is using them. I'm not sure what he felt about them before then. And I'd be willing to bet that Obama doesn't have a whole lot of say so as to what goes on with the drones anyway, as well as most any of the other foreign policy events that might have made him 'look good' for a couple of days.............it's probably more the case that the military, or CIA, or whoever else is on top of these things, is telling Barry what is going on and how things are being done.
What war?!
MAHER: " I know the argument is, “Well, you know, it makes us more likely to go to war if we don't have to, you know, risk our troops.” How could we be more likely to go to war than we've already been?"
Maher needs to stay up on the news more. We have not been at war in Libya. The President told the Congress that is was a humanitarian mission. And we have 100 US Special Forces troops deployed to Central Africa on another humanitarian mission.
In fact, Obama has done more to make war obsolete than anything since the Kellogg-Briand Pact. No more war. We only conduct humanitarian missions -- principally with cruise missiles and weapons launched from Predator UAVs.
If Bush were still POTUS...
...Maher would be calling for him to be sent to the Hague for war crimes and more. The more I read about comedians and celebrities in general, the more I get to know their tendency towards severe forms of major depression and arc towards bipolarity. Bipolarity among famous comics is not unknown, as recognized in the biographies of Jonathan Winters and Robin Williams. As I stated in posts before, an APA session several years ago dealt with the aberrant behavior of celebrities. The common subtypes of mood disorders and personality disorders was not only fascinating, but illuminating of show business in general.
So, basically, what asshats
So, basically, what asshats like Mahrer are saying is, "I didn't really believe anything I was saying, but I was willing to undermine the US and her troops because I'm a partisan jerkoff that just didn't like that guy Bush." Got it, thanks Bill, unlike you, I'll remember that.
Maher is a clown
although I am sure the clowns are offended by that comparison. The Hellfire also has a large,
unprejudiced kill zone so lots of unintended people are also killed or maimed.
Yet, while we are roiling hatred towards our country with these merciless attacks, the left and media
jackals pretend "the world loves us." Yeah, right.......................did Libya just go radical?
Nice job.
Bwahahahahahahah
He don't mind da Thuggery....as long as his guy is do'n da Thug'n
roflmao
Racist much, Bill?
Don't forget, Bill Maher likes thuggery from a black president. That's what he thinks a black president should be.
Maher is the single reason...
...I refuse to take HBO. I wonder how many other prospective customers HBO has lost because of this despicable swine?
They lost me over this clown.
They lost me over this clown.
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My guess is that HBO is doing
My guess is that HBO is doing quite well despite your boycot.
I suspect we are all doing even better...
...without HBO.
Speak for yourself. I love
Speak for yourself. I love HBO.
HBO programming
What is it you love so much about HBO? They add basically one new movie per week and chances are it's been out on dvd for awhile or it's some animated kids movie I have no interest in. As for original programming, other than curb your enthusiasm (which is done now) and eastbound and down, I didn't find much I really cared to see which is why I finally cancelled it. Almost every show has some kind of liberal slant to it---even RealSports which can be good, but Bryant Gum Ball can't resist throwing in political opinion to sports stories.
Well in turn speak for yourself I don't love HBO.
See how that works? I definitely don't like that liberal garb as much as you like it here on our conservative blog embarrassing yourself on a constant basis.
And my guess is that KyWriter
And my guess is that KyWriter is doing quite well despite your comment.
So what?
The bad joke teller
has himself become the bad joke.
Warning!
This is your brain on drugs, kiddies. Bill Maher thinks like the plant he smokes. That's why we need to take the vote away from dopers. If you are too mentally impaired to live in reality you are too impaired to vote for a real world.
To more fully comprehend the Left, one must read “Leftism As Psychopathy” by John Ray, M.A., Ph.D. Caution, it might scare you a little bit.
http://jonjayray.tripod.com/psycho.html