{"id":1482,"date":"2009-02-07T12:21:56","date_gmt":"2009-02-07T20:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=1482"},"modified":"2009-02-07T12:21:56","modified_gmt":"2009-02-07T20:21:56","slug":"preachers-lawsuit-religulous-made-me-look-silly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/preachers-lawsuit-religulous-made-me-look-silly\/","title":{"rendered":"Preacher&#8217;s lawsuit: &#8220;Religulous&#8221; made me look silly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rev. Jeremiah Cummings of Orlando <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onpointnews.com\/NEWS\/Preacher-Alleges-Religulous-Made-Him-Ridiculous.html\">wants $50 million from Lionsgate<\/a> for his unflattering portrayal on screen, saying Bill Maher and his filmmaking team did not level with him about the kind of movie they were making. However, as Matthew Heller notes, similar remorse suits over Sacha Baron Cohen&#8217;s &#8220;Borat&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/overlawyered.com\/tag\/borat\/\">mostly flopped<\/a>, with eight of nine thrown out before the discovery stage (cross-posted from Overlawyered). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rev. Jeremiah Cummings of Orlando wants $50 million from Lionsgate for his unflattering portrayal on screen, saying Bill Maher and his filmmaking team did not level with him about the kind of movie they were making. However, as Matthew Heller &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/preachers-lawsuit-religulous-made-me-look-silly\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[108],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1483,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482\/revisions\/1483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}