The program is his. As audience members, they're NOT involved in the round table. Throw the die and pick a number - Murrah Building (ATF knew,) Kennedy assasination, King assassination, Twin Towers ... . I don't appreciate his stand on religion, but it is his show. Maher couldn't kick the butt of a 6 year old.

by Dale Hill (59 articles, 0 quicklinks, 107 diaries, 350 comments) on Sunday, Oct 21, 2007 at 3:22:49 PM

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As someone who is involved weekly in the struggle against major media monopoly of the airwaves, I completely understand why Bill Maher melted down when the subject of 9/11 truth was brought up on his show.  It is the same reason that Art Bell formerly of Coast to Coast AM fame and his successor George Noory tap dance around the issue.  Actually, Art didn't tap dance.  He said outright that anyone who questions the official version of 9/11 was crazy and should be treated thusly.

 Look at who owns the medium upon which these people play.   You don't get on HBO or Clear Channel station by telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.  You don't earn millions of dollars a year and get major book deals for cheesy self-promoting books if you tell the truth.

 Those who press the question of 9/11 truth threaten the future income and position of those who sell their souls to the men in suits.  You must go to alternative media to find it.  We may not be on major TV networks, and we may not have fancy sets and expensive suits, but we don't have to answer to men behind the curtain, either.

Kate Mucci, Producer, Out There TV www.outtheretv.com

by Kate Mucci (8 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 5 comments) on Sunday, Oct 21, 2007 at 4:16:01 PM

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His betrayal is unforgivable.  Our nation lost its soul during the "facilitation" of 9/11 by the Bush/Republicans -- which is increasingly common knowledge ALL OVER THE PLANET and now this airbag babbles like a obediant fascist with a little box on his back.  WAS there a little box on his back?

Maher is all ego and money and always has been.

Who knows, maybe he dates Nancy Pelosi on the side.  Anyway, "flush" goes the historical judgment of Maler.  Too much is at stake (like EVERYTHING) to indulge his sucking up to the elites and pugs. 

Bye, bye, Bill . . .  

Don't call us and we won't call you.

Gutless jerk! 

by W. Christopher Epler (Bill) (291 articles, 59 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 763 comments [44 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Sunday, Oct 21, 2007 at 5:26:45 PM

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Leave Bill alone.  He's trying to do his job; yes he does respect guests on his panel that have different views than him.... but, they are ON HIS PANEL.  Not random hecklers in the audience DISRESPECTING him, his panel and discussions that they have scheduled to discuss.  There is a time and a place people.  If you were doing your job on live television and someone peeved you off by standing up and trying to take control in such a BS way, you just may want to kick their a$$es too.  I know I would.

by JamieRS (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 2 comments) on Sunday, Oct 21, 2007 at 6:07:21 PM

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Do you worship Bill Maher?  Here's why I ask.  You say Bill should be able to say anyone questioning 9/11 is insane and should shut up.

 YET, he won't have anyone on his show who could defend their positions.

 So, then when they show up in the audience, to defend themselves from his baseless attacks . . . you say "leave bill alone"

 This guy makes millions, from people like us.  1/3 of Americans think 9/11 was an inside job.  Bill called us insane.  Yet, he doesn't have the cajones to bring a 9/11 truth researcher onto his show.

 I think Bill's had plenty of breaks, and its time to start asking "why?"  What did Bill promise in order to get all his "breaks."??

by Bill Douglas (69 articles, 2 quicklinks, 11 diaries, 434 comments) on Sunday, Oct 21, 2007 at 6:40:02 PM

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amen

by W. Christopher Epler (Bill) (291 articles, 59 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 763 comments [44 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Sunday, Oct 21, 2007 at 6:46:42 PM

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Sorry, I should have added that I REALLY like your questions about Maher, especially the ones about how did he get all those "breaks"? It isn't sour grapes to ask such questions since  they fall in the same category of why is Nancy Pelosi betraying her office and America so contemptably. SUCH QUESTIONS DESERVE OBJECTIVE ANSWERS. This isn't some bloody "polite" sitcom. We are fighting for your lives, the life our our nation, and the very Earth, and we should be challenging all these traitors to the max! Who gives a rats ass about the guy's "business". I'm worried about our dying planet and Maher is more concered about his "ratings"? We have left the time when you can have it both ways. It's put up or shut up, Bill, and you have put up a textbook Bush/REpublican spinn. To hell with you.

by W. Christopher Epler (Bill) (291 articles, 59 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 763 comments [44 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Sunday, Oct 21, 2007 at 6:56:14 PM

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I was glad Bill threw those mouthy people out of his show.  They were members of the audience, not participants in the show.  This show doesn't have audience participation, and if you think those people were right in addressing their issues in that forum you are horribly wrong.

Maher does not need to address them (the lunatics who shouted during HIS show), but personally, I would have been delighted to see them tasered.  That's right, I went there.  I totally enjoyed watching that guy from UF get tasered because he didn't know his place and security on Bill's show should have tasered that one guy and then tasered the woman and then put the videos on Youtube for my crassless enjoyment. 

Freedom of speech comes with consequences, and those people suffered consequences.  That's all I have to say about that.

by Tim Brosnan (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 6 comments) on Sunday, Oct 21, 2007 at 7:05:23 PM

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your taser there, Tim. The Homeland 'Security' (a euphemism for a word the 'thought' police cautioned against using) has openings, I'm sure. Perhaps I should have said 'Stasi'.

by richard (0 articles, 5 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 1359 comments [399 recommended, 8 rejected]) on Sunday, Oct 21, 2007 at 8:59:48 PM

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Have  you forgotten Maher's courageous stance directly after 911, a stance that got his show cancelled immediately.

He stood on stage, amidst the furor over the events that had occured, in the middle of the war propaganda ramping up, while most around him were calling all muslims cowards and war mongers, and stated simply that, "it takes more courage to fly a plane into a building for your principles than it does sitting five miles in the air dropping bombs on people".

Bill Maher is nobodies stooge or front man and because he does soemthing you conspiracy folks object to you sink to name calling....Get a clue.

by ardee D. (6 articles, 4 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 2377 comments) on Monday, Oct 22, 2007 at 5:20:23 PM

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This poster obviously has some deep issues he's trying to deal with by having other people tasered.

 There are healthier ways for us all to work out our issues.  When America become so thin skinned that people who ask questions, or demand answers that they find "uncomfortable" to the point that the questioners should be tortured with electric shocks . . . then our democracy is near death.

by Bill Douglas (69 articles, 2 quicklinks, 11 diaries, 434 comments) on Sunday, Oct 21, 2007 at 9:55:40 PM

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Scientific Poll: 84% Reject Official 9/11 Story
Only 16% now believe official fable according to New York Times/CBS News poll
Truth Movement has the huge majority of opinion
How will the Bush Cabal react?

Steve Watson & Alex Jones / Prisonplanet.com | October 14 2006

A monumental new scientific opinion poll has emerged which declares that only 16% of people in America now believe the official government explanation of the September 11th 2001 terror attacks.

According to the new New York Times/CBS News poll, only 16% of Americans think the government is telling the truth about 9/11 and the intelligence prior to the attacks:

"Do you think members of the Bush Administration are telling the truth, are mostly telling the truth but hiding something, or are they mostly lying?

Telling the truth 16%

Hiding something 53%

Mostly lying 28%

Not sure 3%"

The 84% figure mirrors other recent polls on the same issue. A Canadian Poll put the figure at 85%. A CNN poll had the figure at 89%. Over 80% supported the stance of Charlie Sheen when he went public with his opinions on 9/11 as an inside job.

by Bill Douglas (69 articles, 2 quicklinks, 11 diaries, 434 comments) on Monday, Oct 22, 2007 at 5:52:10 PM

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You and your fellow friends on here believe that anarchy is the way to go.  This isn't about tasering, it's about manners.  It's about decorum of which you people seem to have none of.  You're saying that it's okay to disrupt proceedings like a Televised debate forum.  You believe it's okay for someone who disagrees with what a person says to be able hijack their show.  NO!  Are you that oblivious to what your original argument was?  If this was a Presidential debate, how long do you think it would have been before Secret Service took the disruptors out of the forum?  Do you think they would have been gentle?  You just don't get it.  And you know what, if they (the disruptive people in the audience) continue with their anarchistic ways, then maybe tasering is what's needed.  That's right, I went there again. 

Learn manners, learn that there is a time and place or suffer the consequences.  If a dog makes on your carpet, wouldn't you discipline him?  Most people say to put their noses in it.  You called tasering torture; are you that naive?  Again, you are not following the bouncing ball.  That guy who was tasered at UF was being hostile and pushed a campus officer, try doing that with a policeman during a routine stop and see what he does to you.  This isn't a Gestapo-like state, but choose your forums better.  Sticking a dog's nose where he makes inside would probably be considered torture by you.  I'm sure that if you went to the pound and got a dog already grown that needed to be retrained, you'd be okay with a smelly home, because that's what you'd have.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, stop yammering about Bill Maher having his show and his guests and get your own damned show.  You guys, especially the nutbag psychotic Ronnny Corvus (this guy does need to be drugged), need to back down and try to get yourselves heard in another type of forum.  One where you can administer the terms and where you have the say-so over what topics will be discussed.  Like it or not, that's how America works. 

So get over it guys, you have the internet so just go out there and convince the American public of "you're version of the truth", but if someone hijacks your show, your forum, your internet - don't get upset.  Don't be hypocrites; allow them to speak.  Personally, after reading the ways that the bashers on here were commenting, I doubt they'd give anyone equal time if they didn't have to.

Peace out!

by Tim Brosnan (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 6 comments) on Tuesday, Oct 23, 2007 at 8:41:16 AM

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Look, there's a time and a place for everything. If he'd had someone on who'd been peddling the official story, then yeah, jump up and make a ruckus for the "truth." But I didn't see any reason to jump up and make a ruckus on that show, with those guests. It's like protesting a beer tax hike at a KKK rally.

So yeah, I don't blame him for wanting them thrown out. I don't know if running offstage to "help" was the greatest idea ever, but if you're trying to run a show and folks in the audience are disrupting it, then I have no problems with their removal, regardless of how just their cause.

by J. Edward Tremlett (24 articles, 0 quicklinks, 100 diaries, 380 comments [54 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Sunday, Oct 21, 2007 at 11:10:36 PM

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Downmelt, perhaps is unaware of Bill Maher's rants against questioning 9/11.  Bill Maher began this by attacking people who question 9/11, calling them "nut bags."

 See the video:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGm3_RltqQg

 Downmelt, if Maher was a real man, or a real showhost, he'd have the architects, engineers, and high level military and intelligence experts who are now saying we've been lied to about 9/11.

Then, he'd argue with them instead of calling 1/3 of Americans who now know 9/11 was likely an inside job "names."

 In a democracy you discuss and debate, you don't NAMECALL, AND THEN TASER PEOPLE WHEN THE PROTEST YOU NAME CALLING THEM.

If Maher isn't hired by the powers that be to stop people from demanding answers to 9/11, he sure acts like it.  How does a mediocre comedian at best get so many "breaks", and then provides the best cover for a criminal admin. who engineered 9/11 to get us into endless oil wars?

Is it coincidence Maher and Mathews rise to power, and are unwilling to demand full answers regarding the events of 9/11 . . . rational minds don't think so.

 Bill Maher worshippers seem to.

by Bill Douglas (69 articles, 2 quicklinks, 11 diaries, 434 comments) on Monday, Oct 22, 2007 at 12:16:03 AM

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Ron, although I agree with you on 9/11, stop hyperventilating for god's sake.

Most of what you said up there has nothing to do with 9/11.  If you want a new investigation, you'll need to stay rational.  These rants like the one above, are like Bill Maher trying to get the GOP states to understand the lunacy of war by insulting them constantly.  It doesn't work.

Stick to 9/11 facts, and you'll get alot farther than just opening your liver to everything and everyone you don't like in the world, and dumping on on Maher, or whoever.

For those concerned about the lies of 9/11, that would like to see rational, and high level military, intelligence, engineering, and architectural experts comments on why the official 9/11 myth is a lie, visit:

ae911Truth.org "Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth" and

Patriotsquestion911.org

by Bill Douglas (69 articles, 2 quicklinks, 11 diaries, 434 comments) on Monday, Oct 22, 2007 at 4:13:16 AM

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Is this guy for real?  Have you heard of ritalin buddy?  You might want to try it sometime and chill or else someone like me just may take you up on one of your sadistic offers and turn the tables on you.  You'd like that, wouldn't you? 

by Tim Brosnan (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 6 comments) on Tuesday, Oct 23, 2007 at 8:57:26 AM

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First, i think you need to watch the clip again. In both instances Bill says that he wants to "kick their ass out of here". Your article and bashing of Bill is based on his want to "kick their ass" and by ommiting "out of here" you are really basing your argument on a quote taken out of context. If you want to bash Bill, make sure you are factually correct first.

Next, there is a time and place for everything. Bill was having a debate with guests on his show about evolution. It was extremely disrespecful for an audience memeber to interrupt that discussion by shouting out questions that were not even on topic. I'm all for a civil debate on any topic, but it really undercuts the message and questions that these people are trying to raise when they resort to tactics like these. If you want people to take your argument seriously, you need to present it in a more respectful manner.

I believe the people should have been removed, becuase they were part of Bill's audience and he has every right to want an orderly show.

by tvl (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 5 comments) on Monday, Oct 22, 2007 at 10:48:24 AM

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Since you have no concept of facts, not much else you said is of consequence.  Kind of like Bill Maher slamming 9/11 truth seekers, when he himself has his horribly skewed and pathetically deficient non-understanding of what happened on 9/11 as his only point.

 What Bill Maher told his audience members decrying Bill Maher's ignorance and lack of curiousity for how WTC Building 7 collapsed, was:

"or do I have to come over and kick this guys ass . . ."
 -- Bill Maher

"Yeah, don't be gentle with them -- ass kicking is what's called for . . ."
 -- Bill Maher speaking to his security dragging the 9/11 questioners out

by Bill Douglas (69 articles, 2 quicklinks, 11 diaries, 434 comments) on Monday, Oct 22, 2007 at 1:06:55 PM

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you did it again, instead of saying "kick his ass..." why don't you include the whole quote. "kick his ass out of here." There is a huge difference between wanting to phsically kick someone's ass and have someone removed from a building becuase they are disrupting a taping. Your argument against Bill Maher (based on this incident) is him wanting to be physically violent towards a man and a woman in the audience and it is simply not true.

by tvl (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 5 comments) on Monday, Oct 22, 2007 at 1:53:49 PM

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"Yeah, don't be gentle with them -- ass kicking is what's called for . . ."
 -- Bill Maher speaking to his security dragging the 9/11 questioners out

Explain Bill Maher out of this one.

Bill Maher started this when he proclaimed on his show that 1/3 of America should be put on Paxil for questioning 9/11, and the official myth that denies the laws of physics.

This was an outrageous thing for a broadcaster to do.  Don Imus got fired, and rightfully so, for insulting black women.  Black women are less than 10% of America.  Again, so as not to be misunderstood, he should have been held accountable for the low blow.

Now, Maher's comment was even worse, for two major reasons.  One is that it was a slap at 1/3 of the American public, and actually more than half if you consider all who now believe we've been lied to about 9/11 by Bush et al.  BUT, the other horrid aspect of Bill Maher's tirade against Americans seeking 9/11 truth . . . is that he advocated the "drugging" of them.

 This is how the Soviet Union's KGB handled dissenters.  This should have insulted the conscience of ALL Americans.  The fact that this doesn't, and didn't bother "Bill Maher FANS" is one more reason, I can no longer stomach to watch his twisted show.

 "Reexamine all you've been told . . . dismiss what insults your soul."

-- Walt Whitman (America's greatest poet)

by Bill Douglas (69 articles, 2 quicklinks, 11 diaries, 434 comments) on Monday, Oct 22, 2007 at 2:34:59 PM

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First, regarding me and my facts-i have never once brought anything regarding 9/11 into this discussion-i am talking about the way in which to enter into a productive debate. When referring to your facts i was talking about the quote Bill said on Friday night. The point i am trying to make (as are others) is that this was not the best way to start a discussion-people who feel that you'll win over others by being rude and disrespectful are seriously doing a dis-service to their position.

Next, i guess you are admitting that the first quote you used was taken out of context. as for this next one-you are missing the point of Bill's frustration. He is not calling for an "ass-kicking" because they are questioning 9/11, he is just frustrated that he can't have a debate with his panel on other issues without being interrupted. Again, there is a time and place for raising these questions, and in the middle of a show taping (while discussing other issues) is not the place.

I highly doubt you would have the same stance after this incident if the protesters in the crowd were shouting out against something like farming subsidies-if it is OK to disrupt the show for 9/11 questions, then wouldn't it be OK to yell out regarding any issue you want to hear discussed? That isn't how you enter into a civilized debate.  

by tvl (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 5 comments) on Monday, Oct 22, 2007 at 6:44:54 PM

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People who believe that some mythic energy weapon toppled the Towers, or that those planes we all saw ramming into them were controlled by remotes or by little green men are simply not going to accept rationale and thoughtful commentary..

by ardee D. (6 articles, 4 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 2377 comments) on Monday, Oct 22, 2007 at 9:14:19 PM

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sadly it seems you're right.

by tvl (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 5 comments) on Tuesday, Oct 23, 2007 at 12:07:30 PM

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First off Run Corvus, you need a timeout.  You're going to do what to me with a taser?  I suggest you read a dictionary under sarcasm.   I love people who butch up and take posting steroids and go into blog rage.  But what's best of all is how everyone on here who disliked what happened on Real Time is saying that anyone with dissenting opinions should keep quiet.  Here's your black pot and kettle sir; shall I help you put them on your high horse?

What I see is that you're all PO'd that Bill Maher has a bigger forum to say what he wants.  These blogs aren't going to change anyone's minds.  Stop getting on Maher's case for doing what anyone else would have done in that situation.  I've never seen a bigger group of whining babies. 

If anyone here had a show on TV or the radio and had someone trying to talk over the host of said show, you’d be gone.  Either hung up on or removed.  Imagine this happening on American Idol.  The guy would be removed faster than Corvus losing his cool.

Bill (Douglas), you can't tell me that if you had a TV show with invited guests and had someone start ranting about you from the audience that you'd let them interrupt you?  That would be rude to your guest, your studio audience and the audience watching at home.  I didn't tune to Real Time to hear those losers interrupt the show.  I was there to hear the discourse between host and guests only.  Let them take their dialog to a bigger stage of their own. 

As for tasering, you know what, spare the taser, spoil the person who should protest outside the building where he belongs.

by Tim Brosnan (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 6 comments) on Monday, Oct 22, 2007 at 2:12:50 PM

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What I can tell you is that if I had a talk show, and I thought someone (like Bush et al), or 9/11 truth seekers, were lying . . . I'd have their best people on the case come on and hash it out with me.

Bill Maher, like Rush Limbaugh, is unwilling to have major 9/11 researchers like David Ray Griffin, Kevin Ryan, Professor Steven Jones, and high level military and intelligence experts like Lt. Col. Robert Bowman, etc. on his show to hash this out and debate it.

WHAT I WOULD "NOT" "NEVER" DO . . . is shout out that the people I disagree with are insane and should be DRUGGED (ala Soviet Union's KGB), and then hide behind the skirts of my security and screening team, so I wouldn't actually have to face the people I said should be silenced with drugs.

 Maher, has acted like a baby.  Real men and real women called him on it, and he used his thugs to haul them out, while he waved his arms like a panicked little girl, and pretended to be tough.

Maher fans who support his rant, and see nothing wrong with his strong arm thug tactic abuse of his podium, will never be convinced. Just like they'll never see thru the official lies of 9/11, cause Bill Maher told them not to.

But, for the majority of clear minded humans in America, just like on the lies of 9/11, they are beginning to see how they are being played, by the "media darlings" who are "allowed" their mics and podiums on corporate TV, so they can tell us all just how far we're allowed to go . . .before being drugged into normalcy.

by Bill Douglas (69 articles, 2 quicklinks, 11 diaries, 434 comments) on Monday, Oct 22, 2007 at 2:44:21 PM

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What you didn't answer was what you would do if during a discussion of your invited guests someone disrupted the proceedings, and that seems to be the big question here.  People are mad that Bill Maher hasn't asked anyone from 9/11 Truthers to appear on his show.  Perhaps someone from 9/11 Truthers should ask Bill to come on their show.  Oh right, they don't have a TV show.

However, I do like the fact that you said Bill Maher waved his arms like a panicked little girl.  I just watched the video again and I certainly don't remember him waving his arms like a panicked little girl, but I do like that you said you wouldn't hide behind the skirts of your security.  I guess that means you're either hiring extremely tough girls who shy away from dress pants or some guys in kilts.  Either way I'm sure they'd be pretty bad ass.  Probably the girls more so than the guys.

Maher did not act like a baby; he took control of “HIS” show.  It's not the audience’s show, it's his.  You don't have to like it, but that's the way it is.

I'm not here to debate you about 9/11 and what did or did not happen.  You have your beliefs and I have mine; and think what you will about most of America not having a clear mind toward your views.  I don't claim to be a genius on the subject but I do claim to know someone who was there in the aftermath of 9/11.  The person I chose to be best man at my wedding in 1977 is a New York City cop, and ex Army Ranger, and is a person I trust, so when he tells me he saw no evidence of anything to corroborate your “theories”, then I have to believe him. 

Last thing, I like your choice of Walt Whitman, but disagree with his standing.  He’s #2, The great Carl Sandburg is my #1:

Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo.

Shovel them under and let me work –

            I am the grass; I cover all.

by Tim Brosnan (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 6 comments) on Monday, Oct 22, 2007 at 8:52:25 PM

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There would be no person representing 100 million more Americans in my audience, absolutely frustrated that I had labeled them insane and suggesting they be drugged into normalcy . . . IN THE FIRST PLACE.

 As I explained clearly above, which you chose not to read, I would not character assasinate everyone taking a position, and then deny ANYONE of credibility taking their position a place on my "debate" show.

A "debate" show doesn't character assasinate everyone, now up to 1/3 to 1/2 of Americans who now know we've been lied to about 9/11 . . . and then DENY those 100 million plus Americans the ability to defend themselves.

If you behave in such a rude irrational manner, as Bill Maher did, then you'll find those people finding some way to defend themselves.

They did.  Good for them.  If Bill Maher wasn't such a baby, he'd have Lt. Colonel Bob Bowman or 9/11 Hero William Rodriguez on his show and debate this instead of calling people, who are much more intelligent and informed on this issue, than Maher is, "nut bags" and needing to be drugged "ala Soviet Union's KGB tactics"

by Bill Douglas (69 articles, 2 quicklinks, 11 diaries, 434 comments) on Tuesday, Oct 23, 2007 at 11:35:01 AM

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I finally saw the show last evening. Those in the audience interrupting, shouting over the guests, annoying everyone in the audience and preventing the show from continuing were simply assholes.

They deserved to be ousted as they were and anyone defending them needs a mental health professional...period.

by ardee D. (6 articles, 4 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 2377 comments) on Tuesday, Oct 23, 2007 at 9:46:44 AM

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You know there were probably placid drones sitting in their living rooms the night Paul Revere was storming through the streets, screaming his WARNING!

And they probably said, "Oh my, how rude.  What a rude little man.  Someone should arrest him.  Dear me, how can that little man behave so innapropriately?"

 Maher said on national TV that he thought that people who question 9/11, now up to 1/3 to 1/2 of America . . . SHOULD BE DRUGGED INTO SILENCE!!

THEN HE WOULD NEVER ALLOW ANY EXPERT MAKING THEIR CASE TO DEFEND THEMSELVES FROM THE SLANDER, AND SOVIET NAZI THUG TACTICS MAHER ADVOCATED.

JESUS, are there any Americans left with any cajones, or have we become a nation of spineless, "oh, don't be rude, my my.  It is impolite to not allow yourself to be drugged into normalcy."

When Maher was advocating Paxil to those who question 9/11, he must have seen how well it has worked with his devotees, who would never question Maher's thuggish tactics, and condemn anyone or anything Maher tells them to.

by Bill Douglas (69 articles, 2 quicklinks, 11 diaries, 434 comments) on Tuesday, Oct 23, 2007 at 11:40:32 AM

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but you could not be more wrong nor could your position be more counter productive. Sad really.

by ardee D. (6 articles, 4 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 2377 comments) on Wednesday, Oct 24, 2007 at 8:48:41 AM

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Hate to sound preachy, but 2 wrongs don't make a right.

The hecklers were out of line. That was not how to raise the issue of 911 truth. Bill has a format for a show, and that format doesn't involve audience participation. When the hecklers began, the proper response would have been to address security.

Then, I'd politely remind the audience to keep their questions for after the taping!!!

Threatening a woman with physical violence goes against the mantra of many of his fans. He was clearly out of line, and distasteful.

And to reiterate again, the behavior of the hecklers fit Bill's description of them as 'nutcases'. A disappointing night for those that believe in free speech...and those we thought did too.

by Tony Reina (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 1 comments) on Monday, Oct 22, 2007 at 9:44:16 PM

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I totally agree with this comment, those protesters were out of line, that wasn't the time or place, if the subject had come up on the panel, then I could see someone shouting out some truth. But, Maher's response was totally assine and childish. He makes good points at times, but for the most part, he's just another bloviating chickenshit that somehow gets airtime and credence. I'll no longer pay attention to that fool until he confronts the situation like a real man.

by Eckfan (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 12 comments) on Tuesday, Oct 23, 2007 at 10:47:52 AM

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9/11 Truth Movement Activists have BEGGED CORPORATE MEDIA FORUM, to rationally discuss the physics of 9/11, and many other issues of concern that make any thinking person quickly realize we've been lied to.

Maher has been provided with such information many times.  He refuses to read it, refuses to discuss it, and slanders those who've done their patriotic duty and educated themselves about an event that has led us into 2 wars, stripped our civil rights, and turned us into a torture state.

If Maher suggests we should be DRUGGED for questioning 9/11 (ala Soviet KGB tactics) and calls us, engineers, architects, high level military and intelligence experts, physicists, and professionals of many stripes "nut bags" BUT WON'T ALLOW A DEBATE . . . then he deserves what he got.

Maher has had the breaks, many of his millions made came from people now questioning 9/11, people he now turns on visciously like some Bush-drone-lackey.

Maher didn't make his millions, he was given them by his viewers, viewers he now insults, and will not allow to defend themselves.

I HOPE PEOPLE DEMANDING 9/11 DEBATE, KEEP COMING ON HIS SHOW AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN.

BY THE WAY, WHEN MAHER'S PEOPLE CALLED LAPD, THEY LAPD OFFICER IMMEDIATELY SAID, "TAKE OFF THOSE CUFFS!  RIGHT NOW!"

WHEN HE HEARD THE STORY, HE ORDERED THEM RELEASED, AND THEY WERE LET GO.  HE SAID THEIR IS NO LAW AGAINST HECKLING A COMEDIAN.

THAT IS ALL MAHER IS, AND HE' S NOT GOD!  AND WHEN HE STARTS SAYING MILLIONS OF AMERICANS NEED TO BE DRUGGED TO SHUT THEM UP . . . HE'S NO LONGER FUNNY . . . AND DESERVES TO BE HECKLED !!!

by Bill Douglas (69 articles, 2 quicklinks, 11 diaries, 434 comments) on Tuesday, Oct 23, 2007 at 11:48:33 AM

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Boy... Ron surely sounds a wee bit close minded and egotistical.  Just a thought since he has nothing better to than rant about how this random act of heckling is a conspiracy in itself.  If you had even WATCHED the episode in question; you would know that neither the panel, the host or the television watcher had ANY idea what the hecklers were talking about... just that they were interrupting a live television broadcast.

by JamieRS (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 2 comments) on Tuesday, Oct 23, 2007 at 12:47:21 PM

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...why does Bill Maher have to give any time to you "truther" idiots? I didn't know that it was incumbent upon him to give audience and legitimacy to your conspiracy theory lunacy. I thought it was his show, his panel, and his audience. I didn't know it was a f*cking free-for-all!

You fail to understand (or don't want to understand) that the loud mouthed "truthers" were there for no better reason than to put their lunacy on public display. You fail to mention the ten minutes of delays in the show while his security worked to restore order. You fail to mention how uncomfortable everyone was on the panel.

No, all you care about is whether or not you get your lunatic fringe stupidity the widest possible stage. Therefore, you feel it is within your right to trample on the rights of others.

No, it is not! I am an incredibly liberal Libertarian. I am all for everyone being able to do whatever they want. The one proviso is that when your rights to be an a**hole trample on my rights to not have to deal with your stupidity, you have crossed the line. I am then within my right to do whatever it takes to shut you down.

The same thing goes for Bill Maher. It is his show. It is his panel. It is his baby. It is his decision as to what goes and what doesn't. For the "truthers" to try to circumvent that by being disrespectful or disruptive only proves the idea that "truthers" are lunatics...and your theories are not worthy of the air from which they are constructed.

If you want people to start considering the possibility of any truth to your ideas, it is incumbent upon you to silence the lunatic fringe, and to present your case clearly, cogently, and sanely. If you can't do that, then don't be surprised when others consider that your ideas are irrational...or consider you to be fools!

Blessed be!
Pappy

by Pappy (61 articles, 0 quicklinks, 11 diaries, 860 comments [5 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Tuesday, Oct 23, 2007 at 5:19:11 PM

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very well written-thanks Pappy

by tvl (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 5 comments) on Tuesday, Oct 23, 2007 at 9:06:10 PM

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We are, ideologically speaking, miles apart, but here we are kindred.

by ardee D. (6 articles, 4 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 2377 comments) on Wednesday, Oct 24, 2007 at 8:50:17 AM

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Pappy for Decider in Chief!

by Tim Brosnan (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 6 comments) on Thursday, Oct 25, 2007 at 8:40:35 AM

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I'm speechless!

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Blessed be!
Pappy

by Pappy (61 articles, 0 quicklinks, 11 diaries, 860 comments [5 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Thursday, Oct 25, 2007 at 7:20:31 PM

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