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01-17-2018, 10:22 AM
Senator reaches for nonexistent glasses and takes them off anyway
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Today's collective LOL at the expense of lawmakers came courtesy of Senator Orrin Hatch, who just reached for his glasses and, upon finding there were none there, decided to take them off anyway.
SEE ALSO: This state senator wants to revive net neutrality in California (http://mashable.com/2017/12/14/california-state-senator-scott-wiener-plans-net-neutrality-laws/)
The 83-year-old was deep in the middle of the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing for Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen when he made the gaffe. Of course Twitter pounced like a rabid fox on the nonsensical gesture.
Here it is in all its glory.
And here's perhaps the best of the inevitable jokes that followed.
.@OrrinHatch (https://twitter.com/OrrinHatch?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) we got you, dude pic.twitter.com/ymMhRuiiOS (https://t.co/ymMhRuiiOS)
— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) January 16, 2018 (https://twitter.com/TheDailyShow/status/953327124345163777?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) Read more... (http://mashable.com/2018/01/16/orrin-hatch-imaginary-glasses/)
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Today's collective LOL at the expense of lawmakers came courtesy of Senator Orrin Hatch, who just reached for his glasses and, upon finding there were none there, decided to take them off anyway.
SEE ALSO: This state senator wants to revive net neutrality in California (http://mashable.com/2017/12/14/california-state-senator-scott-wiener-plans-net-neutrality-laws/)
The 83-year-old was deep in the middle of the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing for Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen when he made the gaffe. Of course Twitter pounced like a rabid fox on the nonsensical gesture.
Here it is in all its glory.
And here's perhaps the best of the inevitable jokes that followed.
.@OrrinHatch (https://twitter.com/OrrinHatch?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) we got you, dude pic.twitter.com/ymMhRuiiOS (https://t.co/ymMhRuiiOS)
— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) January 16, 2018 (https://twitter.com/TheDailyShow/status/953327124345163777?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) Read more... (http://mashable.com/2018/01/16/orrin-hatch-imaginary-glasses/)
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