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White House keeps heat on ABC's Maher


The White House once again slammed comments made by "Politically Incorrect" gabber Bill Maher about America's fighting forces, this time suggesting that the latenight host is no different from people who utter intolerant statements about American Arabs in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

WASHINGTON — The White House once again slammed comments made by “Politically Incorrect” gabber Bill Maher about America’s fighting forces, this time suggesting that the latenight host is no different from people who utter intolerant statements about American Arabs in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Although Maher has publicly apologized to those viewers he may have offended, the backlash won’t go away, with several midmarket ABC affils still not airing the program. Fleischer equated Maher’s comments to a phone message he received at the White House suggesting that all Muslims in this country be rounded up.

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