Tom Beck wrote:
>
> > http://members.aol.com/tiermensch/Courage.html
> >
> > Quote:
> > Bill Maher responded with the suggestion that the suicide hijackers of
> > September 11th, 2001 were not cowardly because they stayed in the plane
> > and died whereas the US military firing a cruise missile from 2000
> > miles
> > away was cowardly.
> >
> > More direct quote can be found at
> > http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/527457/posts
>
> Who cares? It's a stupid, divisive, smirky thing to say (unless you
> really mean it and are consistent in following up the logical
> implications).
Apparently the advertisers did. :(
> Who cares what Bill Maher says, anyway? He's not a representative of
> mainstream American liberalism by any means (I don't know any liberals
> who want him representing us). He's not a representative of anything
> other than smarmy, self-impressed hot air, which knows no partisan
> boundaries.
In fact, he has identified himself as "libertarian". At least he was
doing that a lot when I was watching him, ages ago.
I like the description you give, though.
Julia
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