{"id":3130,"date":"2005-03-05T03:13:42","date_gmt":"2005-03-05T11:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/03\/05\/bill-maher-jumps-shark\/"},"modified":"2005-03-05T03:13:42","modified_gmt":"2005-03-05T11:13:42","slug":"bill-maher-jumps-shark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/05\/bill-maher-jumps-shark\/","title":{"rendered":"Maher jumps shark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tTonight&#8217;s Bill Maher was the most unbelievably bad episode of an intolerably formulaic program. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzmachine.com\/archives\/2005_03_04.html#009198\">BuzzMachine <\/a> has a transcript of the segment with pseudo Indian Ward Churchill that was the most glaring example of leading the witness I&#8217;ve ever seen. Maher is still playing the victim over his firing from ABC when his show ceased to be amusing, and he tried to rope Churchill into his cause. But all it did was illustrate that people involved in controversy over idiotic ass-kissing generally deserve what they get.<\/p>\n<p>In Churchill&#8217;s case it&#8217;s not at all important what he said about the people in the WTC getting what was coming to them &#8211; he&#8217;s too inarticulate and plain stupid to hold any job at a university above shelving books, and even that&#8217;s a stretch.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re becoming a nation of morons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight&#8217;s Bill Maher was the most unbelievably bad episode of an intolerably formulaic program. BuzzMachine has a transcript of the segment with pseudo Indian Ward Churchill that was the most glaring example of leading the witness I&#8217;ve ever seen. Maher is still playing the victim over his firing from ABC when his show ceased to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/05\/bill-maher-jumps-shark\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Maher jumps shark&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-Ou","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}