as opposed to “an apparent error in which a microphone is switched on or remains on, especially without the speaker realizing”
Is “hot mic” not a commonly known phrase or something? It’s literally in the dictionary.
He didn’t say this and it was accidentally caught by a mic. He just said it into a mic, on purpose. That’s not a hot mic (is what OP is saying)
agreed. it’s technically a hot mic, but c’mon
n. Informal. a microphone that is actively recording or broadcasting, especially if it captures a comment or conversation that the speaker or speakers believed to be private (often used attributively): The reporter was suspended after her profanity was caught on a hot mic.
This guy thinks they had 100 FBI agents scrub diaper’s name from the files because he was a whistle blower? Surely the best way to prove his valiant role in this ordeal is to release the unredacted files, right?
That only lands you technically correct, not idiomatically.
Not only that, but they are un-critically quoting the headline on a fucking YouTube video…
Hot Mike? Naaaa. Roberto is wayyyy hotter.
Link without paywall: https://archive.is/KHIUg
Captcha wall instead… Great…
Yeah, this is never helpful. I end up just opening in Apple News because I pay for it despite Edgesuite giving me an Access Denied due to my VPN. It’s all a big mess.
I’ve never had to solve Captchas to use archive.is before, sorry you were the lucky one. I’ll use a different site next time.
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