American Life League is calling for the immediate firing of Bill Maher, and so am I!
Watch the video, and see if you agree…
Would this liberal nitwit have been let off the hook by the media had he called Alah or an African-American a name like that?
Comments like that literally cause wars in MANY cultures!
We most certainly have free speech in the US, but that never absolves someone of the responsibility of what they write or say, unless of course you’re a Clinton…
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It is called cable, sir. Not to mention the freedom of speech, freedom is sometimes offensive, but I’ll deal with it, because freedom is always more important than whether or not I am offended by the remarks of another. It is true that the current Pope did in fact belong to the Nazi youth group and it is also true that he reigns over the Catholic church and yet believes that his priests are somehow above the law. Bill Maher’s points were strictly a form of social commentary.
Thanks for posting the clip. Hilarious!
I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent.
-Thomas Jefferson, letter to Francis Hopkinson, March 13, 1789
Factually, Maher is accurate. Pope Benedict was a member of Hitler Youth and in the Nazi German Army…although I would agree that the Pope was from all accounts against the philosophy of Nazism. I don’t think he calls him a pedophile but does say that Pope Benedict tried to cover the tracks of others. Maher would definitely show me evidence to prove that. I don’t think he should be fired unless there was something more.
There’s a big difference between being born in Nazi occupied Germany and being a Nazi. All children attended Nazi-owned schools at the times which made them ‘Hitler Youth’, but not Nazis. Ratzlinger never hurt a fly and has lived a life above reproach and undeserving of any such hate speech. Maher should be fired. None of us could get away with this at our own job or our own churches. Society at large should tolerate no less.
Since it is pay TV though, I think the best course is to punish those who fund him and promote him- HBO. IMUS, Greaseman, and Howard Stern were not afforded any better treatment when they went over the line.
Maher went way way over the line this time.
I think Benedict can handle it.
Mr. Maher has hurt many peoples feelings by this vile and treacherous hate speech. His comment embodies all the sterotypes that Jews have been defending against for years. He has indicted all Jews and outraged Jew and Gentile alike.
We have cancelled our subscription to HBO and will not renew it till an apology has been issued or his resignation.
Indeed this is not provocative sensational political and social commentary but simply and attempt to generate publicity by defiling a Holy man and 67 million of his followers here in the United States.
Congratulations Mr. Maher, you got our attention.
Kevin is right, he was a Hitler youth, and priests WERE moved around for decades, abusing kids. Ok Fire Mahar, IF, every priest accused of molestation goes to trial right now, any priest suspected of molestation is suspended indefinitely and trial proceedings start…is it a deal?
Great find Eric! I’ve hated on Maher for years. He’s not funny just like Nancy Grace isn’t pretty. There’s a giant line between free speech and hate speech and this guy leaped over it.
I believe Maher is right and Benedict must pardon him, as the Bible says. Moreover, if Benedict pardon pedophyles, why not Maher? You can´t forget he is a humorist talking about serious business. Instead of cancelling your suscription to HBO, spend some energy calling to the Vatican and asking for some apology about children molestation. Thousands of innocent kids around the world have been abused by priests!
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I absolutely agree that freedom of speech is very important, however I feel that if we are not to say anything that would offend the Muslim community, we are also not to say anything that would offend any other religion. Christianity and Catholicism specifically have become the safe haven for those who want to criticize religion. It is not acceptable.
What you can say at home, should stay at home. There are some things that just aren’t appropriate or insensitive to the public. Remember that we are what provides their income. We aren’t the ones they should be trying to offend.
Meh, it’s Bill Maher, guys. Just ignore him.
And if I recall correctly, it was a couple years ago when Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity were defending the guy for something he said…
“Liberal talk show host Bill Maher, whose controversial comments about the pope drew fire from the Catholic community, is planning to apologize Friday night for falsely accusing Pope Benedict XVI of being a Nazi, the Catholic League announced Thursday.”
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200804/CUL20080417b.html
The Pope is doing what he can to atone for his church’s past. This is a heck of an acknowlegement.
http://www.topix.com/us/2008/04/pope-prays-with-victims-of-clergy-sex-abuse-scandal
I can’t believe that there are people on here who agree with Maher and are calling what he says “Factual” There wasn’t a word of fact in it. The Pope was never a Nazi. He was a member of the Nazi Youth, which was mandatory for all boys and girls in Germany then. The Catholic Church is not a pedophilic cult, since less than half of one percent of the priests in the country havew been accused of anything, and since the majority of those are false accusations brought on by idiots with grudges against the church. Maher should be fired immediately and should issue an apology.
I believe Maher’s slanderous comments were far beyond the line of decency and humanity, but it is definitely weird to see a non-Catholic, Mr. Martin, posting this video around in so many places (blogs, YouTube, etc.). If you did not work for American Life League, would you be so concerned about this issue?
Susie, Bill Maher was a miserable liberal hatemonger long before I got on board. A lot of people who fight for causes are not directly a part of them. I walked and raised thousands for ‘Race for the Cure’ breast cancer awareness for example, and I donate time and resources to the homeless shelter, but am neither female, nor homeless.
Maher should be removed for many reasons that have nothing to do with his anti-Catholic hatred. Namely, he tarneshes Time-Warner with every breath and violates their company policy on decency, community value, integrity and many others.
As a capitalist I see that it has the potential to hurt the share prices, which loses money for investors, which makes fewer dollars to buy things with, which contributes to slowing the economy! So there’s a perfectly non-religious reason to FIRE BILL MAHER (albeit a stretch).
As a human, through the strength of suggestion via television, I see him having a little too much power over people’s free will as he poisons the pool of intelligent conversation with his biased topics and control of the dialog. Surely everyone does it, but not everyone takes it to his level. When they come close- guess what? They get fired (Howard Stern, Imus, Greaseman, and countless Radio & TV hosts in the past.) Maher’s time is up.
Furthermore, if Time-Warner continues to allow it, there are tens of millions of Catholics AND people like me, who may feel no use whatsoever for HBO anymore, and they may go the way of many other unscrupulous mega-companies like Enron, Worldcomm, Tyco and so on. Clinton was nearly impeached by an intern. Al Capone was taken down for tax evasion.
Heck, HBO took off the Sopranos, so what good are they now? John Adams only lasted a week!
Maher has done far worse, and doesn’t have the decency or survival instinct to shut up about it. What good does he do anyone as a constant basher of religion? For some people, that’s all they have to hold on to in this economy especially. His liberal friends like Obama and Hillary certainly have no solutions but to TAX US MORE, so again, what does Maher do for us? Entertain? Hardly.
This isn’t the first effort to get him removed, but it may well be the last one.
Maher is too much of a dope to even apologize to save his own butt— even a chicken knows to come in from the rain.
Well said Eric Martin. Maher deserves to get fired pronto….he’s been playing with fire for too long. He has wasted enough airtime.
Was it not also Benjamin Franklin who once said that, “Any fool can ridicule, critisize and
condemn, and most fools do.”