Noel Sheppard gives us a few examples to easily refute Maher’s dishonest assertion.
Too bad Steele couldn’t think of anything more recent like Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fl.) saying Congressman Paul Ryan’s (R-Wisc.) budget was “a death trap for some seniors.”
Or Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.) saying that freshmen House Republicans came to Washington to kill women.
Or Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) saying shutting down the government is “the functional equivalent of bombing innocent civilians.”
Or Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Mary.) saying, “This entire debate has involved throwing women and children under the bus.”
Frankly, all four of these comments were far more inflammatory and offensive than what Kyl said concerning abortions and Planned Parenthood, but Maher either has never heard them or was lying.
Better yet, Maher himself said on NBC’s “Tonight Show” shortly after the shootings in Tuscon, “The right-wing loves, the go-to rhetoric for them is, ‘Wouldn’t it be fun to kill the people we disagree with?'”