Bill Maher Lies About Sarah Palin to Attack American Patriots
For Friday’s final “New Rule” in his weekly monologue, leftist comedian Bill Maher pulled one of his favorite tactics: exaggerating his opponents’ argument to mutate it into an absurd strawman. As usual, Maher’s final point of the evening was reprinted at Arianna Huffington’s leftist media hub, the Huffington Post:
In her farewell speech — if only — Sarah Palin kept telling us “how she’s wired.” Now I’m not a doctor, or an electrician — but this is faulty wiring, this worldview that, in her words, “we should never apologize for our country.” Really? Never? Not for slavery? Or Japanese internment camps, or if we tortured the wrong guy at Guantanamo? The Indians? Nothing, Sarah? “The Real Housewives of Atlanta”? Shouldn’t John McCain apologize for… you?
When did intractability become a virtue? Mitt Romney’s new book is called No Apology: The Case For American Greatness. You can find it at Borders, in the “Suck-Up” section. It’s such a perfect title, combining paranoia with arrogance: “No one has yet asked me to apologize but, if someone ever does, f— them.”
But did Sarah Palin really say that America should never apologize for its mistakes? I had a suspicion that perhaps there was more context to this quote. So I went digging to find this quote’s source. And I found where RealClearPolitics (RCP) had posted it here.
According to RCP:
Gov. Sarah Palin told supporters to “continue to love our country, be proud of our country [and] never apologize for our country.”
But that’s not true. She doesn’t say that. It’s a misquote.
Watch the video. The quote is from 3:50 to 4:00. Here she actually says:
Let us continue to love our country, be proud of our country, and never apologize for being Americans.
The misquote is also in this article from Politico.
Now, my dislike of Sarah Palin is no secret. I don’t think she should have been McCain’s VP pick, I’d rather she not be the GOP’s presidential nominee in 2012, and I really don’t care for much of her rhetoric. But on this point here, on what she was actually saying, we’re in 100% agreement.
Sure, “America,” as in our elected officials, made mistakes in the past. And you know what? We’re going to make mistakes in the future. Like every other nation in the history of humanity, America is made up of flawed, imperfect human beings. But on the subject of what makes us American, and by that I mean the principles laid out in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, absolutely no apologies are needed.
Now perhaps my headline’s rebuke of Maher is a tad harsh. I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt on this one. He probably just read the quote and didn’t actually look into the context. He didn’t bother to watch the video. I mean, he’s a busy man (he’s got a lot of pot to smoke, after all.)
And he can demonstrate that he simply made a mistake — and did not intentionally lie – by choosing to correct his error on the next episode of “Real Time.” And to help make this happen, I’d encourage our NewsReal readers to help get the word out about this mistake so he can correct it. Please get this story out until it’s too loud for Maher and HBO to ignore. Click here to send HBO an email about Bill’s error, and please show him more friendliness and civility than he’s shown us all these years.
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We are giving this clown too much publicity. It might be best to ignore him.
Apparently, the left does not realize that the video of her speech is readily available on youtube, and elsewhere. Just as the left has twisted Palin’s statement about ‘death panels’, they again, don’t realize that anyone who is interested can go and read her entire statement. When all the left has is lies, distortions, and personal insults, they really have nothing. Matter of fact, the entire left is a house of cards. Palin, and the rest of the gop should make a concerted effort to knock it down completely.
Thanks for setting the record straight. Maher is a lot like Obama; They are not exactly oracles of truth.
Maher called Americans stupid. Well, he’s partly right. The ones who give him ratings and the ones who worship Obama, they’re slugs.
carterthewriter
After teaching my daughters how to read a map and use compass and what wild plants are for dinner. the main reality class was always watch the clock which really means watch your left and right and your rear watch your complete surroundings even when driving
The left are cowards they want there walls and use there money to buy intimidation and do there fighting for them.
David,
”I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt on this one.”
I would not give the benefit of doubt to any Leftist with a twisted track record like Maher’s. That, in my mind, would be a tad foolish. But that’s JMHO, you understand.
Doktor Exculpate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgCGMVGCD1Y
Sarah Palin is no dummy…in fact, her beating of Obama on the health care issue by merely posting on her Facebook page was a clear indication that she can out-think and out-maneuver the president (and the traditional media).
With Obama’s terrible policies…I say, “A NATION WILL NEED A LEADER. A LEADER WILL NEED ORDINARY AMERICANS LIKE YOU!”
This was the premise I had when I created a video (and coincidentally, Bill Maher is in this video, acting like a jacka^^!). It shows that Palin is still a heavyweight as an ordinary citizen, and that support for her and all the correct values that she champions, continue to spread throughout the nation.
WATCH the people’s reaction to Palin’s resignation (and Bill Maher):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgCGMVGCD1Y
Don’t lose hope– the right message is spreading to every part of this country, as shown. Palin’s FB followers continue to grow, but we must show others why the values that she espouses are key to keeping America great. PLEASE PASS ALONG THE VIDEO, share with friends, family, post in liberal blogs, too! Nothing upsets them more than this woman. Nothing troubles the zerObama govt more than she does. When they see this support and enthusiasm, their knees will shake.
BULL Maher *wishes* he had a great selling book or a booming audience. Another bitter loser who can’t be comforted by love or reason because he is too elitist and unpleasant, and a plain old terrible person.
I’d also like Mr. Maher to cite one republican, conservative, or any public figure from the Right who has said that America is “perfect”. (Sorry, far-Right loons don’t count.)
Yes, he’s being unfair and malicious, but his fallback is always “hey, I’m a comedian.” I suppose that gives him license to slander.
Why should America apologize to the world for slavery when slavery still exists in muslim countries, and the very tenants of communism, socialism, liberalism, marxism and islam all believe in slavery?
Plus the people taken were from one general area, so that should be the place apologized to, but again that place should apologize back because black people were sold to whites as well as captured.
Why should I apologize for something I had nothing to do with? Has anyone living today owned a slave, interned a Japanese American? Killed an Apache?
I say America should apologize for slavery when all the people on every continent over the last 5000 years that engaged in it apologize. In fact, when will it end in Asia and Africa? Still going on today.
Indians? You mean the ones that routinely fought each other, kidnapping the women and children and stealing crops and farm animals? The ones that had no concept of property ownership, except that our force is bigger than yours? Well, they lost.
Internment? Get your boy Roosevelt to apologize, Maher.
America has never engaged in any practice that every other race of people on the planet engaged in. The difference is that America ended it.
Maher and his friends Black leaders like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton shows how the civil-rights establishment has made a lucrative career out of keeping racial strife alive in America
The only one apologizing is President Obama a task he took on him self why no buddy knows. and i don’t care what other countrys think. But if you want to see a great run government health care program just ask what left of the American
Indians
I am not American: I am Irish and I live in Ireland. I have been to the United States three times. I consider that you are a wonderful nation of good, generous, kind and fair people. More importantly in present day circumstances, I not only consider, I KNOW, that were it not for the United States, Western civilization would be in very serious trouble. In fact, it would be almost finished. Stand up and be proud Americans: you have nothing to be “ashamed” of, and everything of which to be very proud. There is a breed of sad people who just love to denegrate themselves. This makes them feel good. It makes them think they are more intellectual than the rest of us, who think we are doing the best we can. These sad self-haters will never change, because they will NEVER listen to the other point of view. They are demented losers, who think that those who will not work are entitled to the same share of the goodies as those who work extremely hard. To repeat myself, be proud Americans: Western civilization depends on you and your spirit. Eamonn, Dublin, Ireland.
I do not know of any one that watchs Bill Maher. I am sure some people do friends and family but this phoney should as I have stated before remove his carbon foot print to stop global warming besides that foot is in his nazis mouth.
Dear Sirs:
Does Mr. Maher not believe in a post-racial President Obama? He needs to correct the record, and exercise his mind in using the truth for his satire. I don’t pay for HBO to endorse so called “talent” to comb internet headlines.
Sincerely trust you will be honest with your audience out of respect,
To me, america apologizing for slavery is like a drug dealer apologizing for selling crack. I like my country, but I’m also aware that there are alot of corruption in the economy and war.
I realize that there is corruption in both parties, I noticed corruption in the democratic party, and also the republican party.
The secret elite groups are made up of republicans and democrats, they all want power, the difference is methodology…?
Blue dog democrats are nothing but watered down republicans.
Anybody thats for the people I will support, anybody that uses money and power to oppress the people and take away our liberties I dont.
I deplore name calling when we should be attacking the policies and the process. For me, there are a few exceptions. Bill Maher is one of them. When I think of him at all, he reminds me of a festering pimple on the a$$ of mankind. Also, in my opinion, President Obama is the most dangerous person ever to occupy the oval office. I believe his ultimate goal is to destroy America from within.
David,
Glad you’re covering and writing/commenting on the contrived waste matter of self-proclaimed intellectual communist propagandists like Maher. This excremental runoff passes as journalism or perhaps elitist liberal opinion in the mainstrem media (MSM), but your own careful examination of words taken out of context and comments like Eamonn’s (above and great, worth repeating) are instrumental to getting the truth out. And the proliferation of misquotes by Bull Maher (borrowed your reference VidSweet) doesn’t carry very far with an increasingly informed and ever-better prepared American people. Case in point, the Town Hall Meetings and opposition to ObamaCare. Can’t fool us any longer, and we’re fighting mad. Comments of Julie Trevor, Greg, Patrick of Atlantis, The Doktor, VidSweet, John, Black, Robert, FiftyFifty, Eamonn, CarterTheWriter, and Andy above are acknowledged, agreed with and echoed by this reader/writer.
Maher is nice looking, smart, educated, has a sly sense of humor, etc. This makes him a dangerous personality as to mishandling truth. He comes off as funny with his wisecracks, but his aim is to distorth truth, beginning with religious truth. He is to be pitied for he has no idea what finality waits such as he. He simply is not honest in his perspctives. He has an axe to grind. He probably has no real idea of what objective truth is and would not recognize it if he heard it. Unfortunate, indeed, for he will someday give account.
Ignoring problems doesn’t make them go away. Ignorance and malice must be confronted.
According to Maher, the majority of Americans are stupid. With that logic, since the majority of Americans voted for Obama, then those who voted for Obama are stupid.
Don’t forget our fellow patriots who know that Saddam caused the 9/11 attack or the street goons on Jay Leno who can’t find Great Britian on a map and think that JFK “freed the slaves.”
Agree! Unfortunately the lefts pundits, like Maher know their groupies aren’t going to check the facts for themselves, they just lap it up & repeat it until it becomes “truth”.
And “Bill Maher Lies About Sarah Palin to Attack American Patriots” – why let the truth stand in the way of a good slam! If Maher were to be truthful, he’d have no show – he does have bills to pay (on a side note: this is partially why Dr. Richard Lindzen from MIT -atmospheric science – says young budding scientist don’t fess up to the problems with global warming science – they need to eat)
Then, Keith who amongst them do you support? I have yet to find one that demonstrates the courage to stand up against the money given them in order to become elected.
It is not so much him we should fear, but those who put him in the vicarious position he now finds himself. There again, we have drifted for the subject of this dissertation.
Don’t believe Obama when he says there are no death panels in his Healthcare fantasies. I for one became closer to my own family after my brother and sister and I went before a death panel for our mother and dad. Thank heavens we did. And a further panel with a social worker even came to our parents’ home with all of us there…
Kies is all that people likw Maher and the left have they are simply the worst people on the face of the earth. I would not even have a cup of coffee with the trash.
I could support Palin right now and I can think of a couple others.
No, I’m serious about that. It’s not like he saw the video and KNOWS what she actually said. He probably just saw what RCP and Politico reported and went from there. The test is going to be if he’s willing to correct the error if it’s brought to his attention.