My earlier suggestion of pause for 1 minute and play at 1.25x for 5 minutes would allow commentary without missing anything but might be disruptive. How about carefully muting during the unanimous consent requests and putting up a graphic saying either "R request to enter material into the record supporting the nominee" or "D request to …
My earlier suggestion of pause for 1 minute and play at 1.25x for 5 minutes would allow commentary without missing anything but might be disruptive. How about carefully muting during the unanimous consent requests and putting up a graphic saying either "R request to enter material into the record supporting the nominee" or "D request to enter material into the record damaging to the nominee". Then maybe post a summary of those at the end, or not; by definition we can all look them up when the record is published.
Unfortunately it’s impossible to predict those things and they’re generally too short for someone to meaningfully extemporize some commentary.
…Well, usually impossible to predict. Wicker’s tactic of entering something into the record following every Democrat’s questioning was a bit bizarre (and came off to someone who watches an unhealthy number of hearings as defensive).
I think the pause-and-resume-with-speedup idea is definitely worth trying — I’ve never seen it done before, but I just tried re-watching a bit of the hearing at 1.25 speed and it doesn’t seem to hurt. Figuring out what a protestor is screaming or getting the timing of jokes is likely to suffer, but those are pretty ancillary.
My earlier suggestion of pause for 1 minute and play at 1.25x for 5 minutes would allow commentary without missing anything but might be disruptive. How about carefully muting during the unanimous consent requests and putting up a graphic saying either "R request to enter material into the record supporting the nominee" or "D request to enter material into the record damaging to the nominee". Then maybe post a summary of those at the end, or not; by definition we can all look them up when the record is published.
Unfortunately it’s impossible to predict those things and they’re generally too short for someone to meaningfully extemporize some commentary.
…Well, usually impossible to predict. Wicker’s tactic of entering something into the record following every Democrat’s questioning was a bit bizarre (and came off to someone who watches an unhealthy number of hearings as defensive).
I think the pause-and-resume-with-speedup idea is definitely worth trying — I’ve never seen it done before, but I just tried re-watching a bit of the hearing at 1.25 speed and it doesn’t seem to hurt. Figuring out what a protestor is screaming or getting the timing of jokes is likely to suffer, but those are pretty ancillary.