{"id":717,"date":"2004-10-09T14:04:17","date_gmt":"2004-10-09T18:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=717"},"modified":"2004-10-09T14:04:17","modified_gmt":"2004-10-09T18:04:17","slug":"last-nights-slugfest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=717","title":{"rendered":"Last Night’s Slugfest"},"content":{"rendered":"

No, not the Presidential Debate, but very<\/i> heated Real Time with Bill Maher<\/i> that followed it on HBO. If you are able to check in on one of HBO’s reruns today or over the next few, do yourself the favor.<\/p>\n

For now, all I’ll say is that it was quite a knock-down drag-out brawl largely from top to bottom. It was instructive, to say the least, watching panelist Tony Snow of Fox News firmly outside of the protective environs of “Fair and Balanced”. Beyond that, if I can transcribe Maher’s closing “New Rule” later on today I will try to do so here. It was both brutal and right on the money.<\/p>\n

For the record, it’s America’s loss (and Disney\/ABC’s eternal shame) that Maher is not on network TV five nights a week anymore.<\/p>\n

One quickie from last night; One of Maher’s monologue jokes (paraphrasing here) “Bush was asked by one of the questioners in the debate tonight to name three mistakes he’s made since being in office. Bush replied, agreeing to last week’s debate, tonight’s debate and next week’s debate.”<\/p>\n

Yup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No, not the Presidential Debate, but very heated Real Time with Bill Maher that followed it on HBO. If you are able to check in on one of HBO’s reruns today or over the next few, do yourself the favor. For now, all I’ll say is that it was quite a knock-down drag-out brawl largely […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=717"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}