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| 'Politically Incorrect' is toast |
| 2002-05-14 |
| ABC will announce today that "Politically Incorrect," its late-night comedy-discussion program, will go off the air in January. ABC had been expected to make changes to its late-night programming, with "Politically Incorrect" seen as particularly vulnerable to cancellation. The show's host, Bill Maher, had alienated some advertisers, ABC executives and even the White House press secretary, Ari Fleischer, with a comment he made soon after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11. Maher took issue with characterizations of the hijackers as cowards, arguing that "we have been the cowards, lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away." Somehow we knew this was coming. We're just surprised Maher's going to last until next January. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |