{"id":3865,"date":"2011-01-15T11:23:52","date_gmt":"2011-01-15T19:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3865"},"modified":"2011-01-15T11:45:06","modified_gmt":"2011-01-15T19:45:06","slug":"bill-maher-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/15\/bill-maher-is-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Maher is Back!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">This last week has been one of the most emotionally charged in my memory.\u00a0 September 11, the assassinations of JFK, RFK and MLK, the 1968 police riot in Chicago, and the Kent State murders come to mind.\u00a0 I am the last to take these events lightly, but there comes a time that we all need to stop crying long enough to laugh.\u00a0 For that purpose few are better than Bill Maher, and I have a couple clips from his season opener to close out this week\u2019s articles for you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">In the first he has some fun with Sarah.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xEKjbQOYQHo?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xEKjbQOYQHo?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">In the second, he buggers the Tea Party.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/aD1I2mxjh6I?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/aD1I2mxjh6I?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u201c<\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The Founding Fathers would have hated your guts.\u201d\u00a0 I would have used a term other than hate, but in humor there is often truth.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This last week has been one of the most emotionally charged in my memory.\u00a0 September 11, the assassinations of JFK, RFK and MLK, the 1968 police riot in Chicago, and the Kent State murders come to mind.\u00a0 I am the last to take these events lightly, but there comes a time that we all need <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/15\/bill-maher-is-back\/' 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":[141,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plus","category-politics","category-141-id","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\/3865","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=3865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}