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Maher to Apologize for Calling Pope a 'Nazi'
CNSNews.com ^ | April 17, 2008 | Melanie Hunter-Omar

Posted on 04/18/2008 6:40:10 AM PDT by paterfamilias

Maher to Apologize for Calling Pope a 'Nazi' By Melanie Hunter-Omar CNSNews.com Senior Editor April 17, 2008

(CNSNews.com) - Liberal talk show host Bill Maher, whose controversial comments about the pope drew fire from the Catholic community, is planning to apologize Friday night for falsely accusing Pope Benedict XVI of being a Nazi, the Catholic League announced Thursday.

Catholic League President Bill Donohue received a phone call Thursday from an HBO executive regarding comments Maher made last Friday on HBO's "Real Time With Bill Maher."

As Cybercast News Service previously reported, Donohue said Maher "lied when he said the Pope 'used to be a Nazi.' Like all young men in Germany at the time, he was conscripted into a German Youth organization (from which he fled as soon as he could). Every responsible Jewish leader has acknowledged this reality and has never sought to brand the Pope a Nazi. That job falls to Maher."

Apparently HBO agreed with Donohue's assessment. "Apparently, now Maher does as well. Ergo, the apology," Donohue said.

So will the Catholic League accept Maher's apology?

"Assuming it comes across as genuine, the answer is yes. But I hasten to add that what we would really like to see is for Maher to stop with his hateful diatribes against the Catholic Church. So this is a start, but it hardly puts to rest our concerns," said Donohue.

"After all, there are plenty of factually accurate things Maher could say about other groups that would insult its members, but he chooses not to go there. Perhaps he can add Catholics and the Catholic Church to that protected list as well," he added.


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To: paterfamilias
Bill Maher is THE poster child for prophylactics. ...and no apologies are forthcoming.
101 posted on 04/18/2008 8:44:56 AM PDT by USMCGunnut (Be polite, be professional....but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.)
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To: paterfamilias
I wanna see Maher insult the Muzzies and then try to keep his head (and neck) together.

How about it Maher? It's easy to insult Catholics because nobody will chop off your head! Right, tough guy?

102 posted on 04/18/2008 8:45:50 AM PDT by libs_kma (The land of the free, because of the brave)
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To: NRA2BFree

If he were talking about any other law abiding group the way he does Christians, he would be unemployable.

Sportscasters have been fired for one sentence, and Maher’s comments about Christians would fill books.


103 posted on 04/18/2008 8:46:32 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (McCain is rock solid on SCOTUS judicial appointments. He voted for Ginsberg, Kennedy and Souter.)
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To: paterfamilias

Seems like HBO has dictated that the little turd apologize. Frankly I don’t care about anything this idiot says or does.

God bless Bill Donohue.


104 posted on 04/18/2008 8:47:01 AM PDT by Fudd Fan ("we are ***SO*** screwed.")
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To: paterfamilias

Maher and Jimmey Carter has something in common. They both are has-beens deperately seeking periodic news coverage. They are more than willing to pull increasingly unbelievable stunts to get their names back in the headlines.

I guess it is fortunate that Maher lacks the frequent flyer miles of Carter. Otherwise, he would have been in North Korea when he cheap-shotted the Pope.


105 posted on 04/18/2008 8:51:59 AM PDT by rod1 (uestion)
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To: madison10

Why apologize for tell them truth?


106 posted on 04/18/2008 8:52:21 AM PDT by ops33 (Senior Master Sergeant, USAF (Retired))
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To: paterfamilias
It will be one of those fake apologies i.e. I am sorry that you are stupid.
107 posted on 04/18/2008 8:55:07 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (Vote for McCain but trust in the Lord)
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To: Red Badger
Liberals just love to throw around that word, Nazi...................

oh, it's in the PC freeper quiver as well trust me

108 posted on 04/18/2008 8:56:58 AM PDT by wardaddy (I just bought my daughter a Mini-Cooper, man....that thing is a blast......I need one.)
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To: Red Badger

Everybody is a Nazi. NAZI NAZI NAZI! NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAzIIIIIIIII!!!!!!
NAZi nazi nazi. He’s a NaZi she’s a Nazi! Hitler this, hitler that. Hitler HiTLER HITLER!!!!!!

...then there’s ‘fascist’. FASCIST!!! YOU FASCIST! FASCIST Tendencies. Everyone is a fascist.

...except me!!!

Liberals own the Nazi, Hitler, and Fascist name-calling. It is their fall-back response when they run out of anything coherent to say. Which is typically early in the verbal debate.

Of course, they take exception to being called an “abortionist”, who have killed more kids than Hitler ever did, for reasons of convenience, than some final solution, master plan. But THAT’s another blog...


109 posted on 04/18/2008 8:57:27 AM PDT by Tulsa Ramjet ("If not now, when?" "Because it's judgment that defeats us.")
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To: libs_kma
“I wanna see Maher insult the Muzzies and then try to keep his head (and neck) together.
How about it Maher? It's easy to insult Catholics because nobody will chop off your head! Right, tough guy?”

Right. Same reason our over the top “gutsy” MSM didn't reprint the Mohammad cartoons. Those dastardly right wing intolerant Christians wont try to saw your head off with a rusty knife. Its hilarious, that if they were not such useful idiots right now, the lefties would be at the top of the muslims “to kill” list.

110 posted on 04/18/2008 8:58:47 AM PDT by USMCGunnut (Be polite, be professional....but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.)
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To: paterfamilias
Maher, you think he's funny? No Free Republic for you!


111 posted on 04/18/2008 8:59:22 AM PDT by GalaxieFiveHundred
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To: USMCGunnut

“I wanna see Maher insult the Muzzies and then try to keep his head (and neck) together.
How about it Maher?”

Ha ha. exactly.


112 posted on 04/18/2008 9:03:16 AM PDT by Tulsa Ramjet ("If not now, when?" "Because it's judgment that defeats us.")
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To: paterfamilias

113 posted on 04/18/2008 9:07:10 AM PDT by Lucky9teen (Note to McCain: The voters are not united FOR you, they are uniting AGAINST Clinton/Obama)
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To: Lucky9teen

good one!


114 posted on 04/18/2008 9:21:22 AM PDT by paterfamilias
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To: Dick Bachert

If I had been there, I would have broken his nose.


115 posted on 04/18/2008 9:22:22 AM PDT by coon2000
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To: paterfamilias
Even though I'm not Catholic, what Maher did was inexcusable. He needs to be stripped of his show and banned. Maher is a disgusting slimy pig.
116 posted on 04/18/2008 9:25:08 AM PDT by Paige ("Facts are stubborn things." President Ronald Reagan)
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To: meandog

ROFLOLOLOL Great Photo!


117 posted on 04/18/2008 9:25:48 AM PDT by Paige ("Facts are stubborn things." President Ronald Reagan)
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To: sweet_diane

My question is: What on earth did Ann Coulter see in that braying jerk? Sheeze!!


118 posted on 04/18/2008 9:26:45 AM PDT by Paige ("Facts are stubborn things." President Ronald Reagan)
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To: paterfamilias

It’s a good thing he didn’t insult an African-American. Ask Limbaugh.


119 posted on 04/18/2008 9:28:36 AM PDT by zeebee
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To: paterfamilias

http://www.hbo.com/apps/submitinfo/contactus/submit.do?title=Real%20Time%20with%20Bill%20Maher&questiontype=realtimewithbillmaher


120 posted on 04/18/2008 9:30:59 AM PDT by Paige ("Facts are stubborn things." President Ronald Reagan)
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