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"Muslims killed us on 9/11." Rarely has one brief sentence sparked such bitter controversy. Ever since Bill O'Reilly uttered the now-infamous claim on an episode of "The View," sparking an on-camera walk-out by Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar, pundits on the left and right have been debating the veracity of O'Reilly's statement.
"It's a lie!," shrieked Salon.com's Joan Walsh. "Bill O'Reilly is an ignorant racist," tweeted the Huffington Post's Andy Ostroy. And MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan called O'Reilly a "liar" and a "jackass fool." But liberals were in no way united on the subject. On his HBO talk show Real Time, Bill Maher expressed a different view:
"I just want to ask, and I hate to agree with Bill O'Reilly, but why is it an outrage to say a factually true statement. Muslims did kill us on 9/11…I don't understand why this is a hanging offense. I really don't."
Maher even got the ultra-far left Markos Moulitsas (founder of the Daily Kos) to admit that it's "demonstrably true" that "the Muslims were behind 9/11."