Maher to Apologize for Calling Pope a 'Nazi'

CNSNews.com ^ | April 17, 2008 | Melanie Hunter-Omar

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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.

[OKIEDOC]

Is it me or does Bill Maher remind us that he looks, acts and speaks, somewhat like a white elitists Obama?

[Luke21]

I'm not a Catholic, but I was disgusted by this. We live in a culture that won't show cartoons of Muhammed, but this is called humor.

Political correctness doesn't protect Christians and Catholics, so the vilest things can be said. This wasn't simple impoliteness, but vulgarity. Maher is a cretin. I've always admired the Catholic League for standing up to these creeps. They don't take this nonsense. Good for them.

[Lucky9teen]

[Convert from ECUSA]

Bill Maher is sort of like a white elitist Obama, except that Obama was able to keep a smoother shuck and jive going a bit longer.

[red irish]

I was reading a story the other day about people who were possessed by evil and Bill Maher fits the personality traits. The man has dead eyes and hates anything Christian. But I believe he just hates inside and out!

[jackv]

maher is proof that the flesh HATES Spirit.
He is an empty hateful man.
This is far worse than anything Imus said.
He should be fired as well.

[ExSoldier]

I'll bet a million dollars he got beat up in the playground everyday.

Probably by Nuns.

[top 2 toe red]

...only to the braying jacka$$.

[romanesq]

I like the show Entourage but I have to go call HBO now and complain.
Then I need to call my cable co. and cancel HBO.

Enough is enough. I’ve had it with this guy.

[top 2 toe red]

Lol...I should have known and I should have read just three posts down before I posted to madison10......only to the braying jacka$$....now, I feel like a jacka$$. ;^(

[top 2 toe red]

That scum Maher isn’t even accomplished enough to clean the dog sh1t off Dennis Miller’s shoes!

[altura]

Everyone should cancel HBO immediately. Then if they fire the guy (which they will if it hits them this way), one can always re-subscribe.

[top 2 toe red]

Ain't that the truth!

Don't forget this looker hangs out at the Playboy Mansion all the time...literally turns my stomach, him and the idiot bimbos that suck up to him.

[top 2 toe red]

Isn't that black "girl"friend, also, a transvestite?

[chris_bdba]

“Liberal talk show host Bill Maher” ? I thought it was supposed to be a comedy show? HMMM guess that explains why it isn’t funny.

[deuteronlmy232]

Catholics and Protestants

Catholics are Protestants, but Protestants are not Roman Catholics.

[top 2 toe red]

Why does CNN and Larry King give him airtime to apologize and clarify his remarks?...don't forget he's also on O'Reilly's, The Factor, quite often, oh, and Ann Coulter has on numerous occasions stated that she and he are good friends.

[weegee]

What did Maher’s granddad do during the war? Protest against the US going to war against Hitler like the Communist Party USA did?

[top 2 toe red]

...there is something else nagging at him which causes him to be in the attack mode all at once.

It's when he looks in the mirror every morning.

[weegee]

“Hard to tell if he’s wasted on something or that’s his natural expression when off-camera.”

Both are likely. He’s a doper’s rights advocate.