Both Maher and panelistRob Reinercame to Lords defense, with Maher attacking the insane purity police nonsense.

He then wroteanother storywith the name of Media Matters president Angelo Carusone misspelled in the headline.

Your headline has a mistake in it, Carusone responded to him on Twitter.

Bill-Maher

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Why do you expect anyone to take you seriously when you dont take yourself seriously.

Lord replied, Sieg Heil!

the Nazi phrase he used his initial article.

Lord was soon fired from CNN, stating Nazi salutes are indefensible.

Theres gonna be a hole where Jeffrey was in a minute.

But the filmmaker later said, I think what they [CNN] did to Jeff was wrong.

No, no, seriously.

To throw him off.

He made a joke.

I mean, it was clearly a joke.

Maher had previously sided with Lord whileappearing on CNNsFareed Zakaria GPSshortly after his ousting.

Its worse every year, he had said regarding political correctness.

The things that they go after people for now.

It was a joke.

How about just move on, turn the page, go to the next thing in your life?