I am five years late for this question:"did anybody agree with the firing of Bill Maher from "PI"?

Question

Days after 9/11 Bill Maher made what was considered a badly timed comment about the terrorist act.

Answer 1

The owners of the studio have a right to cancel any shows that they want. I don't know if this was a matter of the public outcry or of ABC firing him preemptively because they did not want to appear supportive of him, but they have the right to decide what they want to air. It is unfortunate, as I believe that Bill Maher is a very intelligent and well spoken individual who should have a voice in the media, although I often do not agree with his views. However, his remark was poorly timed, and he should have known better. I would say that in hindsight, five years later, I do not agree with the firing, but ABC had every right to do it. Bill Maher has moved on to a new show on HBO, and his continued success is the loss of ABC.

Answer 2

I may be part of the minority opinion here but I have a lot of respect for Bill Maher for saying what he did. The name of his show *was* "Politically Incorrect," so could you really expect anything else? I think Maher was trying to say that "coward" is the wrong term to use to describe the 9/11 terrorists because it takes a certain amount of 'courage' to die for something you believe in, even if that 'something' is destroying America.

A "coward" would harm others while going to extreme lengths to avoid harm themselves. Maher was saying that the word "coward" was being misused, plain and simple, since the terrorists aboard the planes were willing to die upon carrying out their plans.

I understand the gist of what Maher was trying to say but most people either read it the wrong way or didn't try to understand it at all. People were oversensitive at the time due to the recent events so once they heard "terrorists" and "courage" in the same sentence, they freaked out and decided to lash out at Maher. And I imagine he must have been a much easier target to the American public than the unattainable terrorist enemy.

To put this in perspective, Bush called the terrorists "clever" so how is Maher's statement much different? There are certain unappealing truths we have to admit about terrorist culture and Maher was simply exposing these truths.

Answer 3

I always thought Bill Maher was a big-mouthed, obnoxious little putz, so it didn't exactly break my heart to see him go. Still, the grounds for his termination was unconstitutional, I believe, not to mention ridiculous (after all, his show was called "Politically Incorrect," not "Warm Fuzzy Thoughts with Bill Maher." Politically incorrect comments were to be expected, I would imagine...) Bottom line: we're all getting hypersensitive about everything being said or implied in the media. Banning certain words, phrases, and ideas from the media is just putting a Band-Aid over the much bigger issue, which is people's lack of respect and love for other people. Rather than "fix" political and racial slurs by firing big-mouthed talk show hosts and adding more words and phrases to the ever-growing list of social taboos, we need to get to the root of the problem and re-teach our society them meaning of etiquette, breeding, manners, and LOVE.

Answer 4

Hell yeah, Saying terrorits are warriors and condoning 9-11, yeah he along with Rosie should be fired. Bill Mahr is A left-wing nut. He's making a huge deal out of Bush firing 8 U.S.Attoerny's but it was ok for Bill Clinton to fire 93, Last time I checked 93 is more than 8.

Answer 5

i do not definitely understand why you're offended. he's announcing that one concept has as a lot validity as yet another. i might want to say there's a minimum of as a lot info for the pasta monster as there is for the divinity of Jesus. i'm under no circumstances confident, reality study, that there is adequate info to believe Jesus ever lived contained in the first position, yet allow's set that aside and stipulate that he did. Then there continues to be no info of the divinity. i imagine Maher meant you may want to be careful searching down your nostril at human beings's beliefs, in case you your self go with to believe in an theory for which there is little or no objective info. perfect? I recommend, isn't there a line contained in the Bible on the topic of eliminating lumber out of your human being eye beforehand annoying about the mote in a neighbor's eye? i'm a Pagan, through ways, not an atheist. i do not attack you on your concept, nor do I declare to have extra info of my Gods than you do of yours, yet i do not make interesting of human beings for his or her beliefs, no be counted what they are. i'd imagine they are baseless or in accordance to unfavourable reasoning, or perhaps merely strange, yet they have the right to their evaluations.

Answer 6

They did him a favor and I actually started out hating the man with a passion. I didn't agree with a single thing he said (at first).

I also ended up behind him (he's short...like 5'8") and his gigantic gf at a club in Hollywood (Perversion). I talked to him a bit, told him I hated everything he said, and he ended up buying me drinks later. He was a really cool guy actually.

He was on at 12:35am when that show was out. (used to watch it religiously even back then)

Now he's obviously on HBO during a better time slot and he can say just about anything he wants to now.

I'm gonna geek out a second, excuse me: It's like when Darth Vader chopped down Obi-wan inside the Death Star and he said something like "You will only make me stronger."

So ya, it's just like that. heh :)

Answer 7

badly timed indeed, if he made it today, he'd be a hero.