When C-SPAN's Online Feed Was Replaced by RT

Of all the networks in all the world to interrupt C-SPAN's feed.

For about 10 curious minutes, C-SPAN’s online feed of the business of the House of Representatives was interrupted, replaced by a broadcast of the Russian government-funded, English-language RT.

Deadspin’s Timothy Burke captured the moment and the jarring dissonance of watching Rep. Maxine Waters interrupted right after she said the phrase “literally obliterate” by a twee tune playing as a tweet about San Escobar floated across the screen behind doge-like onscreen text that read “good climate/perfect holidays,” all with RT’s lime-green logo in the bottom left.

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