during the last episode or the latest
episode of Bill Maher he was talking to
Anthony Weiner and they discussed the
Boston bombing and what the Red Sox did
to remember the victims of the Boston
bombing so he said something that people
are you know taking very personally they
think it's controversial I want to read
you his exact quote and then we will
decide whether or not we agree with him
Bill Maher said the following so the Red
Sox won the World Series congratulation
Red Sox so the parade they go to the
place where the Marathon bombing took
place they put the World Series statue
there and they sing god Bless America
and they say Boston strong and they
chant USA you know it was again a bad
day three people died that's terrible
more remained that's horrible but
unfortunately that happens every day in
car accidents and everything else I mean
your city was not leveled by Godzilla I
watched it I saw it was funny
okay wow you're voting not guilty right
off land voting not guilty it's like
that you know there's a because there's
a group mine thing I mean he gets to say
it and you get to disagree with it but
it's not it's not controversial and that
we all have to think we have to honor
everything the exact same way at some
point it got tedious and I felt stopped
I felt had taken a look I wasn't in
Boston either for it happening or for
the moment of honoring but I felt like I
think we've honored this enough and now
it seems like you're milking it for your
own benefit the baseball team that plays
in Boston is not connected to that that
has nothing to do with it
tragedies also happened in st. Louis
tragedies happened in Detroit but
somehow because these people were
victims of two crazy chechnyans
that somehow that is worse than what
happened to what mr. McBride's that her
last name was that right so I don't know
man I
and I hate god Bless America and I think
the worst song ever written
yeah and it's and Irving Berlin wrote
this piece of offensive song that
somehow God if there is one bestows our
greatness on us that he doesn't grant to
the overwhelming majority of the world
is nonsense and stupid and offensive and
so but I'm offended by that but nobody
gives a so I don't care what Bill
Maher said I thought was fine and he was
mostly kidding uh and but Anthony Weiner
did say rather
using lead to that he was like what's
wrong with you is the next moment and
that's hard to argue with that too I was
like yeah alright well you don't want to
be that sort of grumpy about it but I
don't see why this is something that got
under Bill Maher's skin okay so the
Boston Red Sox felt the need to do that
to remember the victims of something
terrible that happened okay I mean I
can't think of anything that I would be
less offended or less annoyed by I don't
even find it a little annoying so I just
feel that it's strange that he had this
random rant on what happened you know
during it was partly correct what the
quote doesn't quite give doesn't quite
put into perspective was that it was
sort of I took it as part of it was like
again like we keep doing this we keep
going back to it but I get it right it
happened last April and this is the Red
Sox they just started the season then
and this was the end of season they won
the World Series so I guess this was one
final this is what I know but you know
what you actually swung we believe it or
not been okay and I'll tell you why look
to me I I think it's a good thing that
we are really worried about three people
dying and a lot of people being wounded
etc yes I know in the old days they had
Hiroshima and Nagasaki and a hundred
thousand people would die at once and
yes that's much worse etc but I'm glad
we're in the days were like we're really
really pissed about three people dying
on a lot of people being named in a
bombing I'm glad that that makes us
angry and that's the new stand if that's
the new stand that's great right I don't
want more deaths for us to get pissed
and do Boston strong etc but the part
you swung me on is you know so Virginia
Tech obviously we lost a lot more people
right now it wasn't a bombing right okay
and it's a little apples and oranges
right and I can name a hundred shootings
where we lost more people right but
there's an element of the Boston thing
like oh the Muslims did this you know
and it's and I don't even want to do the
Muslim things more like it was like
terrorism so it was extra bad right
whereas like it wasn't terrorism at
Virginia Tech sir they're not Virginia
strong like they didn't survive a
terrorist attack so it's not I I don't
think it's about the body count
necessarily it's about the people okay
let's say I live in whatever town
Virginia tax and I hear
oh my god there's been a shooting at
Virginia Tech okay they got the guy he's
on campus this is a bombs gone off and
now they're driving around and they
probably have dozens of other bombs that
they're gonna let off oh and now they're
shooting people oh and they're locking
the city down so it was it was the thing
of each person felt like they were
probably involved in it like if you
lived in New York on 9/11 walking home
from downtown to you know the Upper West
Side you were like it was surreal so it
traumatized the whole city traumatizes
the city so that's all it is but I mean
I get your thing it's like you know and
I get that too I get it it did
traumatize the city definitely and
there's an effect that sports teams are
sort of representative of the community
and and they are and you feel connected
with people because of the sports teams
right or wrong we do but you know like
on whatever December 14th uh you know I
think it's December 14th uh you know you
know new the Red Sox are New England's
team and Newtown is in New England and
that was a horrible tragedy and we don't
I don't know it just it felt like I get
tired of it and I and I I'm half kidding
but I mean we sing god bless america
on Sundays at every baseball game now uh
at the seventh-inning
you know since 2001 they sing it every
seventh inning at Yankee State
and Shea Stadium in New York and I just
I I hate it every time he did he did he
did he you know a lot of people don't
believe in God they don't believe in the
same God I certainly don't believe God
cares more about Americans he cares
about anybody else in fact he really I
care less about Americans than everybody
else because most of the world needs
much more help than we do so I just it
Dyke it bothers me that that's the way
we think it's okay to celebrate we all
agree on this that whether we agree or
disagree with marks comments that it's
not a big deal that he set him right
like so and again I got no love for Bill
Maher okay but you get to say whatever
you want and that's that's the point of
his shows through the window so you know
look he does a show that's supposed to
be politically incorrect I know that's
the last was his the name of his last
show but that's the point of this show
too
and so he was politically incorrect have
added us yeah everybody
that yeah yeah you don't have to agree
with him but he gets to say what he
wants
yeah listen so my point is like I might
not agree but I'm not outraged by what
Bill Maher said okay that's what he
thinks