{"id":463,"date":"2005-01-17T13:23:07","date_gmt":"2005-01-17T20:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/?p=463"},"modified":"2008-04-18T13:25:29","modified_gmt":"2008-04-18T20:25:29","slug":"ali-g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2005\/01\/17\/ali-g\/","title":{"rendered":"Ali G!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Luther King&#8217;s less-well-known speech,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.afscme.org\/about\/kingspch.htm\" target=\"_blank\"> I&#8217;ve                   Been to the Mountaintop<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Was that Ali G causing a near rodeo in Virginia?                 Representatives from the show could not confirm that.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-462\" title=\"alig\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/alig.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"115\" height=\"268\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>It                         was only later &#8211; after the man riled up the audience                         with comments like &#8220;may George W. Bush drink the                         blood of every man, woman and child in Iraq&#8221; &#8211; that                         Rowe figured out he had been duped. The performer also                         told everyone to be seated before launching into a butchered                         version of &#8220;The Star-Spangled Banner&#8221; that                         ended with the words: &#8220;your home in the grave.&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\nBobby Rowe, rodeo producer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roanoke.com\/news\/roanoke%5C16709.html\" target=\"_blank\">about                       a possible Ali G performance <\/a>at his rodeo<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Perhaps the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=Ali%2BG\" target=\"_blank\">Urban                   Dictionary<\/a> can figure this one out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2005\/01\/17\/ali-g\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Luther King&#8217;s less-well-known speech, I&#8217;ve Been to the Mountaintop. Was that Ali G causing a near rodeo in Virginia? Representatives from the show could not confirm that. It was only later &#8211; after the man riled up the audience with comments like &#8220;may George W. Bush drink the blood of every man, woman and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2005\/01\/17\/ali-g\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ali G!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2005\/01\/17\/ali-g\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}