Cerumengate: Was Congressman Chewing Hangnail, or Eating Ear

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Cerumengate: Was Congressman Chewing Hangnail, or Eating Ear

Post by Riddick » 05-21-2014 01:51 AM



House Judiciary Committee meetings are already incredibly thrilling and action-packed, obviously, but last week, things got even more interesting after Florida Congressman Joe Garcia picked his ear and ate it.

Of course, the whole thing was recorded live on C-SPAN. In the video above, you can clearly see the Democrat digging in his ear, inspecting his findings, placing them into his mouth, and then going back for seconds.

He got an earful (get it?) from lots of grossed-out people, so yesterday, he took to Twitter to respond:
  • My mom always told me to keep my fingers out of my mouth, and now I know why. #hangnail #ithappens #camerasrolling—
    Rep. Joe Garcia (@RepJoeGarcia) May 13, 2014
  • Those damn hangnails, they'll get you every time #perceptioniseverything—
    Rep. Joe Garcia (@RepJoeGarcia) May 13, 2014
Okay, okay, we guess that’s a valid explanation, but he sounds so defensive. Something is just not quite right here. Either way, now he knows that what happens on C-SPAN apparently doesn’t just stay on C-SPAN.

http://time.com/99049/congressman-eats-earwax-on-cspan

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Post by Cherry Kelly » 05-24-2014 01:32 PM

yup was a hangnail -- seems he does it quite often... chews on his nails.

probably wanted to scratch his ears and got a worse "scratch" than an ordinary ear scratch - looked at his nail and OHOH - rough hangnail....

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