In a past life in the "90's when I was working for ABC News, I was asked on air what I thought about a particular attorney's performance in court. At that point in my career, I had never observed a worse trial attorney.[Castor's performance yesterday was far worse] I answered
2]"It totally sucked, way worse than putrid."; slang I had picked up from my young son. The censors used the 4 second delay to wipe out the first three words of that soundbite so it came out "way worse than putrid" which triggered some good nature kidding from my UCLA Law
3]colleagues for my poor grammar. Apart from declining standards in what TV views as acceptable language, I doubt any censor would dare edit Larry Tribe's language as the most prominent constitutional scholar doing media work in the country. I loved hearing him say it because
4]it was the perfect description of Castor's performance. I admit to muting the TV after listening to his opening remarks because it was too painful to watch such a train wreck.
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