rawstory.com — "Show me a man wearing an American flag pin in his lapel, and I'll show you an assh**e," says Bill Maher during a recent New Rules segment ... Quips Maher: "Why don't you just stab the Statue of Liberty in the eye while bitch-slapping a 9/11 widow?"
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jakeson2Oct 14, 2007
I did not know that my flag pin was a perfect mirror. No wonder Mayer thought he saw an assh**e.
anarchogothOct 15, 2007
Please do not call them patriots. At the very least put the word in quotes. They are not patriots, they are nationalists.Patriotism is love of country.Nationalism is love of government.
phillesh69Oct 20, 2007
You should know that the folks in the fly-over states, better known as "dumbf**kistan", are mostly republican. Unfortunately, they're not conservatives, they are extremist right-wing militants who cannot stand the sight of anyone with darker skin than they have. They worship the neocon crazies like William Kristol, Podheretz, Cheney, Rumsfeld, et al. They believe that we are in a fight for our survival against half-educated arabs with extremist views that pale in comparison to their own extremist views, and many are half-educated themselves. Products of public schools.I still believe that anyone who goes along with the crazy neocons are the real traitors. Anyone who thinks it's a good idea to abandon constitutional principles when under duress was never a patriotic person to begin with. The people that demand that we uphold the constitution, to the letter, even under duress (especially when it is mostly an imaginary threat, anyway) are truly patriotic. It takes more guts to say that our system is right and can work even in the face of a threat than it does to run away from it at the first sign of trouble. To believe that we need to "bend the rules" because of this "new and menacing threat" is nothing more than a lack of faith in the rule of law we've established, and thrived under, as a nation. Cowards. True patriots will always demand that we abide the constitution first, in everything we do as a nation. Otherwise, what is a principle that you can abandon out of fear? Nothing more than a quaint notion that has absolutely no meaning in the real world. In which case, we are no better than a third world nation.
phillesh69Oct 20, 2007
Okay. You have a truly distorted view of reality AND history.First off, you're not saying that he's less patriotic, just that he seems a bit anti-american. I'll leave that one for you to ponder, but just let me say, someone who is anti-american, if they are an american, must be a tad bit unpatriotic, don't you think?Second, being a rebel is what CREATED this country. The acceptance of rebellious attitudes is why this nation has become a strong, powerful and influential world player. We, as americans, never bow down to an authority and just accept things as they are, we question things, we argue about ideas, we fight for the things we believe in. When we see that our government is going in the wrong direction, we SPEAK UP. We don't just go along. We don't just swill some more beer and cheer our favorite race car driver, we get involved.Oh wait, that was what we used to stand for and believe in. Now it's just about killing brown people and fearing everything and giving up our constitutional principles and American values for a fleeting and false sense of security. Patriots abandon freedom for security in this new world order. It makes sense though, doesn't it? Since they hate us for our freedoms, and since this is a nation of cowards who huddle around the fox news channel, we should abandon our freedoms in order to prevent them from attacking us again!
phillesh69Oct 20, 2007
You, sir, are the first person on Digg to demonstrate proper reading comprehension.Yes. That was the impetus for Bill Maher's statement, and the point of this article.
phillesh69Oct 20, 2007
Mayer is a musician. Maher is a comedian with a show on HBO.
autorotateNov 6, 2008
what does europe have to be proud of anyway?