{"id":12806,"date":"2014-05-18T01:50:12","date_gmt":"2014-05-18T08:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=12806"},"modified":"2014-05-18T01:50:13","modified_gmt":"2014-05-18T08:50:13","slug":"bill-maher-introduces-faux-smut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/18\/bill-maher-introduces-faux-smut\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Maher Introduces Faux Smut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">You\u2019d think that the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, <em>Faux Noise<\/em>, was too much already.&#160; But since Rupert Murdock took over Harlequin Romance, we shall now have the Republican Reichsministry of Pseudo-porn.&#160; And who could be a better guy to Introduce <em>Faux Smut<\/em> than Bill Maher?<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0518FauxSmut\" style=\"float: left; display: inline\" alt=\"0518FauxSmut\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/0518FauxSmut.jpg\" width=\"360\" align=\"left\" height=\"275\" \/>On Friday, Bill Maher took on Rupert Murdoch&#8217;s acquiring of Harlequin, publisher of steamy romance novels, by reading an excerpt of erotic literature \u2014 with a conservative twist. Maher suspects that the Fox News owner&#8217;s acquisition of the publishing company may mean the books will take a rightward turn. <\/p>\n<p>The book describes &quot;a passion that burned like an underprotected embassy in Libya.&quot; One male character was &quot;widower whose wife had died in the War on Christmas.&quot;\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/media\/watch-bill-maher-reads-steamy-fair-and-balanced-conservative-porn\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8_Lkq2bktK0?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Oh my!&#160; That War on Christmas stuff really pops Republican rocks!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019d think that the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, Faux Noise, was too much already.&#160; But since Rupert Murdock took over Harlequin Romance, we shall now have the Republican Reichsministry of Pseudo-porn.&#160; And who could be a better guy to Introduce Faux Smut than Bill Maher? On Friday, Bill Maher took on Rupert Murdoch&#8217;s acquiring of <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/18\/bill-maher-introduces-faux-smut\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}