{"id":14232,"date":"2012-02-04T16:19:23","date_gmt":"2012-02-04T16:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=14232"},"modified":"2012-02-04T16:19:23","modified_gmt":"2012-02-04T16:19:23","slug":"irritable-bowl-syndrome-bill-maher-superbowl-socialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2012\/02\/04\/irritable-bowl-syndrome-bill-maher-superbowl-socialism\/","title":{"rendered":"Superbowl Socialism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Irritable-Bowl-Syndrome-by-Bill-Maher.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14233\" title=\"Irritable Bowl Syndrome by Bill Maher\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Irritable-Bowl-Syndrome-by-Bill-Maher.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This short film narrated by Bill Maher points out some salient facts on the eve of the Superbowl.<\/p>\n<p>Using graphics blended against the audio version of a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cCBc53_BgTc\">monologue<\/a> from HBO&#8217;s Real Time, it points out a valuable economic lesson in just over 2 minutes.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/35003246?portrait=0&amp;color=bdbdbd\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Notice how the light hearted, comedic vibe is a highly effective tool at communicating serious facts and opinion.<\/p>\n<p>It is an irony that &#8216;liberal&#8217; Europe&#8217;s brand of football hugely favours the rich clubs, whilst &#8216;capitalist America&#8217; has a much more egalitarian sporting model.<\/p>\n<p>Wouldn&#8217;t it be great if this screened during the half-time spot alongside the Ferris Bueller Honda ad?<\/p>\n<p>Intriguingly, Maher&#8217;s words are a reverse of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Carlin\">George Carlin<\/a>&#8216;s famous routine about the differences between <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_football\">American football<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Baseball\">Baseball<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qmXacL0Uny0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"410\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure there are more points to be raised (e.g. revenue sharing), so feel free to leave them in the comments below.<\/p>\n<p>N.B. Do any sports writers reading this want to compare <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/FC_Barcelona\">Barcelona<\/a> (a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/FC_Barcelona#Finances_and_ownership\">club owned by the fans<\/a>) to the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Green_Bay_Packers\">Green Bay Packers<\/a> (the only <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Green_Bay_Packers#Public_company\">community-owned franchise<\/a> in American professional sport)? I think there&#8217;s an interesting article in there.<\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hbo.com\/real-time-with-bill-maher\/index.html\">Real Time with Bill Maher<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; Buy Maher&#8217;s book New Rules on <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/ztl4o1\">paperback<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/AFtrF4\">audiobook<\/a> from Amazon<br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Super_Bowl_XLVI\">More on Superbowl XLVI at Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This short film narrated by Bill Maher points out some salient facts on the eve of the Superbowl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[86,795],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14232"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}