{"id":32837,"date":"2021-04-30T17:33:43","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T22:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=32837"},"modified":"2021-04-30T17:33:43","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T22:33:43","slug":"to-be-a-journalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/04\/30\/to-be-a-journalist\/","title":{"rendered":"To Be A Journalist"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steve Benen notes that Montana, in the wake of the Census results, is picking up a second seat in the House of Representatives – and former Secretary of the Interior Ryan ZInke (R-MT) is already gearing up for a run. Benen summarizes<\/a> Zinke’s tour under former President Trump:<\/p>\n

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Arguably no cabinet secretary from the Trump era was more controversial than the Republican secretary of the Interior.\u00a0Roll Call<\/em>‘s\u00a0report<\/a>\u00a0noted that Zinke “came under at least 15 different investigations” before resigning, and that is not an exaggeration.<\/p>\n

In Dec. 2018, the\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0published\u00a0a round-up<\/a>\u00a0of pending investigations into the Montana Republican, and it was a strikingly long list. Media Matters also put together\u00a0a timeline<\/a>\u00a0of “the Interior secretary’s questionable actions and controversies,” and that list was even longer.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And, if he does, I’ll really wish I was a journalist, if only to ask a series of snarky questions, such as:<\/p>\n

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  1. How many scandals does the typical Representative become involved in, sir? Do you think you can double or triple that number, sir?<\/li>\n
  2. Do you believe that you can do better than former Representative Weiner<\/a> (D-NY)? He had quite the number, you know.<\/li>\n
  3. Or will you be competing in terms of exotic?<\/li>\n
  4. Is your motivation money or prestige, sir?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Because we know that neither shame nor notoriety will stop a member of the current crop of Republicans from running.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Steve Benen notes that Montana, in the wake of the Census results, is picking up a second seat in the House of Representatives – and former Secretary of the Interior Ryan ZInke (R-MT) is already gearing up for a run. Benen summarizes Zinke’s tour under former President Trump: Arguably no \u2026 Continue reading → <\/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-32837","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\/32837","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=32837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32838,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32837\/revisions\/32838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}