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Davis' Brash Tactician Grabs National Notice By ROBIN FIELDS, Times Staff Writer Garry South leans back in his oversized leather desk chair, one lanky arm folded behind his head, his lips curling in satisfaction. Each day brings him more claps on the shoulder, handshakes and breathless testaments to his brilliance as California's political chess master of the moment. ~~snip~~ Though adversaries and allies alike call South a pro whose tactics fall within the modern norm, South himself makes no secret of enjoying the bare-knuckle quality of political races. Not for nothing, "The Guinness Book of Poisonous Quotes" sits on his ...

Defending bill maher: Civil liberty is an unfortunate loss Updated: Tue, Oct 09 12:00 PM EDT By Mike Plunkett The Clause Azusa Pacific U. (U-WIRE) AZUSA, Calif. -- As it has been clearly seen, the Sept. 11 attacks have transformed the attitude and decorum of America and the world. It is not surprising that there are longer lines at airports, increased security at recreational events and the fear of further terrorist attacks. However, it should not be surprising that with the response to the "War on Terrorism" will come a reduction, possibly a restriction, of civil liberties that are held ...

Bill Maher Still Secure in ABC Slot, at Least Now By JIM RUTENBERG The New York Times Comments made by Bill Maher, host of "Politically Incorrect," came under broad fire recently. But do not expect ABC to cut him loose anytime soon. Ask an ABC executive about Bill Maher these days and you will sense palpable discomfort. Call it a case of on-the-edge material going over the edge. Three weeks ago, near the height of the shock over the terrorist attacks, Mr. Maher, host of the irreverent late night talk show "Politically Incorrect," said that the suicide hijackers were arguably ...

Bill maher support organizer a veteran of moveon.org and justsayblow.org Story Filed: Thursday, October 04, 2001 8:42 PM EST BERKELEY, Cal , 2001 (U.S. Newswire via COMTEX) -- "Support Bill Maher," a grassroots, online campaign , today delivered messages in support of Bill Maher from more than 6,000 people to executives with ABC, Sears, and FedEx. The campaign also posted them at snip. The messages were collected over the course of the effort's first 7 days, and several hundred more are still arriving daily. "Our nation is in the midst of a crisis, and our first priorities must be defending ...

Defending bill maher: WHY WE WAVE THE FLAG By Richard Reeves This column in somewhat different form appeared in The New York Times on Oct. 1. In the first Gallup Poll published after the disastrous invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs in April 1961, President John F. Kennedy's approval rating jumped 10 points to 83 percent. The commander in chief looked at the numbers -- the disapproval was only 5 percent -- and said, "The worse you do, the better they like you." Not exactly. But as President George W. Bush (news - web sites) learned when his ...

Weapons of the Secret War By: Paul Kaihla Issue: November 2001 Print Article | Email This Article How the shadowy science of signals intelligence, honed in the drug wars, can help us fight terrorism. The target never had a clue that he was in imminent danger. A high-ranking member of a Kashmiri terrorist group implicated in the World Trade Center attack, he had every reason to believe he had eluded the manhunt. He was lying low in a nondescript safe house on the outskirts of Peshawar in Pakistan's Khyber Pass region. He steered clear of phones and kept to ...

COLUMN: Please take your foot off my freedom (defending bill maher) Updated: Fri, Oct 05 12:00 PM EDT By Terry Pinder The Snapper Millersville U. (U-WIRE) MILLERSVILLE, Pa. -- The political cartoon in last week's Snapper said it best. People are willing to give up their civil liberties to feel safe. In addition, people are more than willing to stifle other people's civil liberties as well -- like the right to free speech. Now, many of you might remember that I attacked free speech a few weeks ago when the Klan paid Lancaster County a visit. Sept. 11 has changed ...

Maher cancellation leaves Vanderbilt scrambling for homecoming guest Updated: Wed, Oct 03 12:00 PM EDT By Bryan Harris Vanderbilt Hustler Vanderbilt U. (U-WIRE) NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Last week, the Homecoming Planning Committee received news they didn't anticipate -- Bill Maher of ABC's "Politically Incorrect" canceled his appearance at this year's homecoming celebration. The Committee searched for three and a half months for a lead act for the Commodore Quake, a community-wide pep rally that takes place the night before the homecoming football game. After making numerous offers to many different groups, Bill Maher and "Politically Incorrect" agreed to the conditions ...

Politically Unforgivable Bill Maher's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week. by John Podhoretz IN THE SPACE OF FIVE DAYS, a man named Bill Maher, who hosts a late-night program called Politically Incorrect on the ABC network, underwent a kind of public nervous breakdown on national television. The spectacle had its voyeuristic fascinations, certainly. It’s not often you can watch a television personality deal his own career a fatal blow and then watch him try desperately to talk his way out of it. But the story of Bill Maher’s nightmare week is also an object lesson in the kinds ...

Fellow freepers, one of our own has been attacked. Freeper jacksonstate started an online petition to BoyCott Bill Maher's Politically Incorrect and it's sponsors at petitiononline.com- In order to file an online petition, you must include your e-mail address. Well, it is now evident that some maher defenders are not satified with verbal defense of bill maher, they are sending viruses to freeper jacksonstate via his e-mail. There are many words that come to mind, but now is not the time. Lets all show our support jacksonstate andsign sign his petition. Its the least we can do for a fellow ...

by celestine Bohlen The title of his show is "Politically Incorrect," which, until recently, was politically acceptable. But in a time when public discourse is constrained by barriers of taste, propriety and patriotism, the comments on Sept. 17 by the late-night talk show host Bill Maher were denounced as both incorrect and unacceptable by two major sponsors, a dozen affiliate stations and even the White House. What Mr. Maher actually said was not that different from the comments of his guest that evening, Dinesh D'Souza, a conservative from the American Enterprise Institute, who quarreled with President Bush's characterization of the ...

Under George W. Bush, a fundamental change has already taken place in American foreign policy: The foreign world is again, well, foreign. Gone is the Clintonian emotional expansiveness that took in friend and foe alike, displaying a false identification with places near and far. That neurosis about acceptance, that compulsive need for seduction, drove Bill Clinton and took him everywhere Air Force One could land. There is nothing of this in Bush. The man's ease with himself is, in part, an ease with home and country and familiar verities. No, it is not too early to make this kind ...

This is a repost of an important artice from a year ago. Where U.S. Power Is Beside the Point Foreign Affairs Opinion (Published) Keywords: BRIDGE TOO FAR Source: N.Y. Times Published: 10-17-2k Author: Fouad Ajami Posted on 10/16/2000 23:51:09 PDT by quimby Where U.S. Power Is Beside the Point By FOUAD AJAMI The recent history of United States engagements in the Arab-Muslim lands is best told through the names of American battleships and destroyers. That history of sorrow and heartbreak telescopes easily. A generation ago, in 1984, it was the battleship New Jersey, off the coast of Lebanon, with ...

Many who display the American flag are doing so "for xenophobia, for revenge, for violence against other people who will suffer in a war," a little-known actor alleged on Tuesday night’s Politically Incorrect. Actor Paul Provenza asserted he won’t fly the U.S. flag because many who do "are driving trucks with flags off their antennas and pulling brown-skinned people with foreign accents out of their cars and beating them up." Later on the ABC show its host, Bill Maher, delivered more conventional liberalism as he advocated repealing the tax cut: "Don’t we need to be collecting money rather than ...

White House Spokesman Chastises Maher Updated: Thu, Sep 27 5:16 AM EDT By Josef Adalian and Michael Schneider HOLLYWOOD (Variety) - Last week, "Politically Incorrect" host Bill Maher called past U.S. missile attacks "cowardly" -- and the controversy over those remarks has yet to subside. White House spokesman Ari Fleischer jumped into the fray Wednesday, calling Maher's comment "a terrible thing to say" -- although Fleischer admitted he hadn't seen the "PI" broadcast in question or read a transcript. Fleischer said he was relying on media reports on the controversy, which arose from a conversation Maher and panelist Dinesh D'Souza ...

For clarity, here is the full statement which does not appear in the article: "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away," he said. "That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." Opinions should never be silenced (bill maher) Updated: Tue, Sep 25 12:00 PM EDT By Michelle Kann Iowa State Daily Iowa State U. (U-WIRE) AMES, Iowa -- It has been two weeks since Sept. 11, but no one has forgotten the terrible images. The country is slowly attempting to return to the ...

Its about midnite on the East Coast, and the bill maher politically incorrect show is about to start. Please post any comments, advertisers, and obsevations here. Anyone know if Ann Coulter is on?

For clarity, here is the full statement which does not appear in the article: "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away," he said. "That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." COLUMN: Maher marred by misquote Updated: Mon, Sep 24 12:00 PM EDT By Matt Flahive Cornell Daily Sun Cornell U. (U-WIRE) ITHACA, N.Y. -- Like many of you, I don't watch "Politically Incorrect" very often. Heck, it goes up against a rerun of the Peabody Award-winning "Daily Show," not a tough choice ...

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Monday Nite Politically (in)correct show thread (bill maher) 9-24-2001 Since monday nite football is now over, his show must be showing on the East Coast. Please post any comments, advertisers, and other info here.