General Discussion

3-pot pot pot!, 4-1950s parenting was great, 5-you kids get off my lawn!

*** But I was actually surprised several years ago when he hosted the Dinesh D'SOUZA jerk, who was present on Politically Incorrect when MAHER made the comment that the hijackers of 9-11 were not cowards because of the danger of what they did, which is what the kneejerk hysteria got him off the air for. What he said was plainly just about the physical courage, not about the ideological context.

I don't remember anything about D'SOUZA's appearance post/9-11 and in all the years of MAHER's raw wound nothing he ever said about D'SOUZA playing a part. But in this later appearance, MAHER, who *never* shows any vulnerability no matter whether he's schooled and always blusters back, shockingly went to pieces groveling and whining in front of D'SOUZA. MAHER actually crouched forward in the interview part seat, *supplicatingly*!

MAHER rehashed his having been cancelled by what he said, then practically wept saying to D'SOUZA, paraphrasing here: I got cancelled but I was only supporting/reinforcing/validating what YOU were saying! - like, how snowflakingly UNFAIR!

D'SOUZA sat impassively, no sympathy, no acknowledgment. MAHER had to put himself back together and went on with the show.

*** FUN FACT: D'SOUZA was a boyfriend of Laura INGRAHAM's in their school days at Dartmouth - EWwww for both of them - where they engaged in such lover-ly things as harassing Gay students by Outing them with flyers on trees on campus. For more dirt on them and other wingnuts of that generation, see Blinded by the Right, by our erstwhile nemesis David BROCK who underwent an epiphany and converted to head Media Matters.