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(Bill) Maher on CNN: Petraeus and Maliki ‘Stooges’ For President Bush (Parrots MoveOn.org)
NewsBusters.org ^ | 9/18/2007 | Matthew Balan

Posted on 09/18/2007 5:23:01 PM PDT by Pyro7480

Bill Maher gave an unsatirizable interview on Tuesday evening’s "The Situation Room" on CNN, spending a large portion of his ten-minute interview attacking, among others, General David Petraeus, Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker, and Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki, labeling them "stooges" for President Bush....

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...Blitzer first asked the HBO host about the congressional Democrats’ lack of action on the Iraq war. "Is there more that they [the Democrats] could be doing? Should be doing?"

Maher’s answer:

Yeah, I guess there is. But, you know, what can you do with a situation where there's one man who stubbornly has the power and will not relinquish it? And he's such a liar, you know? I think that -- if he would just be straight with the American people, instead of saying things like, 'The people who are attacking us in Iraq are the same people who attacked us on 9/11.' What a blatant lie....

Blitzer then asked about General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker.

BLITZER: You listen closely to General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker.... They made the case effectively for President Bush that the U.S. should continue this strategy.

MAHER: Wait a second. He put the words in their mouth. That wasn't the Petraeus Report.... It was a White House-written report. We know that. Bush has an interesting little scam going. He also quoted in his speech on Thursday night, Maliki. And he said basically that the Iraqi leadership is asking us to stay. So, in other words, he puts words into his stooges' mouths, and then, he quotes them.


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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: billmaher; cnn; moveon; petraeus
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Maher is unworthy to polish General Petraeus's boots with his tongue.
1 posted on 09/18/2007 5:23:03 PM PDT by Pyro7480
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Maher is an amusing little man.
2 posted on 09/18/2007 5:24:29 PM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: Pyro7480

Maher! WHAT A MA-ROON!


3 posted on 09/18/2007 5:26:07 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: pieceofthepuzzle

“Maher is an amusing little man.”

Perhaps the modifier “amusing” does not belong there. (And of course, I do not refer to Maher’s physical stature...only to his diminuitive mental one.)


4 posted on 09/18/2007 5:27:43 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: SandRat

What a self serving bunch of expletives. Of course the media and the dem pols and the protesters want the war to go on. What would they do without it...work at real jobs?


5 posted on 09/18/2007 5:28:00 PM PDT by crazyshrink
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To: Pyro7480

Bill Maher has figured out that the only way to salvage his career is to suck up to the political Left.


6 posted on 09/18/2007 5:30:32 PM PDT by popdonnelly (No more no win wars.)
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To: Pyro7480

We should ban all Maher references here and everyone needs to stop watching him.


7 posted on 09/18/2007 5:32:08 PM PDT by edcoil (Reality doesn't say much - doesn't need too)
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To: SandRat

I completely agree. He is nothing but an agitator. BTW - How does an English Major from Cornell and crappy comedian get to be a political talking head?


8 posted on 09/18/2007 5:33:24 PM PDT by Dutch Boy
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errrr,.... be a Fellow Traveler LEFTIST LOON?


9 posted on 09/18/2007 5:34:29 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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Ever since this SOB called our Troops cowards, and his ABC (the one that I never even watched) Program was canceled I have had nothing but contempt for him.

He is an absolute A$$hole!

10 posted on 09/18/2007 5:35:31 PM PDT by Radix (Nothing else to do but raise eyebrows and wreak havoc on FR.com)
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To: Da Coyote
“Perhaps the modifier “amusing” does not belong there.”

I didn’t mean he was funny. I meant that he is amusing because he is so self-important. I wasn’t referring to his stature either. Big people can be very short in stature and little people can be very tall in stature. I referred to him as little because he is too self-absorbed and self-righteous to see beyond his own nose. How dare he so flippantly dismiss someone like General Patraeus.

11 posted on 09/18/2007 5:35:55 PM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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Well, CNN always puts Maher on a pedestal; did Woffie even attempt to correct maher’s blatant lies? I didn’t think so.

Woffie/CNN/Maher/NBC/ABC/CBS....all organs of the DNC. There are NO patriots left at any of these organizations; they are just hateful people wanting to lose a war so they can blame President Bush. The BDS has gone from bad to extreme.


12 posted on 09/18/2007 5:36:42 PM PDT by Laverne
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To: Pyro7480
New Rules. No military briefings by sexual deviants.


13 posted on 09/18/2007 5:36:45 PM PDT by AliVeritas (Chuck Norris has been deployed to Iraq... you've been warned.)
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To: Pyro7480

What’s his DU screen name?


14 posted on 09/18/2007 5:36:48 PM PDT by rock_lobsta (Doing my part to warm up the planet... Because Bikinis Beat Burkas!)
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To: pieceofthepuzzle

Maher is truly a smarmy little p@ick. I would like to see him spend one week in Iraq with General Petraus.The hate filled anti American sthick act of his is really getting old. I guess if you have no talent, you have to try anything.In his world, General Petraus is a puppet, and Bill Clinton is a hero. We are truly experiencing bizarro times.


15 posted on 09/18/2007 5:37:12 PM PDT by steve7
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To: Pyro7480

I get confused. Is President Bush a complete dope or a master manipulator who is able to fool everyone except Bill Maher? The President’s intellect seems to rise and fall as it fits liberals.


16 posted on 09/18/2007 5:37:26 PM PDT by perez24 (Dirty deeds, done dirt cheap.)
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So, in other words, he puts words into his stooges' mouths

Well, President Bush has gone from an AWOL village idiot to an evil genius. Again.

17 posted on 09/18/2007 5:45:16 PM PDT by Duke Nukum (He burns at the center of time and he sees the turn of the Universe.)
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To: rock_lobsta

ButtToungeBruce


18 posted on 09/18/2007 5:52:22 PM PDT by DGHoodini
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To: Pyro7480

CNN continues to circle the drain.


19 posted on 09/18/2007 5:54:25 PM PDT by roses of sharon
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To: AliVeritas

Ever notice that the “Free Spirit” sniveler, always bitchin aabout how he qand the “people” are gettin their “tights” taken away from them by “an ever increasing Neocon fascist state”....always seem to have new sets of “rules” for everybody *else* to follow?


20 posted on 09/18/2007 5:57:54 PM PDT by DGHoodini
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