{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Reminded how for the 1996 election, the ABC network version of hip libertarian rebel cynic Bill Maher\u2019s political humor variety...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/174715931448/", "html": "<p><a href=\"/post/174715685343/\" target=\"_blank\">Reminded</a> how for the 1996 election, the ABC network version of hip libertarian rebel cynic Bill Maher\u2019s political humor variety show \u201cPolitically Incorrect\u201d did a recurring skit called \u201cStrange Bedfellows\u201d, where Al Franken (for the Democrats) and Arianna Huffington (for the Republicans) would playfully trade barbs while sharing an oversize prop bed. Which was kind of riffing on the way that two of the parties\u2019 highest-profile strategists, the Dems\u2019 James Carville and the GOP\u2019s Mary Matalin, were married to each other</p>"}