(sitting at table, second from left)
Listening to the Jan. 6 committee hearings on You Tube: the process is being guided by U.S. Representative Bennie Thompson, Chair, and U.S. Representative Liz Cheney, who is Vice chair.
(Ms. Cheney represents Wyoming; Mr. Thompson represents a district in the state of Mississippi.)
As I listened, the Watergate hearings came to mind -- Thompson and Cheney are doing such a good job, they made me think of Sam Ervin, who ran the Senate hearings in 1973 to try and get to the bottom of those shenanigans.
Appropriate equanimity and gravitas, I thought.
The other similarity to the 1973 proceedings is Southern accents! - luscious, pillowy -- they make the listener feel kind of calm and pleasantly lazy and expansive, even while the speaker is describing some things that aren't very good, or honest.
Bennie Thompson's is of course a Mississippi accent, while Sam Ervin's was North Carolinian -- Southerners could probably differentiate between them right away, but to my personal midwestern listenership -- they both just make me wanna put on a Muddy Waters record!
Oh, yeah
Oh, yeah
Everything gonna be alright this mornin'...
♪ ♪ ♫♫ ♫
And, to me, Liz Cheney has no accent -- she just "talks regular."
To her fellow members of Congress she said, "To those Republicans who are defending the indefensible, there will come a day when Trump is gone, but your dishonor will remain."
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