November 16th, 2019. Igor Koval, Please Stand Up For Adam Schiff
https://www.westernjournal.com/thing-better-look-schiffs-face-stefanik-reading-c...Only Thing Better Than Look on Schiff's Face Is Stefanik Reading His Comments Back to Him
By C. Douglas Golden
Published November 16, 2019 at 10:38am
Some of America, it seems, has caught on to the inconsequential nature of profoundly hyped hearings which will definitely end or damage the Trump presidency.
According to Reuters, when fired FBI Director James Comey testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee in July 2017, 19.5 million Americans tuned in. During the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation last year, roughly 20 million Americans watched the contentious hearings unfold.
Neither of those had the same kind of 24-karat headline as impeachment proceedings — and yet, television viewers couldn’t care less. Reuters reported that 13.8 million people tuned in Wednesday for the opening salvo in the Democrats’ public hearings on removing Donald Trump from office.
I’m no collective clairvoyant, but my guess is that most people know there’s no chance Trump will be removed from office, there’s going to be nothing in the testimony that we haven’t heard before and the rules are rigged so that there will be a predetermined outcome.
If you’re a political junkie and decided to miss it, however, you should probably be kicking yourself — at least if you’re a conservative.
Not only did the Republicans generally carry the day, there was also Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan dissecting witness William Taylor so thoroughly you wanted one of the networks to overlay the “Simpsons” GIF on the testimony: “Stop, stop! He’s already dead!”
And if Jordan’s dissection of witnesses wasn’t reason enough to watch, Rep. Elise Stefanik’s take on House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff also deserved some kind of prize.
Stefanik — a New York Republican who was once known as the youngest woman elected to Congress until a significantly less talented New York Democrat took that mantle — “was one of the sharpest questioners of the three diplomats who testified at public hearings on Wednesday and Friday, overshadowing some colleagues better known for their vociferous defense of the president,” according to Reuters.
Reuters wasn’t joking. If you ever want to see Schiff look profoundly uncomfortable — and really, who doesn’t? — you had the perfect chance during Friday’s hearing: