On CNN's Larry King Live on Friday night, Bill Maher, host of ABC's Politically Incorrect, took a swipe at John Ashcroft, but Maher amazingly made the case that the media are biased to the left on at least one subject.
On Ashcroft, Maher claimed: “I always thought he was a scary, creepy guy, but now that there are even scarier and creepier people in the world, I'm kind of glad he's on our side. You know, it's like, hey, we have a nut, too.”
Later, Maher insisted: “I'm like the only guy on TV who defends Israel. The media is so biased.”
King: “You think they're anti-Israel?”
Maher: “Of course they are. They don't, because they don't understand what happened in that area of the world throughout the last century. They're occupied. That's a term that's just used on all newscasts. That territory is not occupied, OK? The term 'occupied' refers to a country that used to be a country. There was no Palestinian Arab country, ever.”
When King wondered, “Why do you think the media would be anti-Israel?”, Maher suggested: “They're not anti-Israel, they just don't know what happened there. And it's a lot easier to take the side of the underdog. You know? I saw a report on the news just the other day, a Palestinian girl who said, you know, 'I can't get through the checkpoint, and I only have my books, and the Israeli soldiers are so mean.' Well, yeah, but that's because a lot of your brothers are blowing up their pizza parlors.”
(This update courtesy of the Media Research Center.)
