{"id":36109,"date":"2022-06-01T14:04:12","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T19:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=36109"},"modified":"2022-06-01T14:04:12","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T19:04:12","slug":"how-often-does-this-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/06\/01\/how-often-does-this-work\/","title":{"rendered":"How Often Does This Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a class of political attacks that consists of <em>embarrassing the targets<\/em>. Here&#8217;s a very recent example:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We spoke directly to Wayne LaPierre at the NRA Convention and thanked him for all his thoughts and prayers. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EfdDrgD4Af\">pic.twitter.com\/EfdDrgD4Af<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Good Liars (@TheGoodLiars) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheGoodLiars\/status\/1531019935308304386?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 29, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>WaPo<\/strong><\/em> provides a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheGoodLiars\/status\/1531019935308304386?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1531019935308304386%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fnation%2F2022%2F05%2F31%2Fnra-lapierre-thoughts-prayers%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">summary<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cYou heard [the criticism] after Las Vegas, you heard it after Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, you heard it after Columbine, you heard it after Parkland, you heard it after Virginia Tech, you heard it after Sandy Hook, you heard it after El Paso, you heard it after Buffalo. You kept hearing that Wayne LaPierre isn\u2019t doing enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But that\u2019s not true, [Jason Selvig] said. The NRA, under LaPierre\u2019s leadership, had given victims\u2019 family members thoughts and prayers, \u201cand maybe these mass shootings would stop happening if we all thought a little bit more and we prayed a little bit more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then he addressed a confused-looking LaPierre.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to thank you \u2026 for all your thoughts and all your prayers \u2014 thank you.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s the sarcastic attack.<\/p>\n<p>But do these things ever work? Maybe they&#8217;re targeted, much like debates, on the audience and not the apparent target.<\/p>\n<p>But it almost seems like art in a very macabre context.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a class of political attacks that consists of embarrassing the targets. Here&#8217;s a very recent example: We spoke directly to Wayne LaPierre at the NRA Convention and thanked him for all his thoughts and prayers. pic.twitter.com\/EfdDrgD4Af &mdash; The Good Liars (@TheGoodLiars) May 29, 2022 WaPo provides a summary: \u201cYou \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/06\/01\/how-often-does-this-work\/\"> 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-36109","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\/36109","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=36109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36110,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36109\/revisions\/36110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}