White House Reprimands Maher WASHINGTON (AP) – The White House press secretary scolded the host of “Politically Incorrect” Wednesday for calling some past U.S. military actions cowardly.
The host, Bill Maher, said on his show last week: “We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That’s cowardly,” Bill Maher said on the show last week.
Then, referring to terrorists who hijacked four jetliners and crashed them Sept. 11, Maher said: “Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it’s not cowardly.”
“It’s a terrible thing to say, and it’s unfortunate,” Fleischer said. “There are reminders to all Americans that they need to watch what they say, watch what they do, and this is not a time for remarks like that; there never is.”
Oh, no never, never, never… it’s not even set aside in the constitution? The right to freedom of speech? and freedom of the press? Just a minute… wasn’t it true that Americans indeed died horrible deaths so that Mr. Maher can speak his mind openly and freely? Or, was that only in case of “terrorist” acts? Wherein all consitiutional rights are suspended and subject to heavy modification? Well, if so… fuck you Fleischer, fuck you Asscraft, fuck you Cheney, Powell (god rest his soul) and especially you Mr. Bush…