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Bill Maher Backs Off Cheney Death Wish
Bill Maher is backing away from his comments that it would be better if Vice President Dick Cheney were dead, saying "I don’t wish him dead.” The political humorist stirred up controversy on his HBO show "Real Time” while discussing a failed assassination attempt on Cheney and comments on the Huffington Post Web site regarding readers’ disappointment that Cheney had not been killed. Now on that site, Maher writes: "On Saturday, the Web site NewsBusters.org posted a story under the headline ‘Bill Maher Sorry the Assassination Attempt on Dick Cheney Failed.’ "There’s just one problem: As a fair reading of the show’s transcript makes clear, I never said those words... "Don’t get me wrong: I’ve never joined the Dick Cheney Fan Club. But what I said Friday – and what I believe – is that the Vice President has presided over a bungled execution of a war in which thousands of our bravest continue to die. And I believe that were he not in power, our troops would likely come home sooner. But I don’t wish him dead.”
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What Maher did say on his show is: "I have zero doubt that if Dick Cheney was not in power, people wouldn’t be dying needlessly tomorrow ... I’m just saying if he did die, other people, more people would live. That’s a fact.” Some critics aren’t buying into Maher’s attempt to play down the controversy. "Bill Maher is a vile and repugnant human being,” L. Brent Bozell, president of the conservative Media Research Center, told the New York Post. "Anyone who wishes for the death of the Vice President in a time of war is, at best, a very sick puppy.” © NewsMax 2007. All rights reserved.
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