Did DL fave Eric Swalwell fart on live TV?

That's funny!

LOL that cannot be real. He even paused and lifted off the ground a little.

It's real alright. It's trending all over Twitter.

He has already denied it's him. I think someone dragged a table or something.

It may, in fact, be Chris Matthews. His audio would interrupt Eric Swalwell's.

It was the chair.

Yeah, I suspected it may be the chair as well. That it happens as his speech pauses is strange though. Regardless this is so silly.

It was a power fart if it was one. If you crack a sneaker, it's usually pretty brief. That was lengthy.

I can't figure out why so many of you ladies lather over this guy. His mouth looks like it's been belt sanded.

Swalwell’s mic wouldn’t have picked it up.

They would have to mic his ass to get that loud a sound.

I think it was Larry King.

His facial expression gives it away that it's him. He looks like he's trying to hold in a fart, but can't.

Sorry to disappoint the conspiracy theorists - it was the #hardball mug scraping across the desk. Get yours today and let’s get back to the news!

Who’da thunkit that Joe Biden has better flatulent control than Eric Swalwell?

r12 That's just how he looks. He has resting fart face.

Resting fart face is genius, and exactly what he has.

Did Chris say anything about it?

The pause that refreshes!

R1 yes very funny, laughing so hard I just pee’d a little

Pres Bone Spurs can't fart with out a tsunami of diarrhea.

that sounded moist and bubbly

R13 That’s what ‘they’ want you to think. It was clearly Swalwell. Watch his face at the moment the sound is made.

Now he’s claiming TOTAL EXONERATION

It sounded more like the vibration of a cell on silent.

R13 A mug? That doesn’t pass the smell test.

His smile looks wack because he suffered from Bell’s palsy. But I prefer the explanation of resting fart face.

Wasn't a fart, it was just his hole telling us it's a bottom.

I wish this had happened to a repub because now the right wing trolls on twitter and Fox "News" will play this clip whenever Swalwell says something they don't like (meaning it's truthful and/or a great point).

Sounds like a post anal sex fart.

Mussy must be fed.

That was a fart.

You wouldn't let rip like that in the middle of an interview. A fart like that would feel big inside, and you would instinctively hold it. Unless you had no sphincter control whatsoever.

Fart expert at r30 is right, as always.

How dumb. The mic is not up his ass.

Chris Mathews has had some serious health problems of late, so I strongly suspect he is the author of this fart.

[quote]Now he’s claiming TOTAL EXONERATION

That tweet reads like he's playing along with the whole joke though, no one tweets "TOTAL EXONERATION!" in all caps and means it seriously.

It was bound to happen at some point. This fucker spends 80% of his Congressional career in front of a camera, so I'm not surprised at one point he would accidentally let one rip.

r34 Yes, that tweet is obviously making fun of Trump's exact same tweet from earlier this year.

Oh, right, Trump WOULD say something like that seriously! I'd forgotten about that.

He does pause from speaking right as it comes out. Definitely a fart.

Eric "I'm Gonna NUT!" Swalwell!

"Pass the torch! Pass the torch! Pass the torch!"

The pause may have been because he heard a noise, not because he made the noise.

Either way this is just some fun we're having for a day or two, after that the only people who will bring it up are online Deplorables who will think they're being incredibly clever.

I'm gonna FART!

I still think it was a fart. The way he momentarily pauses at the exact moment the sound starts totally seems like a surprise loud farts. You know one of those ones you think will just slip out quietly but then sounds like an explosion.

Total bottom

[quote]Wasn't a fart, it was just his hole telling us it's a bottom.

That sounded like ten tubas. He's no bottom.

It5's definitely Matthews. He must have thought his mic was out as soon as the Swallwell feed took over. But they didn't cut it off as quickly as they should have.

There is, however, some guy on Twitter claiming to have proof that it's a cellphone buzz.

Reminded me of this classic...

I'm sure more than one DLer has jerked to the OP's video.

Why would he even comment on it?

Whoever smelt it, dealt it.

An un-endearing co-worker once farted in my face. Very unprofessional, whether the cameras are rolling or not.

It's the fart game. You'll play someday, son!