October 21, 2007
Bill Maher Doesn't Like 9/11 Conspiracy Theorists
While hosting a live edition of "Real Time With Bill Maher," a number of 9/11 conspiracy theorists began to shout statements and questions at Bill Maher and guest Chris Matthews. When studio security was slow to respond, Maher left the set himself to remove the disruptive audience member. Other conspiracy theorists continued to interrupt the program by shouting from the audience. Maher yelled back, "This is not a debate. This is a debate between [him and his guests onstage]. You're in the audience. Audience comes from the Latin, 'to listen.'"
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One day I hope they are remembered as something other than "9/11 conspiracy theorists".
Demanding a legitimate investigation, a probe of certain members of the US government and answers to some simple questions about what happened on September 11th is deserving of a nobler title.
Whatever you say, Kevin. We'll get right on that after we find Nicole Brown Simpson's real killers.
well, kevin, i'll tell you this. they'll never be seen as anything other than wackos unless they stop pulling stunts like this. it seems that any sort of intelligent discussion is lost on these people, they'd rather just yell.
these fools don't represent everyone who hold similar views.
Well, Maher asked security to roughen up the hecklers. Didn't he, along with Mathews, decryi the air of intimidation that the Bush administration has brought? Mathews even went so far as to blame the tasering of the nut at the John Kerry speech on Bush!
Funny how leftists pull this stunts all the time at right wing speeches but when some wacko does it to them, they not just call for removal but for beatings.
I don't remember Matthews saying that.
JMS;
This is not a left wing political event they are disrupting; it is a performance by a group of entertainers. Maher overreacted; he's a blustery, cocky little guy; but he did not, in fact, physically attack anyone, nor were the hecklers actually beaten.
I wonder if you're trying to equate this with the stories from the 2004 election where people were turned away from and even arrested at Bush rallies for simply wearing a tshirt with a slogans that went against the party line? Not for behaving badly, in other words, but for thinking badly. The comparison doesn't really work.
I'm not much of a fan of Maher, but unlike certain recent republican presidential candidates that come to mind, he can actually deal with having people who disagree with him in his vicinity; it's the unceasing, dickish disruption that made him mad.
Maher summed it up perfectly IMO.
Maher summed it up perfectly IMO.
There's a big difference between "Demanding a legitimate investigation, a probe of certain members of the US government and answers to some simple questions about what happened on September 11th" and being a 9/11 conspiracy theorist.
Its people like this that give everyone who'd like a deeper investigation into the events leading up to 9/11 (which would probably make Clinton AND Bush look bad) a bad name.
Because no major media source will touch the "truth" issue or even consider the claim that perhaps Bush had some preknowledge of the attacks, it only makes sense that these "radical" tactics would be employed: to get viewers of shows like these, which would never, ever even mention the possibility of a conspiracy, to consider a totally valid question: why are there so many unanswered questions about 9/11?
what's one unanswered question?
why they keep lying about who did it, because i know the guy who did 9.11
JMS - you're an idiot. Not much else to say there.
Kevin, you remind of the Princess Diana conspiracy theorists - no matter how many inquiries and inquests are made, if the answers given are not in line with your preconceived, self-convinced affirmations, it must be a conspiracy!
9/11 isn't 8/31, evan e
the big thing that jms got wrong was intimating bill maher has anything to do with "left"ism
I don't think Bill Maher should of had them thrown out. It's so 'Giuliani' of him to toss someone out just because you don't agree with their opinion.
Granted, it's a live TV show and it's the audience's job to listen but what about turn the off stage mikes off and behaving like a professional.
Ignore the crowd during the show and then do a show about the people and their conspiracies.
And for the record.. structural damage and fire equals building collapse.
Bill Maher and the so called 9/11 Truthers who heckled him have one thing in common:
BOTH support the official story ;
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