By now, almost all of y'all have heard that Bill Maher's Politically Incorrect has been yanked off the air following his sharp criticism of the American military recently. As one might expect, liberals around the globe have - rightly - rallied to his defense. These folks were noticably silent when the Boston Globe fired its only conservative columnist two years back. And you can bet every penny of junior's college fund that they were standing on the sidelines cheering when the National Review axed Ann Coulter's syndicated column.
One nexus of the Maher controversy is White House spokeman Ari Fleischer's remarks that people "ought to watch what they say." Oddly enough, Maher wasn't criticising the current administration, he was lambasting the last one, when he said: "We have been the cowards, lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away; that's cowardly."
So why does everyone seem to think this is the product of some super-secret White House plan to get Bill Maher?
Posted by wasylik at October 2, 2001 01:14 PM