2023-05-02 20:35:23
A funny appearance for a meeting of elected officials. A US senator was mocked by millions of Internet users on Monday, after the broadcast of an extract from a vote by Zoom, during which he accidentally appeared shirtless in front of the camera.
While participating in a remote vote, Republican Senator Calvin Bahr, who sits in the Minnesota Senate, accidentally turned on his camera while voting “yes”… Which made him appear on the screen shirtless, lying down in his bed, with an image from the cartoon “Schoolhouse Rock!” ” background. A very absurd image for a remote vote, which the senator hastened to cut after a second.
The senator’s colleagues, physically present in a meeting room and also visible on the screen, could not help but smile after the incident, without interrupting the discussion around the choice of subjects to be examined by his legislative committee.
Recurring mishandling
The video extract you vote, taken up by an American journalist, has been viewed 4 million times on Twitter, prompting numerous mocking comments from Internet users. contacted by the local press after the unfortunate manipulation, Senator Calvin Bahr declined to comment on the matter.
This is not the first time that elected officials or personalities have been victims of bad manipulation in remote meetings, recalls the BBC. In 2021, Tom Emmer, a Republican member of the United States Congress, appeared with his head floating upside down during a speech on the health crisis linked to Covid-19.
Before that, a Texas lawyer had also attracted millions of views after the broadcast of an extract where his face was transformed in that of a kitten…in the middle of a local court hearing.
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