{"id":32714,"date":"2021-04-19T13:42:27","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T18:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=32714"},"modified":"2021-04-19T13:42:27","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T18:42:27","slug":"anyone-remember","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/04\/19\/anyone-remember\/","title":{"rendered":"Anyone Remember?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Benen&#8217;s rant concerning the acceptance of a huge donation by disgraced for RNC member Steve Wynn by a Republican House group headed by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) cross-breeds into whimsy. First, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\/why-house-gop-taking-steve-wynn-s-money-so-tough-n1264476\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the end of the rant<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And yet, here we are, watching Kevin McCarthy praise and thank Steve Wynn &#8212; even vowing to work with him again in the near future &#8212; as if the sexual misconduct allegations are simply less important than Republicans&#8217; quest for power.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Quest for Power<\/em>. <strong>Yeah<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Who here remembers the movie <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quest_for_Fire_(film)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Quest For Fire<\/strong><\/em><\/a> (1981)? I think someone could do a screamingly funny parody of that film as a simple one minute video, with <strong><em>Quest For Power<\/em><\/strong> as the title.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, one of my co-workers at the time (<strong><em>F. W. Woolworth&#8217;s<\/em><\/strong>, for those who were wondering) reported she heard a wee little voice ask, <em>What are they doing, Mom?<\/em> at a rather inopportune moment during that movie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Benen&#8217;s rant concerning the acceptance of a huge donation by disgraced for RNC member Steve Wynn by a Republican House group headed by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) cross-breeds into whimsy. First, the end of the rant: And yet, here we are, watching Kevin McCarthy praise and thank \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/04\/19\/anyone-remember\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32715,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32714\/revisions\/32715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}