They are not "attacking" that guy for drinking water, they are making jokes because the damn thing looks like it holds about a gallon.

Not everything is a life and death political struggle against existential forces of good and evil.

On that note, dehydration makes you irritable and fogs your brain, so drink up!

"The EPA is trying to stop this kind of health-based data to inform policies and inhibit pollution."
When Corps (and Fundies) own OUR government, have bought it, Legally!, don't expect the Citizenry to be respected. Farmed, yes; respected? Please...

"I love dying slowly in the United States of America at the hands of the United States of America. Don't you?" As long as a teeny tiny few can make A Killing, whotf are WE to question . . . anything?

"They [FOX & Fiends] are literally attacking one of the impeachment witnesses for.......drinking water."
As all NeoCons know, Real Men drink Whiskey. Or, if anyone's looking, Vodka. Water is for Sissys.

@1 Given the length of a typical congressional hearing, I'd say it only makes sense to use a larger size of the thing, especially if you're expecting to give a lot of testimony.

Then again, the on-air talent at Fox News have pretty cushy jobs, so I guess it's not too surprising they've never seen anyone use a water bottle that wouldn't fit in a purse.

And really, anything to distract from all the boring words that keep coming out of the witness's mouth, eh?

@1: Indeed. Let's see: Marco Rubio's reaching offset for water, Trump's water guzzling from behind the podium, Margaret Blasey Ford and her gigantic Cokes, Georg'e Kent's megabottle, and so on...

Nobody's attacking no-one. We're just grasping a little comic relief. Those who protest that are the epitome of disingenuousness.

Oh, and this Watergate, Jr. FOX facts-free fuckery is just Reich wing
Payback for Mark Rubio's suspiciously surreptitious attempt at hydration:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19ZxJVnM5Gs

It's long (38 sec.) but check it out at 24 sec.

@5 Exactly! All this "testimony" and "evidence" is SO BORING, amirite?

Good thing we don't have any tight-asses around here who get all pissy about respect for government and the constitution and giving serious attention to serious proceedings and all that crap.

@2
No, real men (and women) drink water from Flint, Michigan! Don't you want your daily dose of minerals and additives?
And if you own more than one yacht, maybe flavor it with some single malt Scotch!

@7: No it wasn't boring.

@9 Poor raindrop. You hit yourself in the head so hard when you took a swing with that "disingenuous" bat, you don't even know it's happened yet.

@11: After you responded "Exactly" to my comment - and so now you're trying to contort this into a side squabble that nobody is interested in. But do continue, maybe blip has something to add.

What I do is get one of those 15L water cooler bottles and carry it around slung over my shoulder, and wherever I sit I just slam that motherfucker down right in the aisle.

Everytime I feel thirsty I stand up, lift the bottle to my mouth with both arms, making sure to spill plenty of water onto myself and all over the floor as I do. I let out a deep and loud exhalation of satisfaction after each quench, and the finish by slamming the bottle back onto the ground before loudly saying "WHEW I needed that, I was getting a bit THIRSTY!"

Then when I leave I make sure to pick up the bottle in a way that any remaining water just pours out onto the floor.

@Teddy -- you're def not the Slob I'd pictured.
You're Wetter. Well
played.

Seemingly innocent jokes about water drinking habits on fox tv as well as on this thread serve the same purpose: distracting the public from damning testimonies as to how our pres and his administration operate.

@15: An observation is not a distraction.

No wonder you and your innocent funny friend picked up on that. Any words about the testimonies?

I'll give you just one CMD: damning

@14: Slob? (laughs in 13% soaking wet body fat)

@18: Or maybe because it was an item in the post you are commenting on, genius. If you really want to bitch and moan about the temerity of people talking about things without your approval, you should probably whine to The Stranger itself then and spare us all your crying, because most of us are here to goof off and waste time.

Go start your own blog if seeing some goofiness hurts your delicate butt so much.

20.
Def not a Fat Slob.
Apologies!

Hold your horsed my friend- I was commenting on what was written in slog about fox news, pointing out why they did what they did and how this commenters discussion was framed by some humor-oriented innocent folks right from the outset.

Now that I got your attention, is it constitutional to demand a foreign country to investigate your domestic political rivals, withholding implementation of any agreed upon policies and deals until they follow through with your assumed illegal request?

horses...

The two are orthogonal. Levity doesn't preclude the serous attention to the matter at hand.

That Missourian needs to get rid of the pumpkins. It’s mid-November for Christ’s

it can still distract, or at least attempt to.

So what? Nothing wrong with distraction. Human brains are marvelous things, they prioritize and multitask thousands of things every day.

@25: Well, pumpkins are Thanksgiving decor as well - but I concur.

Remember, it's Christmas Season, so put up your Daylight Savings Time Christmas Lights now, before they sell out!

raindrop @ 27- and while you did that and it is appreciated, what stops our 13% fat constitution scholar to chime on the more important issue?

I'm sorry @30, you're being so coy and indirect but still ruminating over the nuances of a discussion that past its shelf life hours ago.

The only important issue now is what to make for dinner.