Reps. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) and Adam Schiff (D-CA), both of whom serve on the Jan. 6 committee, on Sunday detailed expectations ahead of the panel’s upcoming public hearings.
I’m looking forward to this. I hope at least one of my local radio and broadcast teevie stations cover these hearings.
Potential helluva start to the New Year…
A flopsweat alert has just been posted for Palm Beach, Florida.
Don’tprogram it opposite the Olympics. Don’t wait for the Broadway play, either. On the other hand, a Broadway play would be pretty nontraditional.
“Thompson, who chairs the committee, said that the panel is looking to speak to state and local election officials to determine whether the elections were fraudulent.”
I’m no elections expert, but I just might be able to save the committee a lot of time on that question…
Post Deleted
Asked about his remarks to CNN last month about the committee having “non-traditional” types of public hearings, Thompson, who chairs the committee, said
What I would like to hear him say, is: “We’re gonna do away with the bullshit legacy hearing format, where each critter gets five minutes of Q&A with the witness, and the witness can filibuster away that whole 5 minutes without addressing a single question. Instead, we’re gonna allocate 2 minutes to each critter to ask questions, and the witness has unlimited time to answer, subject to the chairperson’s whim. Witness filibustering will be treated as contempt of congress.”
Actually, do program it opposite the olympics. There will be more action and drama in the hearings: ever since the 1996 Atlanta “up close and personal” olympics the coverage has 90% consisted of treacly athlete backgrounders that serve only to decorate the resume of the TV journamalist. You want sport, you don’t turn on US olympic coverage.
And a mic mute button, too.
Please proceed with due haste, Chairman Thompson.
Rick Wilson was right. They’re planning on announcing they have all the testimony they need and thus no need to enforce subpoenas. We’ve been had…
Exactly. It’s horrible.
“Our legacy piece and final product will be the select committee’s report.” So jackshit…
Perfect opportunity for this
Code Orville. I repeat, Code ORVILLE. Scramble all available popcorn memes.
Precisely. Trump and his whole brood of enablers and conspirators are all traitors.
My obvious answer to this is that they want to air the Trump and RNC dirty laundry on the TV, so as to show the American people that running elections is something that we’ve been doing for a long, long time. And the American people will see that the wonks have this election thingy process down pat. I hope some of the election officials pull a Hillary and bring their binders that dictate the process.
Oh and I hope that at least one wonk points out the some processes like how to access to the ballot box were adjusted because WE WERE, AND STILL ARE, IN A FUCKING GLOBAL PANDEMIC. This may not be obvious to Republican rioteers that they were trying to save lives with these changes.
So this guy is wearing gloves because he doesn’t want his fingerprints all over the election stealing?
I mean looking at the other folks around him it’s not that cold, so…?
I’d like to see a “non-traditional” public hearing where there is a split-screen …
Jan. 6 Committee hearing on one side.
A reading of just-released indictments on the other.
It will be interesting to see if this gets the same interest as C-Span, or if the committee can garner enough press and public attention that Bennie Thompson becomes Sam Ervin. I’m hoping for the latter, but I have to say that society has changed a lot, and I’m not sure “televised hearings” can dent the zeitgeist as easily as in the 1970’s.
you mean for the new record of 289,000 cases of covid?
