{"id":18736,"date":"2026-02-07T18:21:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T18:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/maher-blasts-white-house-over-rather-lame-defense-of-obama-video-f-ing-hypocrites\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T18:21:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T18:21:11","slug":"maher-blasts-white-house-over-rather-lame-defense-of-obama-video-f-ing-hypocrites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/maher-blasts-white-house-over-rather-lame-defense-of-obama-video-f-ing-hypocrites\/","title":{"rendered":"Maher blasts White House over &#8216;rather lame&#8217; defense of Obama video: &#8216;F&#8212;ing hypocrites&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Comedian Bill Maher on Friday called the White House &#8220;f&#8212;ing hypocrites&#8221; over what he called a &#8220;rather lame&#8221; defense of a since-deleted video depicting former President Obama and former Michelle Obama as apes. The host, on a recent episode of &#8220;Real Time,&#8221; referred to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt&#8217;s initial defense of the video&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/media\/5727715-maher-white-house-trump-obama-video\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comedian Bill Maher on Friday called the White House &#8220;f&#8212;ing hypocrites&#8221; over what he called a &#8220;rather lame&#8221; defense of a since-deleted video depicting former President Obama and former Michelle Obama as apes. The host, on a recent episode of &#8220;Real Time,&#8221; referred to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt&#8217;s initial defense of the video&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}