Duane wrote about Corey Booker’s marathon filibuster of no particular thing yesterday, and he had a blast doing it.
Actually, you shouldn’t call his speechifying a “marathon” because even not-so-great marathoners generally finish in under 8 hours, and Booker spent three times as long on the Senate floor talking and talking and TALKING.
The spectacle was so riveting that it was carried live on cable…admittedly, it was CSPAN, which always carries House and Senate floor sessions…but at least it went out to a bunch of homes in America. Reruns of Norman Lear’s long-forgotten 1970s sitcom “McGurk: A Dog’s Life” might have gotten better ratings, but I am reliably informed that some poor schmuck had to watch the whole thing to harvest clips for X and various news stations.
Frank Luntz, at least, was totally impressed and apparently found some “ordinary…
