{"id":3375,"date":"2023-01-04T05:58:26","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T11:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=3375"},"modified":"2023-03-15T03:33:45","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T08:33:45","slug":"ryan-zinke-returns-to-congress-promptly-misattributes-quote-to-his-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=3375","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Ryan Zinke Returns To Congress, Promptly Misattributes Quote To His Hero<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furthering his streak of\u00a0dramatic entrances,\u00a0Ryan Zinke, the scandal-plagued former Trump administration official, marked his return to Congress on Tuesday by misattributing a quote to his hero Theodore Roosevelt.<br \/>\nZinke has long fancied himself a conservative in the mold of Roosevelt. He has called himself a \u201cRoosevelt guy\u201d and an \u201cunapologetic admirer\u201d of the 26th president, and continues to cling to his Roosevelt-style brand despite\u00a0blowback\u00a0from the Roosevelt family.<br \/>\nDuring a closed-door GOP meeting Tuesday morning, even before he and others were sworn in as members of the 118th Congress, Zinke recited a quote from his hero \u2014 or so he thought \u2014 while voicing support for Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to be the next speaker of the House.<br \/>\n\u201cI\u2019ll use the words of Teddy Roosevelt. \u2018You\u2019re either with us or against us,\u2019\u201d Zinke said,\u00a0according to Politico. \u201cThe stakes are too high. I\u2019m with you, Kevin.\u201d<br \/>\nCNN\u00a0reporter Edward-Isaac Dovere was first to point out Zinke\u2019s flub. HuffPost could find no example of Roosevelt uttering such words. The phrase is a common one and hard to trace back to any one person; however, George W. Bush\u00a0famously said\u00a0those words during an anti-terrorism speech shortly after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.<br \/>\nZinke\u2019s campaign did not respond to HuffPost\u2019s request seeking clarification.<br \/>\nRep. Ryan Zinke in the House Republicans meeting about being speaker, in favor of McCarthy: &#8220;I&#8217;ll use the words of Teddy Roosevelt: &#8216;You&#8217;re either with us or against us.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/ryan-zinke-roosevelt-quote_n_63b4575de4b0fe267cab4d18\">Huffpos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furthering his streak of\u00a0dramatic entrances,\u00a0Ryan Zinke, the scandal-plagued former Trump administration official, marked his return to Congress on Tuesday by misattributing a quote to his hero Theodore Roosevelt. Zinke has long fancied himself a conservative in the mold of Roosevelt. He has called himself a \u201cRoosevelt guy\u201d and an \u201cunapologetic admirer\u201d of the 26th president, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3335,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3475,1285,1380,3473,3474,1379],"class_list":["post-3375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-george-w-bush","tag-his","tag-roosevelt","tag-ryan-zinke","tag-theodore-roosevelt","tag-zinke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3375"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7624,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375\/revisions\/7624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}