{"id":3600,"date":"2009-08-01T08:36:26","date_gmt":"2009-08-01T13:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=3600"},"modified":"2009-08-01T08:36:26","modified_gmt":"2009-08-01T13:36:26","slug":"bill-maher-takes-on-the-birthers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=3600","title":{"rendered":"Bill Maher Takes On The Birthers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[digg-reddit-me]I haven&#8217;t commented <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">much<\/span> at all on the &#8220;birther&#8221; movement. It just seems too stupid to discuss. And yet, a recent poll shows that <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/53350\/only-42-percent-of-republicans-say-the-president-was-born-in-america\">42% of Republicans believe that Obama was born in America<\/a>. But Bill Maher made a good point tonight &#8211; which I think is worth sharing:<br \/>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" 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\/JZ7CJb0YxkM&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>An appropriately somber message delivered with humor: ignoring stupidity doesn&#8217;t make it go away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[digg-reddit-me]I haven&#8217;t commented much at all on the &#8220;birther&#8221; movement. It just seems too stupid to discuss. And yet, a recent poll shows that 42% of Republicans believe that Obama was born in America. But Bill Maher made a good point tonight &#8211; which I think is worth sharing: An appropriately somber message delivered with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[143,5,4,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-humor","category-politics","category-videos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-W4","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3600"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3602,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3600\/revisions\/3602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}