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Politics : Sioux Nation
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To: ThirdEye who wrote (101355)3/5/2007 7:41:18 PM
From: SiouxPal  Read Replies (4) of 361221
 
What I Didn't Say
Bill Maher


03.05.2007
On Saturday, the website NewsBusters.org. posted a story under the headline "Bill Maher Sorry the Assassination Attempt on Dick Cheney Failed."

There's just one problem: As a fair reading of the show's transcript makes clear, I never said those words. Still, over the weekend, dozens of websites, mostly right wing, picked up the story (with headline intact) thus proliferating the myth that comic Maher somehow advocates the whacking of our Veep.

Don't get me wrong: I've never joined the Dick Cheney Fan Club. But what I said Friday -- and what I believe -- is that the Vice President has presided over a bungled execution of a war in which thousands of our bravest continue to die. And I believe that were he not in power, our troops would likely come home sooner. But I don't wish him dead.
Ironically, I made my comments during a discussion about Free Speech, which is one of the chief reasons that I love my country.

To see a complete transcript from the March 2, 2007 episode of "Real Time with Bill Maher" go to:
www.billmaher.com.

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