Posted on 09/02/2006 8:04:52 PM PDT by infoguy
Here in the Information Age, it is customary for a major newspaper to regularly post its contents/articles on its web site. However, it appears an exception has been made in the case of the Los Angeles Times and some op-eds written by television host Bill Maher. The paper has not made two of his recent articles available for viewing outside the actual hard copy of the paper.
In the print edition of yesterday's Times (Friday, September 1, 2006, page B13) was a piece written by Maher entitled, "Praise Allah and pass the hair gel." (More on this below.) However, the article is nowhere to be found at latimes.com or anywhere on the internet. (For you suspicious types, here's an image of the actual article from the paper.)
Lest one think that this episode is an anomaly, this is not the first time we've noticed this. Back on November 4, 2005, the Times published an op-ed by Maher entitled, "Is abortion finito with Alito?" (image). As we reported at the time here at Newsbusters, the article began with the line, "President Bush's new Supreme Court nominee, Samuel Alito, must bomb an abortion clinic." He then pondered, "Is Alito a decent man with Christian values? Until he kills a nurse with a pipe bomb, there's no way to be sure." That op-ed, also, has never been made available by the Times for internet viewing.
What gives? Has the Los Angeles Times brokered a special deal with Maher in order to deflect criticism of his more indignant opinions? The Times has posted other op-eds from Maher on its site, but why not the two we've cited? What ever happened to that good-ol' fashioned virtue of "sharing"? Anyone?
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Here's some excerpts from Maher's article yesterday ("Praise Allah and pass the hair gel") that the Times apparently doesn't want too many people to read (emphasis mine):
If converting to Islam is all it takes to get the terrorists off our backs, then all I have to say is, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em. This week, when two Fox News journalists were released by their kidnappers in Gaza, I was shocked. Fox News has journalists? No, the shocking part of it was that all these two Westerners had to do to get the blade literally off their necks was say they were now Muslims.
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I know what you're thinking: "Bill, if we convert to Islam, doesn't that mean the terrorists have won?" Well, sort of, but it's a win-win, because they get to declare victory and we get to take hair gel on the plane!
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And the best part: Nothing would really have to change ... I mean, look around, we don't care for the poor, or defer to the meek, or avoid judging people - it's not like we're that committed to Christianity. Seriously, is the Koran that different from the New Testament? Sex is bad, women are inferior, and when in doubt, blame the Jews.
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We're a nation in thrall to religious fanatics anyway; does it really matter which religion we're in thrall to? Koran, Bible -- what's the diff? They're both full of moral pieties and codes of conduct nobody follows anyway, so let's pick the one that lets us take hair gel on the plane!
And who says liberals don't want to fight the war on terror? Good grief.
All we have to do is compromise with the Muslims. After all they are peace-loving just like us. All we have to do is give in on a few points and we would have peace. NO BIG DEAL !
First, since muslims believe homosexuality is a crime, all we have to do is agree with them and make homosexuality a crime, punishable by death. NO BIG DEAL,right? Secondly, muslims believe and insist that women are third class citizens, who should be subjugated and treated as chattel. So we just do as they say, don't let women vote anymore, don't let them go to school, kill them if they are not virgins before marriage, promote female clitoral castration to reduce the sex drive, and deny them divorce and property rights. Its what Allah commands. NO BIG DEAL, RIGHT?. Thirdly, let them annihilate the jews. Its only a tiny country anyways, and then we would have peace. ITS NO BIG DEAL, Right????? So all you Jews, Gays and Females, think about it. Its your reward, and its NO BIG DEAL !!!!!
Maher is an embarrassment to us all.
That's the logical conclusioni of liberal inaction and anti-action against Muslim terrorism. But somehow Bush is more evil than the people who actually say they want to do away with the liberals' way of life, not to mention their lives.
If that's their goal, being published in the LA Times is becoming a good tactic to achieve it.
Bill Maher does not get it. His cocaine habit and fetish for non burka wearing hookers is not permitted under islam.
Excellent reply. Very scary; but the truth.
It would be NO BIG DEAL to run Maher out of the country on a rail.
Where is Maher's email address. I'll add him to my list of infamous liberals I enjoy chastising with emails.
"...Internet in places like FreeRepublic for all to see"
And we pass ity on and on and on and on .... Like I just finished doing ... to a few readio stations and newspapers, military groups, etc.
EVERYBODY do this! Send a copy of that picture to your local paper and morning talk jock and tv stations etc
Probably because they know it would just be used for toilet paper.
I've noticed that Maher has a deep hatred for christianity. Wonder what fuels his anger.
Embarrassment? Try ignorant. Maher does not know that Muslims also practice circumcision, but their males are put under the knife at six or seven when they'll *feel* it and remember it.
I agree with his being ignorant. He is also a narcisistic self-agrandizing liberal zeolot who should undergo a circumcision at his present age.
Not an embarrassment to all of us, just an embarrassment to HBO, the LA Times and all of hollywood and the Left. This is a guy who said that the biggest downside to being famous was that he couldn't go to the newsstand and by dirty magazines without being recognized.
It couldn't happen to a more deserving fellow. Now if only he'd die...
People like Maher are praised by our jihadis enemies, and their words used to recruit more terroists. Everytime someone like this utters their hateful vitriol about this country our enemies cheer. For that he is an embarrassment to us all.
I believe he is an ex Catholic. When Catholics go bad, they seem to go really bad.
Corruptio optimi pessima est.
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