Faux News: TV Host Bill Maher Suggests Dick Cheney's Death Would Save Lives

[sabra]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,256650,00.html

TV Host Bill Maher Suggests Dick Cheney's Death Would Save Lives

WASHINGTON — More people in the world would live if Vice President Dick Cheney died, political commentator Bill Maher said, raising few eyebrows despite suggesting the death of the U.S. vice president would be a good thing.

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During the Friday night broadcast of his HBO show "Real Time With Bill Maher," Maher and his guests, including Democratic Rep. Barney Frank and former Republican Rep. Joe Scarborough, debated the removal of comments from the HuffingtonPost Web log praising the idea of Cheney being assassinated.

Frank earned applause when he quoted bloggers saying the bomb was wasted when it missed Cheney. Maher asked the panelists whether it was wrong for blog host Arianna Huffington to remove the comments.

Quoting the blog, Maher said, "I have zero doubt that if Dick Cheney was not in power, people wouldn’t be dying needlessly tomorrow."

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But the latest comment received few responses, being overshadowed by a remark by conservative commentator Ann Coulter made Friday at the Conservative Political Action Conference. Coulter said she would discuss John Edwards' bid for the 2000 Democratic presidential nomination except "it turns out you have to go into rehab if you use the word 'faggot.'"

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[zbdent]

1. I faux also going to report

about Mannthrax's comments about how the terrorists should have rammed the planes into the NY Times building? Or was that Tim McVeigh ...

I mean, if they're going to bring up a bombing as comparison to Mannthrax's recent comment ...

[madinmaryland]

2. A couple of points here..

First of all, no one here is condoning the statements of Maher and supporting the death of anyone. Secondly, Maher is speaking for himself and noone in the democratic party. If that's what he thinks, so be it. It is not the democrat's point of view.

Coulter on the other hand, is speaking as a republic party member and for the republic party. She has institutionalized her comments in the republican platform.

[Forkboy]

3. I wouldn't say "no one"

:evilgrin:

[NYCGirl]

7. Very good points. Maher is speaking on a TV show (a pay channel, so the FCC

has no purview), and Coulter is speaking at a POLITICAL gathering. There is a difference.

If Coulter said the same thing on a TV show, I'd still think she was an asshole, though.

[Hosnon]

4. And asshat Cheney REPEATEDLY suggests that the Democrats want Osama to

rule this country.

[cyclezealot]

5. probably wise Maher gets little attention.

I like Maher. He made a faux paus. I want him to continue to have his HBO special. His voice is a needed voice.

[cyclezealot]

6. probably wise Maher gets little attention.

I like Maher. He made a faux paus. I want him to continue to have his HBO special. His voice is a needed voice.

[truebrit71]

8. There was no faux pas...

He didn't say we would be better if Darth Cheney was dead, that is a mis-quote by the "liberal-media"

Oh, and Fuck Fox Noise channel...They are complicit in this whole Iraq mess as well...

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

9. Remember when the leader of the Christian right made a death threat against Clinton?

In 1994, Republican Senator Jesse Helms chose the anniversary of JFK's assassination to proclaim that if Bill Clinton came down to North Carolina, he'd better watch out and bring a bodyguard.

Helms was universally censored by his fellow Republicans and never again given any support by the conservative right. Right? Right? He was, wasn't he? Please tell me that the Republican Party as a body and as one voice condemned his statement!

[acmavm]

10. My gosh, from what I'm reading one would think that no one

here has had that idea cross the minds.

[mwb970]

13. I think of it every day. /nt

[ComerPerro]

11. Its absolutely true. If Dick Cheny had never been born, the world would be a better place

But then again, you can say that about every Republican

[librechik]

12. at least he didn't suggest a method and urge others to make it happen , like Ann

she suggests poisoning judges, hangingc critics, and assassination of world leaders--and guess what, Faux doesn't have a problem with any of that!