My suggestion for getting commentary without muting and missing some good lines would be a live Bulwarker text chat (a feed of an internal Bulwark Slack channel would work) displayed beside the C-SPAN feed, with live discussion during any breaks¹ and after the hearing.
Also the idea brought up elsewhere in this thread by Bob Kanefsky of c…
My suggestion for getting commentary without muting and missing some good lines would be a live Bulwarker text chat (a feed of an internal Bulwark Slack channel would work) displayed beside the C-SPAN feed, with live discussion during any breaks¹ and after the hearing.
Also the idea brought up elsewhere in this thread by Bob Kanefsky of commentary breaks pausing the feed and then resuming at 1.25✗ speed is a novel one that seems worth trying. Viewers wouldn’t miss anything from either The Bulwark or the hearings, and you would know by the feed switching back to live before interrupting that you were budgeting your commentary time well. But I could see this being unwieldy.
But putting the muting aside, Will, Sam and Andrew were all great — well done to your reporters! Sarah didn’t get enough time (though it seems like perhaps the stream was started elsewhere before getting switched to the right YouTube post? It just went live in the middle of a comment from Sarah).
Tim’s wincing at the end was perfectly relatable — and props on his final rant!
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¹ But, if the Senate GOP wouldn’t give even the *SecDef* two rounds of questions, who *will* they have a long hearing for?!? During the hearing, both Armed Services Committee ranking member Sen. Jack Reed and Sen. Mark Kelly seemed to imply that the single round was something of a surprise to Democrats, with Wicker responding that it conformed to the “precedent” of prior SecDef testimony — true as far as it goes, but Lloyd Austin’s hearing was quick because he was so recently out of his CENTCOM post that almost all the senators on Armed Services knew him well.
My suggestion for getting commentary without muting and missing some good lines would be a live Bulwarker text chat (a feed of an internal Bulwark Slack channel would work) displayed beside the C-SPAN feed, with live discussion during any breaks¹ and after the hearing.
Also the idea brought up elsewhere in this thread by Bob Kanefsky of commentary breaks pausing the feed and then resuming at 1.25✗ speed is a novel one that seems worth trying. Viewers wouldn’t miss anything from either The Bulwark or the hearings, and you would know by the feed switching back to live before interrupting that you were budgeting your commentary time well. But I could see this being unwieldy.
But putting the muting aside, Will, Sam and Andrew were all great — well done to your reporters! Sarah didn’t get enough time (though it seems like perhaps the stream was started elsewhere before getting switched to the right YouTube post? It just went live in the middle of a comment from Sarah).
Tim’s wincing at the end was perfectly relatable — and props on his final rant!
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¹ But, if the Senate GOP wouldn’t give even the *SecDef* two rounds of questions, who *will* they have a long hearing for?!? During the hearing, both Armed Services Committee ranking member Sen. Jack Reed and Sen. Mark Kelly seemed to imply that the single round was something of a surprise to Democrats, with Wicker responding that it conformed to the “precedent” of prior SecDef testimony — true as far as it goes, but Lloyd Austin’s hearing was quick because he was so recently out of his CENTCOM post that almost all the senators on Armed Services knew him well.