On 3/13/2012 20:55, BOB KLAHN -> JOHN MASSEY wrote:   
      
    BK>>> Bill Maher is a libertarian, not a democrat.   
      
    JM>> BIll Maher gave a million dollars to BHO's super pac.   
      
    BK> When I was working in the 2008 campaign there were a lot of   
    BK> republicans supporting Obama. It's not a matter of being   
    BK> affiliated with him, but being so disgusted, or frightened, of   
    BK> the republican alternatives as to be willing to go to that   
    BK> extent to oppose them.   
      
    BK> As I have said, over and over, I have never voted for any   
    BK> presidential candidate, but I've voted against a lot of them.   
      
    BK> I worked for Kerry in 2004, not because I was all that thrilled   
    BK> with him, but because Bush was so much worse.   
      
    BK> I worked for Obama in 2008, not because he was the best possible   
    BK> candidate, but because he was the best candidate we had.   
      
    BK> I suspect Maher donated the money because the republicans are so   
    BK> bad, not because he thinks Obama is so good.   
      
    BK> Maher is not a liberal, he is a libertarian. With Vegan   
    BK> inclinations. I have never seen his HBO show, but his network TV   
    BK> show was a lot more restrained. Maybe they should not have   
    BK> forced him off network TV.   
      
    BK> Even then he said a lot of things I found offensive, but he was   
    BK> not killing people the way Cheney did. He often said things   
    BK> about women not being suited for some safety service jobs, like   
    BK> police and fire fighter, that were not very accurate. His   
    BK> knowledge of such things, and some others, was very limited. I   
    BK> watched his shows because he had guests who argued with him, not   
    BK> to hear his rants. Sometimes he did get it right, though. Fairly   
    BK> often, actually.   
      
    BK> I had not known of this particular donation before, nor those   
    BK> specific comments, so I looked them up. These are some comments   
    BK> by Brent Bozell I found on Newsmax.   
      
    BK> "There is Maher's arrogant description of George W. Bush as a   
    BK> "retarded child emperor" and a "terrorist's wet dream."   
      
    BK> I object to the reference to a "retarded child", other than that   
    BK> he's pretty well hit it on the head.   
      
    BK> ...   
      
    BK> "Shouldn't Team Obama send the million dollars back?"   
      
    BK> A superpac is independent, Team Obama cannot send the money   
    BK> back.   
      
    BK> ...   
      
    BK> "Maybe he wants to start his general-election campaign by   
    BK> reminding all the conservatives that his million-dollar donors   
    BK> want them to die violent deaths."   
      
    BK> Probably not even the majority of them, but some donors do, and   
    BK> some of those they want to die would be doing the world a favor.   
      
    BK> ...   
      
    BK> "In addition to Katherine Harris, let's review who Maher jokes   
    BK> should be dead."   
      
    BK> If Katherine Harris had not done her part to steal the 2000   
    BK> election over 5000 Americans and 100,000 Iraqis who died in the   
    BK> war for oil and the Afghan debacle would be alive today. That   
    BK> and we probably would not have a debt that doubled in the 8 Bush   
    BK> budgets, nor a near depression.   
      
    BK> ...   
      
    BK> "There's Rush Limbaugh: "Why couldn't he have croaked from   
    BK> [OxyContin] instead of Heath Ledger?""   
      
    BK> I don't much care about Heath Ledger, but Rush would prevent a   
    BK> lot of harm in this world by leaving it.   
      
    BK> "Dick Cheney when he was vice president: "I'm just saying if he   
    BK> did die, other people, more people would live. That's a fact.""   
      
    BK> True. Or at least before 2000.   
      
    BK> "Glenn Beck when he was a Fox News host: "When we see crazy,   
    BK> senseless deaths like this, we can only ask why, why, why   
    BK> couldn't it have been Glenn Beck?""   
      
    BK> "Sarah Palin: "Sarah Palin screaming about death panels? You   
    BK> know what, Sarah, if we were killing off useless people, you'd   
    BK> be the first to know.""   
      
    BK> Considering the damage those people have done, the deaths they   
    BK> have been and will be responsible for, I really don't have much   
    BK> of a problem with those comments.   
      
    BK> Dick Cheney in particular, has the blood of thousands of   
    BK> Americans on his hands.   
      
   I notice in all the crap you posted above you failed to mention, or condem   
   what he said about,Laura Ingram.   
      
   Is that your way of approving of what he said?   
   I mean if you don't say something condemning him, by your standard, it's like   
   you support his vile statements.   
   NBS   
      
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