The Nazz
26-05-2005, 06:35
Sorry if this has already been posted here, but I've been at work all day and would have missed it.
On Tuesday, Congressman Spencer Bachus (R-Idiot) said that Bill Maher's commentary on his show Real Time bordered on treason and that he wanted him off the air. You can read the entire ludicrous tale here. (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0505240052may24,1,4673702.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed)
So today, on The Huffington Post, Bill Maher fired back (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/bill-maher/fruit_1561.html) Here's part of his reply:
I could go on and on, but this is too ridiculous, so I'll just say this: I'm not a congressman, I'm a comedian. There's nothing I can really do to help or hurt our troops (although anyone who's watched my shows or read my books in the last twelve years knows I'm a pretty ardent supporter of the military).
But a congressman, there's someone who can actually DO SOMETHING to help our troops. In fact, a case could be made that it's a lot more treasonous for someone in his position to be wasting his time yelling at a comedian. Shouldn't he be training his outrage at such problems as troops not having enough armor? Wouldn't that ACTUALLY support our troops more? And citizens of this country who claim to support our troops should write this man and tell him GET BACK TO WORK! DO SOMETHING THAT ACTUALLY COULD MAKE A DIFFERENCE TO SOLDIERS IN IRAQ!
And by the way, these "comments" were part of a longer, scripted comedy piece in the modest proposal tradition. I can see why administration supporters would want to deflect attention away from the gist of the piece, which was this: now that we can't meet our recruiting goals, maybe it's the people who were so gung ho for this war to begin with who should step up and go fight it. But of course it's always easier to distract people.
Finally, I would direct the Congressman to chapter 3 of my book "When You Ride Alone, You Ride with bin Laden." The accompanying poster shows a soldier, a cop, a fireman, and a teacher, and says, "We Say They're Our Heroes...But We Pay Them Like Chumps."
Maybe that's something else he could look into when he gets done with me.
Maher gets on my nerves occasionally, but damn, I like it when he does stuff like this.
And I also find it hysterically sad just how little our elected representantives understand the very Constitution they take oaths to uphold and defend. If I recall correctly, there's a pretty simple definition of treason written into the Constitution, and Maher isn't even in the same galaxy.
On Tuesday, Congressman Spencer Bachus (R-Idiot) said that Bill Maher's commentary on his show Real Time bordered on treason and that he wanted him off the air. You can read the entire ludicrous tale here. (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0505240052may24,1,4673702.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed)
So today, on The Huffington Post, Bill Maher fired back (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/bill-maher/fruit_1561.html) Here's part of his reply:
I could go on and on, but this is too ridiculous, so I'll just say this: I'm not a congressman, I'm a comedian. There's nothing I can really do to help or hurt our troops (although anyone who's watched my shows or read my books in the last twelve years knows I'm a pretty ardent supporter of the military).
But a congressman, there's someone who can actually DO SOMETHING to help our troops. In fact, a case could be made that it's a lot more treasonous for someone in his position to be wasting his time yelling at a comedian. Shouldn't he be training his outrage at such problems as troops not having enough armor? Wouldn't that ACTUALLY support our troops more? And citizens of this country who claim to support our troops should write this man and tell him GET BACK TO WORK! DO SOMETHING THAT ACTUALLY COULD MAKE A DIFFERENCE TO SOLDIERS IN IRAQ!
And by the way, these "comments" were part of a longer, scripted comedy piece in the modest proposal tradition. I can see why administration supporters would want to deflect attention away from the gist of the piece, which was this: now that we can't meet our recruiting goals, maybe it's the people who were so gung ho for this war to begin with who should step up and go fight it. But of course it's always easier to distract people.
Finally, I would direct the Congressman to chapter 3 of my book "When You Ride Alone, You Ride with bin Laden." The accompanying poster shows a soldier, a cop, a fireman, and a teacher, and says, "We Say They're Our Heroes...But We Pay Them Like Chumps."
Maybe that's something else he could look into when he gets done with me.
Maher gets on my nerves occasionally, but damn, I like it when he does stuff like this.
And I also find it hysterically sad just how little our elected representantives understand the very Constitution they take oaths to uphold and defend. If I recall correctly, there's a pretty simple definition of treason written into the Constitution, and Maher isn't even in the same galaxy.