This clip is from the show politically incorrect.
(January 11, 2001)

Maher later Admits He Was Incorrect.

"Politically Incorrect" host Bill Maher indicated on Thursday that it was incorrect of him to compare "retarded kids" to dogs.

In an interview with the New York Daily News

Maher remarked. "I just said something that should never have been said. ...There is no excuse for it because no excuse would be adequate."
Maher's comments were underscored by ABC Entertainment Co-chairman Stu Bloomberg, who issued a statement saying,

"We feel Bill went significantly over the line of political incorrectness, and we apologize profusely for the insensitivity of his remarks."
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The beginning of the end (of the show) came shortly after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks when Maher said,

"We have been the cowards, lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away, that's cowardly, staying in the airplane when it hits the building - say what you want about it, it's not cowardly."

Advertisers such as Sears and Federal Express immediately pulled their ads and some stations stopped airing the program.

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