IP: more on : Seems to me I have read about this stuff before, many years ago ...

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

> Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 02:34:32 -0700
> To: farber@eff.org
> From: Stanton McCandlish <mech@eff.org>
>
> I think people forget that Bill Maher is by trade a standup comic, and
> his show, however political it might be, is comedy. He's *supposed to*
> raise eyebrows and push taste limits. That White House spokespeople
> would respond to the Bill Maher show as if it were Front Line or All
> Things Considered says a lot to me about how knee-jerk, hyperactive and
> irrational things are getting inside the Beltway due to recent events
> and concomitant pressures.  Several deep breaths are in order, methinks.
>
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