{"id":9028,"date":"2013-02-05T16:08:06","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T20:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=9028"},"modified":"2013-02-05T16:09:36","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T20:09:36","slug":"trump-maher-lawsuit-ape-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2013\/02\/05\/trump-maher-lawsuit-ape-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Trumped Up Lawsuit (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You don&#8217;t have to be a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/legalhumor.html\">recovering lawyer<\/a>&#8221; like me to know that <a href=\"http:\/\/popwatch.ew.com\/2013\/02\/04\/donald-trump-sues-bill-maher\/\">such a lawsuit<\/a> would be frivolous:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>During a guest appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno last month, Maher quipped that Trump must be \u201cthe spawn of his mother having sex with an orangutan\u201d (Exhibit A: his orange hair). In a riff off of Trump\u2019s own offer to give $5 million to the charity of Barack Obama\u2019s choice if the President released his college paperwork, Maher said he would do the same for Trump if the real estate mogul supplied proof that he is not descended from an ape.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Trump, who apparently was able to prove he wasn&#8217;t fathered by an orangutan, has announced on <em>Fox &#038; Friends<\/em> that he&#8217;s suing for the $5 million.<\/p>\n<p>Trumped Up Lawsuit (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>A man who I&#8217;d rather not mention<br \/>\nIs relentlessly seeking attention:<br \/>\nWith his Birther schtick stale,<br \/>\nHe is desp&#8217;rate to nail<br \/>\nLots of cov&#8217;rage through lawsuit dissension.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You don&#8217;t have to be a &#8220;recovering lawyer&#8221; like me to know that such a lawsuit would be frivolous: During a guest appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno last month, Maher quipped that Trump must be \u201cthe spawn of his mother having sex with an orangutan\u201d (Exhibit A: his orange hair). In a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1358,1550,585,168,26,6,1551],"tags":[2275,2274,2897,278,1084,1296,1255,373,1254,275,2276,964,574],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9028"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9028"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9045,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9028\/revisions\/9045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}