Turns out this past weekend was filled with ignorant comments. Bill Maher, host of HBO's "Real Time", had this to say on Friday about the failed assassination attempt on Dick Cheney's life...
"I'm just saying if he did die, other people, more people would live. That's a fact"
That is so far from fact and lacking in deductive reasoning I'm not sure where to begin. By that "cut off the head" logic, Cheney is making the decisions and without him the war would abruptly come to an end. Does he really think that Dick's assassination would end this war? That Bush would not be further emboldened but rather decide to throw in the towel? Dick's death would become a rallying cry, boosting Bush's determination. The war deaths would continue to mount, if not more so as calls for withdrawal get suppressed by renewed calls of support. The comment was just stupid, but, given the divided state America is in right now and the plummeting support for Bush and Cheney, Maher will probably receive less criticism than Coulter, even though both remarks lacked anything resembling thought.
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