{"id":17754,"date":"2015-11-25T09:38:29","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T17:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=17754"},"modified":"2015-11-25T09:38:29","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T17:38:29","slug":"colbert-nails-the-hairball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/25\/colbert-nails-the-hairball\/","title":{"rendered":"Colbert Nails the Hairball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Because we\u2019re about to start a long holiday weekend, I\u2019ll leave you with something entertaining.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1125Hairball\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"1125Hairball\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/1125Hairball.jpg\" width=\"360\" align=\"left\" height=\"240\">I&#8217;d be laughing a little harder if all <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2015\/07\/25\/donald_trump_is_an_actual_fascist_what_his_surging_popularity_says_about_the_gop_base\/\" target=\"_blank\">this fascist<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/digbysblog.blogspot.co.uk\/2015\/11\/on-f-word.html\" target=\"_blank\">was doing<\/a> was giving comedians like Stephen Colbert some food for fodder. That said I am grateful the comedic relief when what passes for supposedly &#8220;straight news&#8221; looks more and more like something out of The Onion, due to one of our political parties having lost their damned minds.  <\/p>\n<p>As we already discussed here, Donald Trump screwed the pooch once again, and just made up stuff about seeing thousands of Muslims in New Jersey cheering the attacks on 9-11, and then changed his story but justified it <a href=\"http:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2015\/11\/trump-justifies-9-11-lie-i-have-worlds\" target=\"_blank\">by saying that he has &#8220;the world&#8217;s best memory.&#8221;<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>Colbert had a field day with that one, along with Trump pretending that he has the ability to see into the future, as he did when he claimed that he predicted that Osama bin Laden was going to be causing some trouble for the United States. As Colbert noted, who could have seen that coming?\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2015\/11\/stephen-colbert-gives-thanks-donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\">Crooks and Liars<\/a>&gt;  <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"337\" src=\"\/\/embed.crooksandliars.com\/embed\/9ehKLNc3\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If Hairball had the world&#8217;s greatest memory, he&#8217;d know where he saw the video. I can do this too {Spooky Music}.<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I predict that, next December, Hairball will NOT be president!!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because we\u2019re about to start a long holiday weekend, I\u2019ll leave you with something entertaining. I&#8217;d be laughing a little harder if all this fascist was doing was giving comedians like Stephen Colbert some food for fodder. That said I am grateful the comedic relief when what passes for supposedly &#8220;straight news&#8221; looks more and <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/25\/colbert-nails-the-hairball\/' 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-17754","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\/17754","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=17754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}