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Bill Maher, Hollywood and Real Americans

While trying to take care of my infant son in the wee hours of Sunday morning, I stumbled upon Bill Maher's HBO show. His guest was Ward Churchill, the nutty professor who has argued that those murdered at the World Trade Center were "little Eichmanns" who deserved their fate.

Maher politely disagreed with Churchill, while affirming that Churchill deserves "to be heard." Maher tried to prod Churchill into explaining the context of his statements so as to give them a more moderate meaning, though Churchill didn't really cooperate.

After a few minutes, Maher introduced the brother of a Cantor Fitzgerald employee who was murdered on 9/11. The brother said that he thinks Churchill owes an apology, but Churchill avoided giving one. Then Maher told the brother that he believes that there should be a "Why They Hate Us" pavilion at the site of the World Trade Center, and asks the brother if he agrees. When the brother said he thought that would be inappropriate, Maher - after going extremely soft on Churchill - challenges him, demanding to know if the brother is denying that the terrorists have valid reasons to hate us. The brother, obviously taken aback, says, in a defensive tone, that, well, they probably do have reasons for hating us, he's just saying the pavilion shouldn't be at the WTC.

Maher is a self-promotional jerk and isn't worth taking seriously. What is troubling is that an idiot like this is given a forum to give legitimacy to Ward Churchill and to anti-American/pro-terrorist nonsense.

I'm confident that in the real world, in blue states like New York and in red states like Tennessee, nobody but the lunatic fringe has any semblance of the idiotic ideas of Ward Churchill and Bill Maher. Sure, there may be disagreement about Iraq, about how to deal with the Arab world and Europe, and some may be quite critical of some decisions this country's leaders have made. But evil - including the murder of thousands of civilians at work or on an airplane - is recognized as evil, and there is no need to rationalize terrorism and terrorists.

This real world is apart from much of the entertainment world, in which, at best, moral relativism prevails, and at times there is outright support for evil in the guise of supporting something radical. As an observant Jewish screenwriter in Los Angeles recently wrote:

Hollywood people like to feel that they are compassionate. But their compassion is usually only reserved for leftists, or totally self-destructive losers. When my son Ariel died, only two Hollywood people came to the shiva house: my agent, a wonderful woman who is like my big sister, and a young director who I helped get his start in the business. Someone once said to me, "You have to understand, Robert, Ariel died from cancer. It was not a fashionable death like AIDS." You see, Ariel's death just made my Hollywood acquaintances uncomfortable. And so, they disappeared. If Ariel had died, God forbid, from a drug overdose or from some sexually transmitted disease, well, the shiva house would have been a total Hollywood party. This is not an exaggeration...

It's not unusual to sit in a Hollywood meeting where the first ten minutes are taken up with amazingly sophisticated chit-chat on the current world scene. The dialogue goes something like this:

"Bush is a Nazi."
"Bush is a moron."
"Bush is ruining our relations with France."
"The election was stolen."
"What about the Peace Process?"
"I can understand suicide bombers in Israel--what choice do they have?"
posted on 3/08/2005