Bill Maher Reads Some Steamy Soft-Core Conservative Porn

This week Rupert Murdoch acquired Harlequin, the publishing outfit known for those incredibly steamy softcore porn, housewife-fetish books. Well, now that Murdoch owns it, Bill Maher suspected the books might take a rightward turn, and read an excerpt of what sounded a lot like some conservative fetish porn.

Maher read the mock book as a Fox News wet dream, with everything from the title to the asides filled with conservative clichés. One line describes “a passion that burned like an underprotected embassy in Libya,” while the male character is a “widower whose wife had died in the War on Christmas.”

And the pillow talk was just as cheesy, with lines like “drill, baby, drill!” and “Shh, don’t speak. Until you learn to speak English.”

Watch the video below, via HBO:

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