Back

Chuck Schumer interrupts:

"Will the gentleman yield for a question?"

Cory Booker, smiling:

"Chuck Schumer, it's the only time in my life I can tell you 'no.'"

Schumer interrupts anyway, asking Booker if he realizes that he has just broken Strom Thurmond's record and letting him know the country is proud of him

And the gallery goes wild...

...and Booker says he'll go for seven more minutes and then get the rest he so richly deserves

We're onto the 'thank you' portion now

Cynically, I'll admit that this felt like a performative stunt last night

I was wrong.

I don't know about anyone else, but I needed this

@Okanogen
Schumer shouldn't have been the one to interrupt. But were I Booker's speechwriter, I'd have ensured that *someone* asked. Of course Booker can read a clock (it's why he held back that John Lewis story), but he can't give himself the shoutout

For the gallery to give him the ovation, someone else has to hand him that moment

Years ago my boss wanted to tell a self-aggrandizing story in a quarterly letter. I told him to feed a TV interviewer the q instead. It worked out much better

@kims
Yeah, that was my point. Many others could have asked a question, espeially after Booker said "No".