Bill Maher is that rare thing: a media figure unafraid to say what he really thinks. When he intervened in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, suggesting that it's better to deal intelligently with terrorism than to indulge in absurdist name-calling, many people, including me, supported him. We were dismayed by the cancellation of Politically Incorrect
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[1] http://sojo.net/blogs/culture-watch
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[4] http://sojo.net/letter-to-web-editor?post=Bill%20Maher%27s%20Religulous%3A%20Polemic%20Based%20on%20Cynical%20Preconceptions
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