The chair of the congressional Jan. 6 committee said Thursday the committee will hold primetime hearings in June. Here’s what we know so far:
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What’s an authorial voice? Authoritative perhaps.
They need to keep it real simple, that’s for sure.
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“We don’t want it to read like a clunky committee effort,” Raskin told CNN. “We want it to have an authorial voice that tells the story of what happened.”
Have Ken Burns produce it.
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Authorial means they want it to tell a story, with a narrative, not be a disjointed set of testimonies that mixes everything up. It’s critical they tell it like a story, both to make it more clear to people what happened and to show all the moving parts and how they fit together, and how that marched towards 1/6.
This is critical for the midterm, the American people should have a clear picture of what happened and who is responsible. That will give us a stark choice in the election…I would hope Americans choose wisely and punish Republicans for trying to overthrow the government, but it will be good to know if that’s really what the people think.
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Something like a unified voice. Rather than its feeling like a crazy quilt of voices and stories, it’ll have the feel of having been constructed by one person.
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It saddens me that with the recent passing of our beloved Gilbert Gottfried we will not have him to do the voice-over for Jared Kushner.
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I don’t know if Gilbert could have sounded sufficiently flaccid and callow to pass for Kushner.
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They mean that they want to tell a linear story, rather than presenting something like a dry, but factual recitation of what happened. TLDR: the opposite of the Mueller Report.
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Raskin has some experience in constructing narratives of Trump’s malodorous malfeasance.
I am sure the hearings will be very well produced and gripping.
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Jared talks?
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The committee is not bipartisan.
“There are two Republicans on the committee.”
You can’t be on the committee if you are a Republican in good standing.
“Then how would it ever be possible to for the committee to be bipartisan?”
The committee is not bipartisan.
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Just tune in to Faux Snooze if you don’t want to watch the hearings.
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When they wind him up. He walks, too.
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It’s bipartisan. It just doesn’t include the Raving Loony Party whose members split from the republican establishment. 
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Authorial voice for blue states: Morgan Freeman
Authorial voice for red states: Sam Elliott
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It could have included them except for McCarthy’s long-range strategic decision.
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Keep the Jim Jordan-esque people away from the Main Action…
Even Rodeos have clowns
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Eight part mini-series, huh? OK.
I’m down for that.
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I hope that they keep in mind the short attention span of the average American citizen.
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Sometimes we hit the Mark using series to bring out a perspective long overlooked.
And believe me…this particular perspective deserves to be exposed to.
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