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Bill Maher Uses Aurora Massacre to Attack American Exceptionalism
NewsBusters.org ^ | July 21, 2012 | Noel Shepperd

Posted on 07/21/2012 1:16:10 PM PDT by Kaslin

Leave it to HBO's Bill Maher to use the massacre in Aurora, Colorado, to attack the belief in American exceptionalism.

On Friday, the vulgar comedian took to his Twitter account to claim that James Holmes' actions should be a "reminder that so many of the things that make us exceptional these days are bad":

Rt wingers luv to tout American Exceptionalism - today is a reminder that so many of the things that make us exceptional these days are bad — Bill Maher (@billmaher) July 20, 2012


One has to wonder how stoned Maher was when he wrote this nonsense.

So many of the things that make us exceptional these days are bad?

How can something exceptional be bad?

Most people define "exceptional" as excellent or superior. Can that be bad?

More importantly, a clearly disturbed young man massacred innocents for no reason, and Maher sees this as an opportunity to bash conservatives and the concept of American exceptionalism.

What should make people sadder than the comment itself is that there are so many folks around this great nation who agree with him, and that maybe such anti-American sentiments are part of the problem.



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1 posted on 07/21/2012 1:16:14 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

I don’t pay any attention ot Maher. He’s wackier than little Jimmy “The Joker” Holmes.


2 posted on 07/21/2012 1:19:09 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Who is Barack Hussein Obama?)
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To: Kaslin

1. Being an exception; uncommon.

2. Well above average; extraordinary: an exceptional memory.

3. Deviating widely from a norm, as of physical or mental ability

Two of three definitions, including the primary, just mean unusual or uncommon.


3 posted on 07/21/2012 1:19:23 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: Kaslin

We should make FR a Maher free zone. Do we really care what this idiot says and if his siccophant fans believe the crap he says or not?


4 posted on 07/21/2012 1:20:00 PM PDT by History Repeats (Drink plenty of TEA, but avoid the Koolaid.)
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To: Kaslin

Bill Maher IS an exceptional American.
An exceptionally stupid American.


5 posted on 07/21/2012 1:23:38 PM PDT by Lorianne (fedgov, taxporkmoney)
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To: Kaslin

Bill Maher is a sort of Vaseline for Marxists.


6 posted on 07/21/2012 1:25:03 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: Kaslin
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This ever classy, waste of otherwise valuable protoplasm and pathetic excuse for a life form is seen here whacked out on a large quantity of booze and/or exotic chemicals in his Halloween, 2007 STEVE IRWIN get-up! Bill Maher: Giving SCHMUCKS and MORONS a bad name for 20 years!!


7 posted on 07/21/2012 1:26:26 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (NOVEMBER 6th: THE END OF AN ERROR! Let us pray it's not the start of another!*)
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To: History Repeats

Well, since liberal idiots such as Bill Maher and Michael Moore influence millions of Americans, it’s good to know what they are saying.

So yes, we do care what this idiot says, because we want to talk sense to liberals when we hear them spouting this nonsense.


8 posted on 07/21/2012 1:26:49 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Kaslin

No one has hanged Bill Maher yet and that is exceptional, and it’s bad.


9 posted on 07/21/2012 1:31:38 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: Kaslin

Hey Bill...

On your way out...Don’t let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya!!!


10 posted on 07/21/2012 1:38:08 PM PDT by stevie_d_64 (It's not the color of one's skin that offends people...it's how thin it is.)
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To: Kaslin

This human life ravishing incident is evidence of the progress of Bill Mahr’s and Barack Obama’s new and improved hate in America.

The Left’s ideology and it’s minions is the most effective mass murderer ever known to mankind. They have murdered and impoverished millions upon millions of people.

STFU with the leftist propaganda, Billy boy.


11 posted on 07/21/2012 1:38:42 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: Venturer
Maher is a hater. He will get what he deserves but not from a Freeper... most likely he will shoot off his ugly mouth to one of the black crack whores he like to patronize and she will cut off his package and shove it down his commie pie-hole.
12 posted on 07/21/2012 1:39:55 PM PDT by RedEyeJack
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To: FlingWingFlyer; Kaslin; Sherman Logan
The difference with Bill Maher is that he says those things for the sole purpose of making headlines for the free advertisement. He's not embarrassed about what he says at the very least. He makes his money saying these things. He's cute in the eyes of the liberals. Unlike Brian Ross, Dan Rather and other so called "journalists" whose livelihood depends solely on not getting caught being a partisan, Bill Mayer could always go back his day job which is being a clown (and a bad one at that).

Keith Obermann did something similar. He always made sure he attacked a republican with an audience that he knew would report on what he had said.

13 posted on 07/21/2012 1:40:39 PM PDT by tsowellfan (http://www.cafenetamerica.com/)
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To: Kaslin

The shooter was another ordinary leftist, just like Maher.


14 posted on 07/21/2012 1:41:39 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Kaslin

This human life ravishing incident is evidence of the progress of Bill Mahr’s and Barack Obama’s new and improved hate for America.

The Left’s ideology and it’s minions is the most effective mass murderer ever known to mankind. They have murdered and impoverished millions upon millions of people.

STFU with the leftist propaganda, Billy boy.


15 posted on 07/21/2012 1:42:50 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: tsowellfan

I agree. If morons like Maher don’t say things that are stupid and “controversial”, they fall off the radar, lose their jobs and have to go back to the “fries guys” jobs they had before they were “discovered”. Attacking Americans is what Maher has to do to survive and keep a big paycheck coming in. It’s what the communists pay him big bucks to do.


16 posted on 07/21/2012 1:45:29 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Who is Barack Hussein Obama?)
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To: Lorianne

and evidently has no mirrors in his house either.


17 posted on 07/21/2012 1:54:37 PM PDT by cubreporter
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To: Kaslin
Apparently being a “comedian” didn't work out for that idiot. In his own sort of way, he is a “joke”, a sick one at that. Gee I wish Todd or Track Palin could have a few minutes alone with that piece of vile ugly crap.
18 posted on 07/21/2012 1:55:21 PM PDT by Gertie
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Bill Maher is a twerp.

Unlike the Moslem paradises and the Communist utopias, Billy Maher is free to leave the US whenever he wants.

All of us will benefit when he leaves, including him.


19 posted on 07/21/2012 2:01:33 PM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it.)
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To: Kaslin

If I woke up one day and heard that Bill Maher went on a shooting rampage I wouldn’t be surprised at all, that guy is seriously off his nut..Hey Bill, if you hate this country so much LEAVE..please..just LEAVE


20 posted on 07/21/2012 2:06:52 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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