Senator yells 'f---, f---, f---' on live television during DeJoy testimony thinking he was muted

[Demovictory9]

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Senator yells 'f---, f---, f---' on live television during DeJoy testimony as Congress still learns how to use videoconferencing tech

Sen. Tom Carper seemingly thought he was on mute during Friday's virtual Senate hearing for the testimony of US Postmaster General Louis DeJoy.
A visibly frustrated Carper could be heard saying "f---, f---, f---" on live television after struggling with his livestream for the hearing, which was conducted with Cisco's videoconferencing software Webex.

https://www.businessinsider.com/usps-hearing-congress-senator-carper-curses-dejoy-post-office-webex-2020-8

[bottomofthehill]

1. Carper showing a little emotion.

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Kind of nice to see

[Cha]

6. Fucking Liars about our USPS will do that to Patriots.

[mr_lebowski]

2. The sentiments of a great many of us (nt)

[DonaldsRump]

3. I'm sure that the Reputincans will scream holy hell

and call for months of investigations, tying Senator Carper to Joe Biden since they are both from Delaware as they are corrupting the youth of America.

[RandySF]

4. I've said that every day for the past three years.

[Niagara]

10. +1000

Me too.

[still_one]

5. I suspect he knows how to mute now. Whenever I am on a conference call, after I put it in mute

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I always confirm by asking, "can you hear me"

Whenever I reply on email, I always make sure I have not selected "reply all", unless I intended to do so

[gristy]

16. Smart!

I do that sometimes.

[irisblue]

7. Senator Three Fucks from Delaware

And now I have a reason to remember him

[Delmette2.0]

8. I'll second that

[CottonBear]

12. That's fucking hilarious!

I heard him say it live on the CSPAN broadcast this AM. It was fantastic!

[treestar]

13. We are going to get a reputation for cursing!

Biden's Big Fucking Deal and now this!

[Dagstead Bumwood]

20. That's gold, Jerry. Gold!

The wife and I have offices in two of our empty bedrooms, and even with my door closed and satellite radio on, I could hear her busting a gut over something. Then she burst in and told me "You gotta come see this! Trust me, it's worth it." And, it was.

[BumRushDaShow]

9. I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't HIS fault

but the fault of whoever was "controlling" the conference. I.e., with these types of conferences calls, the "host" will often put everyone on mute until a designated person is up for speaking and if that "host" doesn't switch over correctly (or to the correct person), the one waiting to speak can un-mute and re-mute and un-mute again ad infinitum with no ability to actually fix the problem until the "host" takes care of it from their end.

In this case, Johnson announced he was going to skip him and go to Lankford and then suddenly the feed appears and he starts cussing while his aide (or whoever that was) comes over to see what happened and didn't appear to signal anything was wrong (meaning apparently it had nothing to do with their end). The fact that he could "hear" when he was up next was a case in point.

[Olafjoy]

11. At least he gives a f#@k!!

[gristy]

14. I would think politicians would treat each and every microphone in front of them as being on

Not unlike how you're supposed to treat every gun as loaded.

[Grammy23]

15. I heard that this morning but did not realize WHAT he was saying.

It was apparent there was a glitch of some sort. Very funny now that I know what he said.


Tell us how you really feel, Senator.

[JDC]

17. The joys of audio/web collaboration

I sometimes think video calls and meetings will be shunned in the future due to their Covid association - rather than the new way to communicate for biz.

[abqtommy]

18. So what? That's language I use every day, mentally and verbally. Don't bother me none.*

* to David Spade in Joe Dirt

[SharonClark]

19. I said it at least 3 times in front of my 89 year old mother the other day.

We were talking about trump.
She didn't even flinch.