Pump Up The Volume, Petraeus
Countless bloggers tuned to C-SPAN, with itchy fingers poised on keyboards, as the top American commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, testified on Capitol Hill on Monday. But at least one, Kathryn Jean Lopez at National Review's "The Corner," was irked with what appeared to be some technical difficulties at the onset.
She wrote: "So you think technology is bad in Iraq? The U.S. House of Representatives can't get the commanding general a working mic in Washington, D.C. Ike Skelton seems to be offering to read his statement for him.... he should have stayed in Baghdad. Completely embarrassing."
The Wall Street Journal's Susan Davis also reported on the glitch: "House Armed Services Chairman Ike Skelton, D-Mo., grew increasingly irritated as staff scrambled to fix Petraeus’s microphone, which remained stubbornly silent, and to get copies of his prepared testimony to committee members."
The Politico and Mother Jones offered additional commentary (here and here) on the microphone crisis.
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