Intern Georgia Williams here filling in for Betsy while she gets some time off. Most of the news today is about the epically long Comey grill session that happened for most of the day at the House Oversight Committee. Here we go…
Byron Tau from Wall Street Journal does the math:
There’s a lot of members on this committee.
— Byron Tau (@ByronTau) July 7, 2016
Dana Milbank with the Washington Post goes people watching:
Quiz: name these power players who have positioned themselves to be in all the Comey footage this morning. pic.twitter.com/si6fFKxnZU
— Dana Milbank (@Milbank) July 7, 2016
Eddie Scarry with the Examiner has a deep thought early in the morning:
Congress is so annoying.
— Eddie Scarry (@eScarry) July 7, 2016
Julie Mason is just worried for Comey’s bladder:
LET COMEY GO (to the men’s room)
— Julie Mason (@juliemason) July 7, 2016
And so is fellow Caller intern Page Marshall:
When was the last time Comey got a bathroom break?? #ComeyHearing
— page.marshall (@pfmarshall) July 7, 2016
HuffPo‘s Sam Stein takes a lunch break, wishes he had DVR:
haven’t been watching hearing for past hour. what did i miss?
— Sam Stein (@samsteinhp) July 7, 2016
David Mastio has a seizure? U ok David?
Grrrrr Journalism 101: Never, ever, ever, ever use Wikipedia as a source. #NEVERWikipedia#bashmyheadonmydesk#andthen#jumpoffabridge
— David Mastio (@DavidMastio) July 7, 2016
A cup of coffee losing faith:
2016 is the year we got URLs like this:
/2016/jul/06/donald-trump-antisemitic-clinton-tweet-saddam-hussein-praise
— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) July 7, 2016
Matt Yglesias of Vox lernt Deutsch:
Duolingo setting a low bar here pic.twitter.com/0wL2C4YRjH
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) July 7, 2016
Luke Russert, upon seeing Trump entering the House all shady in a back door, has an idea for a certain Netflix series:
House of Cards season 5 opening scene