{"id":59113,"date":"2024-01-30T22:50:33","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T03:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=59113"},"modified":"2024-02-02T10:56:10","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T15:56:10","slug":"nikki-haley-does-patton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2024\/01\/nikki-haley-does-patton.html","title":{"rendered":"Nikki Haley Does &#8216;Patton&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>If ever there were a question that political posturing is show biz, Nikki Haley settled it at a rally in South Carolina.<em> She was doing an anemic imitation<\/em> of a mesmerizing George C. Scott in the opening scene of &#8220;Patton.&#8221;  Missing were the medals and martial music, thank god, which contributed mightily to Scott&#8217;s<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PS5yfhPGaWE&amp;t=53s\"> classic performance<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Haley-doing-Patton-bdr-750.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"643\" data-attachment-id=\"59112\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/haley-doing-patton-bdr-750\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Haley-doing-Patton-bdr-750.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"750,643\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Haley doing &amp;#8216;Patton&amp;#8217; bdr (750)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Haley-doing-Patton-bdr-750-300x257.jpeg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Haley-doing-Patton-bdr-750.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Haley-doing-Patton-bdr-750.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-59112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Haley-doing-Patton-bdr-750.jpeg 750w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Haley-doing-Patton-bdr-750-300x257.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Of course Trump has been doing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Trumps-imitation-of-Patton-750.jpg\">his stale imitation<\/a> for years.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If ever there were a question that political posturing is show biz, Nikki Haley settled it at a rally in South Carolina. She was doing an anemic imitation of a mesmerizing George C. Scott in the opening scene of &#8220;Patton.&#8221;  Missing were the medals and martial music, thank god, which contributed mightily to Scott&#8217;s classic performance. Of course Trump has been doing his stale imitation for years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":59112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,20,21,23,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-59113","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-main","8":"category-media","9":"category-movies","10":"category-news","11":"category-political-culture","12":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Haley-doing-Patton-bdr-750.jpeg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-fnr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59113"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59221,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59113\/revisions\/59221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}