They are going after Bill Maher:
Only hours since Bill Maher slandered the Pope by calling
him a “Nazi” and likened the Catholic Church to a “child-
abusing religious cult,” MRC Action Team members flooded
Time-Warner/HBO with more than 10,000 emails demanding
an apology.
Nothing yet by way of response, says MRC (Media Research Center), which is going for 25,000, reminding readers that
in 2005, Maher made similar remarks that were brushed off by Time-Warner executives as being “silly” and a matter of “creative freedom.”
If you want to pitch in and haven’t, go here, where they offer “talking points,” including that “Maher is by extension attacking every person of deep religious beliefs” and that T-W should not give him a platform for such stuff.
At the very least, if Maher has freedom to talk this way, others have it to object.
Later: Reader Phil on first mention of this:
This incident is really telling when one remembers that George S. Kauffman was permanently thrown off What’s My Line for saying something like “I hope this will be the one show where White Christmas isn’t played.”
The times they have changed.
Blithe Spirit 