WaPo VIDEO: John Tanner is ‘One Sorry Man’

ADDITIONAL VIDEO SPANKINGS: Reps. Davis and Ellison's Q&As in Full...

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Wow. Snap. Washington Post covered yesterday’s House Judiciary subcommittee hearings in two separate articles today and via one hell of an online video to boot.

Dana Milbank covered on page 2, opening with “John Tanner is one sorry man.” Dan Eggen covered the “political uproar” that we kicked off here at The BRAD BLOG several weeks ago, on page 4.

But it’s Milbank’s online “video sketch” that cuts to the bone, offering the best first-hand encapsulated coverage of the hearings we’ve seen to date (far better, even, than the PBS News Hour’s version last night).

Consider the following montage a “Must See!” And one that almost makes one begin to feel sorry for John “Minorities Die First” Tanner

…We said “almost.” But not by much. A reply to Tanner’s testimony yesterday — from an insider still forced to work under him at the DoJ’s Civil Rights Division Voting Section — to come shortly.

In the meantime, if you’ve yet to see the full smack-downs that Tanner received yesterday at the hands of Reps. Artur Davis (D-AL) and then Keith Ellison (D-MN), the videos of both of those brutal Q&As are posted in full below, and are similarly “Must Sees!”…

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