{"id":4230,"date":"2011-03-06T06:35:36","date_gmt":"2011-03-06T14:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=4230"},"modified":"2011-03-06T06:35:36","modified_gmt":"2011-03-06T14:35:36","slug":"maher-newters-newt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/06\/maher-newters-newt\/","title":{"rendered":"Maher Newters Newt!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Of all the Republican liars exploring runs for the presidency in 2012, few are bigger hypocrites that Newt Gingrich, infamous for shutting down the government and philandering in the extreme.&#160; Bill Maher built part of his New Rules segment around Newt, and showed no mercy at all.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"6Newter\" border=\"0\" alt=\"6Newter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/6Newter.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"355\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Newt Gingrich seems primed to run on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/02\/27\/us\/politics\/27newt-gingrich.html\" target=\"_blank\">value-based campaign platform<\/a> as he explores his White House bid in earnest this week. And Bill Maher couldn&#8217;t help but point out the seeming hypocrisy in that decision. The &quot;Real Time&quot; host dedicated a portion of his &quot;New Rule&quot; segment last night to Gingrich &#8212; on his third marriage after two acrimonious and scandal-clad divorces &#8212; concluding &quot;I don&#8217;t think actual newts are this slimy.&quot;\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/politics\/war_room\/2011\/03\/05\/bill_maher_newt_gingrich_exploratory_committee\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Salon<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here\u2019s the video:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"421\" marginheight=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/videos.mediaite.com\/embed\/player\/?layout=&amp;playlist_cid=&amp;media_type=video&amp;content=C6ZWZ222LKCZ8J6D&amp;read_more=1&amp;widget_type_cid=svp\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" allowtransparency=\"allowtransparency\" marginwidth=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Don\u2019t you just love the way Maher cuts to the heart of the matter in hilarious fashion?<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of all the Republican liars exploring runs for the presidency in 2012, few are bigger hypocrites that Newt Gingrich, infamous for shutting down the government and philandering in the extreme.&#160; Bill Maher built part of his New Rules segment around Newt, and showed no mercy at all. Newt Gingrich seems primed to run on a <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/06\/maher-newters-newt\/' 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-4230","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\/4230","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=4230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}