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Lucylastic -> RE: On nutsuckers and free speech (2/8/2017 5:51:59 AM)
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Apparently, according to the GOP leader, reading the letter from Martin Luther King’s widow was, in effect, too mean. McConnell pointed to Rule XIX, which says senators cannot “directly or indirectly, by any form of words impute to another senator or to other senators any conduct or motive unworthy or unbecoming a senator.”
In other words, Coretta Scott King’s concerns about Sessions’ record 30 years ago might hurt Sessions’ feelings, so, in the interest of maintaining decorum in the chamber, Republicans felt compelled to shut Warren down. Of all the things McConnell could’ve chosen to pounce on, he chose concerns about Sessions, race, and civil rights from MLK’s widow.
Of course, the Streisand Effect immediately kicked in, and by silencing the Democratic senator, Republicans inadvertently raised her profile and brought more attention to the remarks she intended to make.
Indeed, Warren ultimately read the King letter anyway, not from the Senate floor, but from a Senate hallway where it was streamed online – for an audience of nearly 50,000 people.
Thats what you call a backfire
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