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By Ginger Marks Oct 10, 2007

Bill Maher is nothing if not controversial but apparently even he will draw the line at some things. It appears that a group that considers itself the 9/11 truth movement has been hammering Bill Maher with requests that he sing their tune on his HBO program "Real Time With Bill Maher." On the show on September 14 he offered this.

Bill Maher Versus the "9/11 Truthers" Getting Ugly

"Crazy people who still think the government brought down the Twin Towers in a controlled explosion," the comedian jabbed, "have to stop pretending that I'm the one who's being naive." Ouch - that likely left a mark.

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But he wasn't finished and continued, "How big a lunatic do you have to be to watch two giant airliners packed with jet fuel slam into buildings on live TV, igniting a massive inferno that burned for two hours, and then think 'well, if you believe that was the cause," he continued, adding that people should "stop asking me to raise this ridiculous topic on the show and start asking your doctor if Paxil is right for you."

Good to see Bill offering up some free health care advice. The folks that Maher calls crackpots have now made a YouTube video. Activists Katy Kurtzman and Stewart Howe take to the Internet to tell the comedian that they are not crazy. They mock Maher and flip him off.

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But Raw Story reports that Bruno Bruhwiler, who edited the green screen video response to those charges, says Maher wasn't being fair to the greater 9/11 Truth movement. "Sure you have to take some of it with a grain of salt," he said of particularly outlandish conspiracy theories that the majority of the group doesn't stand by, "but in general, a picture emerges."

As Bill would say - that picture would be of crazy people.

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