Posted on 09/25/2001 7:53:36 PM PDT by BubbaLaw
Edited on 09/03/2002 4:49:20 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Here's some good news for embattled "Politically Incorrect" host Bill Maher, whose late-night talk show lost advertisers and was taken off the air last week by WJLA and two other ABC affiliates over his Sept. 17 on-air comment that, unlike the suicide terrorists, "we have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away." Bicoastal pundit Arianna Huffington, a frequent Maher guest, is spearheading a drive to keep the show on the air, urging fans to call Walt Disney Co. and sign an online petition (www4.PetitionOnline.com/promaher/petition.html) decrying "blatant attempts to silence Mr. Maher." At press time, more than 1,500 people, including writers Digby Diehl and Todd Gitlin, and comedian Elayne Boosler, had offered their names.
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He was taking it too literally when the director yelled 'cut'
OUCH!
Maher is scum of the Earth and Huffington is a total airhead!
Nuff said!.... for now at least
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