{"id":26,"date":"2002-05-14T16:01:02","date_gmt":"2002-05-14T16:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/macphoenix.com\/?p=26"},"modified":"2002-05-14T16:01:02","modified_gmt":"2002-05-14T16:01:02","slug":"politically-incorrect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/2002\/05\/politically-incorrect\/","title":{"rendered":"Politically Incorrect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hate to be so paranoid. But when a Bushie gets into office, a year later they <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2002\/SHOWBIZ\/TV\/05\/14\/television.kimmel\/index.html\">cancel<\/a> the one show that would actually be brave enough to have critics of the regime say uncomfortable things on network television. Apparently, when Bill Maher could target a Clinton presidency, Disney had no problem letting him eviscerate those that deserve it. Maher is intelligent, cynical, and skeptical, all things that we need in a talking head.<br \/>\n<strike>I still have hope, since Dennis Miller is still on the air, but, of course, even he was dropped by Disney after the bizarre experiment with him and Monday Night Football. Will Time Warner, owner of HBO, decide that Miller is out of touch with the teeming masses that watch cable? Eventually, yes, but I am hopeful that it won&#8217;t be for another three years.<\/strike><br \/>\nMy advice to Bill Maher: Get an Internet soap box. It works well for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelmoore.com\">Michael Moore<\/a>. Currently, billmaher.com is hijacked by some Jesus-freaks, which is ironic, since Maher himself is pretty much an outspoken atheist. Do they believe that anyone who enjoys Maher&#8217;s biting wit will stumble here and hear the Word of God, repent, and deny this world? Good luck. And politicallyincorrect.com has been claimed by a naive domain-name prospector, hoping for some untold millions when Disney desperately begs for the name. Ooops! Sorry chowder-head! The show&#8217;s been cancelled, you&#8217;ve been wasting your time.<br \/>\nI offer my site to you, Bill. It isn&#8217;t much, but it occupies just as much Internet real estate as ABC, Disney, and TryJesus.com. When I finally reopen Lounge, it sure would be nice to have a star of your magnitude on the inside, no offense to <a href=\"http:\/\/lounge.macphoenix.com\/movies\/\">Thom<\/a>. I can&#8217;t pay you anything, but you can keep 50% of the profits from the CafePress T-shirts we&#8217;ll sell. And I promise never to censor you for saying things that need to be said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hate to be so paranoid. But when a Bushie gets into office, a year later they cancel the one show that would actually be brave enough to have critics of the regime say uncomfortable things on network television. Apparently, when Bill Maher could target a Clinton presidency, Disney had no problem letting him eviscerate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_import_markdown_pro_load_document_selector":0,"_import_markdown_pro_submit_text_textarea":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-subjects"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nj3d-q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}