Bill Mahar (CNN) agrees with Bush about wiretapping.

[AX10]

:argh:

He said that he wants to be safe and that it's o.k to wiretap without a warrent.

[CatWoman]

1. he's really let me down on this one.

[annabanana]

17. I think he freaked out on 9/11 and has never

reintegrated his fear...

[DanCa]

2. Why do you guys put trust in one single person?

DTA dont trust anyone

[AX10]

7. I never said I "trusted" him only, or at all.

I'm just saying that he said that he agrees with Bush.

[oasis]

3. So-called "Libertarian" Bill Maher can kiss my ass.

:grr:

[Dr Fate]

11. All these "Libertarians" ultimately care about is drugs & porn. n/t

n/t

[AX10]

13. Bingo.

They care nothing about REAL LIBERTY.

[renie408]

19. Yep. The only things I have ever seen Maher get really excited about

are religion and legalizing drugs.

[sasha031]

4. yes I saw that too

forget him :wtf:

[davidwparker]

23. Is that pictue photoshopped?

* kisses a lot of men if not. Not that there's nothing wrong with that. * isn't European and we're homophobic on this side of "civilization."

Hmmm. Maybe I need to rethink who Jeff "love ya longtime" Gannon was visiting.

[Fire Walk With Me]

5. Tell me it isn't so.

That republican Kool Aid must taste pretty good :-(

[Vinnie From Indy]

6. As insightful as Maher can sometimes be, he is still a pompous

ego maniacal blowhard. I just happen to agree with him on some things.

[karlrschneider]

8. Agreed with Chimp. Yeah, he just went to the top 10 on my shit list.

:grr:

[indie_voter]

9. I am not surprised

Remember, last year, after the first Iraqi election, how he defended Bush's actions?

He got in to a debate with Wes Clark about it, if I recall correctly?

He is a funny man, a quick man, but I don't think he is as smart as he likes to think he is.

Steven Corbert on the other hand is a very very smart man.

[tsuki]

32. He is not. I have seen Scarbourgh wipe the floor with him

using Repub talking points that any DU'er could refute. He's funny, but not well up on the issues.

[wisteria]

10. Yeah, well Mohair sometimes goes off the deep end and comes

up with ridiculous reasoning.

[TahitiNut]

12. Since when does "liberty and justice for all" mean protective custody?

Such people really should be locked up - in padded cells. It's insane.

[oasis]

14. CNN knew what they were doing when they got him to host tonight.

This is part and parcel of the MSM campaign to get public opinion behind the Chimp on this issue.

[Cha]

15. Then maher doesn't get

the chimp management inc AT ALL!

I bet the bushits are just lovin' this surrender to their powerful SPY Program which started before 9/11..get a clue chickenshit.

[demnan]

16. When's his show coming back on

I'd just be happy enough to see him be funny again. I don't really expect him to be right.

[otohara]

29. February

hope they NSA is listening to him.

[fooj]

18. Then he doesn't know he was doing it before 9-11...

Peace.

[helderheid]

28. we should educate him with the internets.

[fooj]

38. Yeah. You'd think he'd have it covered.

:eyes:

[NYFlip]

20. Thou Gergos and the women (don't know her name)

They disagreed with him completely and told him how easy it was to get a wiretap before or afer the fact. I liked them.

[stepnw1f]

21. That's Just Fuckin Dumb

coward

[GR]

22. I Guess That Was In The Second Half, Which I Didn't Watch...

He's wrong....wrong...wrong....

Bush cannot be trusted....when has he ever told the truth about anything...

BTW, the rumor today was that this started BEFORE 9/11 on Executive Order of Bush...

[Cookie wookie]

24. I'm still reeling after seeing that

He sat there and justified the president of the United States BREAKING THE LAW.

Pleaze Mr. Bill tell us now you bonehead why anyone in the country should obey the law? After all, we can all come up with some excuse to justify committing crime. Oh, it's different if our lord of the flies does it, huh? he's protectin us from turrurists. Doesn't think much about bin laden, but he's protectin us.

For some reason I thought Maher was an intelligent man. And maybe he is. Maybe he's decided which side he wants a seat on. Collaborator, fascist enabler, terrorist, traitor. I'll never ever watch him in anything again.

Now I feel better. Big mistake watching that few minutes of Larry King. I rarely ever do that, and I swear I never will again. I don't need that kind of shock and awe.

[FreedomAngel82]

25. Fuck it

So what if he was talking to a friend and said the word "Al-Quaida" and from then on HE was wire tapped?

[jab105]

26. If they want to do this..then they should change the damn Constitution...

gees...this is why its so hard for me to watch the news...I cant understand how no one cares?!!?

"He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither"

[Viva_La_Revolution]

35. ...

yep

[helderheid]

27. OH HE DIDN'T! Seriously??? The self proclaimed LIBERTARIAN????

[KharmaTrain]

30. Mahrer Bit On The Distortion...Hasn't Been The First Time

He actually thought the elections in Iraq really were a good thing. Hey Bill...tell that to all the corpses that now line Iraqi cemetaries and their grieving families that have died since waiving those purple fingers.

The "beat your wife" game here is the scenario that somehow Mohammed Atta's calls are being tapped and the 9/11 plot or a similar one (Brooklyn Bridge anyone? Yeah, I know it was supposed to be dismantled in broad daylight) like it's some edition of "24"...you've only got so much time before the plane hits the building. But Mahrer and others who suck on this trick seem to know little about FISA law...which would have given 4 DAYS...72 hours to just get a judge to say, after-the-fact, the tap was ok...and surely if there was other evidence that proved there was a plot to kill people, no judge in their right mind would deny a request. It's just playing on fear.

Now isn't it amazing without the illegal snooping into American lives Bill Clinton was able to smash several plots...anyone remember the "Millenium plot" where Al Queda was going to make New Years one to remember? Or blowing up the pope's plane? Or sneaking in across the Washington border from Canada? Oh well...guess those didn't count.

I enjoy Mahrer when he gets a bug up his ass and I agree with him. He can rant with the best of 'em. But he's woefully ignorant on a lot of what goes on outside his little Hollywood world and his own world of self-absorbed self-indulgence.

[flyarm]

31. so what was his reasoning for * wiretapping < before> 9/11??

that mother fucker...he is no better than the rest..i am now totally done with all of these fuckers!!

rant over..

fly

[leesa]

33. What a twit. He can STILL eavesdrop and get a warrant after the fact

Why is Mahhar so stupid sometimes? Bush is committing warrantless spying on 500 Americans a day and started BEFORE 9-11. How is THIS making him safe?

[sakabatou]

34. That's not like him... at all.

[hopeisaplace]

36. make all phone lines party lines

no privacy, problem solved, there you have it
freedom to the max.:sarcasm:

[Fleshdancer]

37. He's not very consistent in his beliefs

so according to Maher, it's too intrusive for the government to tell him he can't smoke pot but spying on him without a warrant or any form of oversight isn't too intrusive? How does that make any sense? Plus we have a guy who lost his job because of the hysteria surrounding this insane war on terrorism and HE of all people can't see how crazy this all is?

:wtf:

[incapsulated]

40. He's a self-absorbed hypocrit?

I like Maher, genrally, but this is beyond disappointing, he's a shithead.

[seabeyond]

39. terrorist suspects right? he is assuming bush has integrity

and is only tapping terrorists. this is why i am finding these people think it is ok. i ask them, what in the world is making you think the warrantless taps are on bad guys. does the picture change when it is journalists, political opponents, activists?

[MrSlayer]

41. Bill is sometimes woefully uninformed.

We should blast him with facts and see what he says on his show in February.

[fujiyama]

42. Not surprising

Maher makes some funny cracks on the RR but is a pompous ass and I never found him all that intelligent.

[oasis]

43. Maher represents the worst kind of shameless sellouts. (eom)

[upi402]

44. first the brave terrorists comment, now this...

he pisses off like gramma's nightgown, -about covers everything.

[The Backlash Cometh]

45. I told you all about this schmuck.

He said the same thing about profiling dark-skinned people at airports. Never occurred to him that we have as much to fear from white supremacist paramilitarys who would stir up the shit, then blame it on the darkies.

Maher is a easily manipulated by fear, as any Republican.