{"id":25281,"date":"2020-08-18T16:35:31","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T20:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=25281"},"modified":"2020-08-18T16:42:21","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T20:42:21","slug":"while-gretchilla-says-she-learned-about-the-hot-mic-shes-proves-to-be-quite-ignorant-about-her-loose-lips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=25281","title":{"rendered":"While GRETCHILLA says she learned about the &#8216;hot mic&#8217;, she&#8217;s proves to be quite ignorant about her loose lips (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Whitmer&#8217;s irreverent joke about &#8216;Shark Week&#8217; makes waves after Dem convention speech<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->The Detroit News<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><em>Lansing\u00a0<\/em>\u2014 A purported video of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer irreverently joking about &#8220;Shark Week&#8221; and mouthing an expletive\u00a0<a class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2020\/08\/17\/whitmer-covid-democratic-convention\/5597819002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-t-l=\"|inline|intext|n\/a\">before her speech at the Democratic National Convention\u00a0<\/a>was spreading Monday night on the internet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Whitmer spoke at the convention at about 10 p.m. Monday.\u00a0<a class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" href=\"https:\/\/therecount.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-t-l=\"|inline|intext|n\/a\">The Recount<\/a>, which describes itself as a video-first political media brand, posted a short clip of Whitmer having an apparent light-hearted moment before going live on television.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_img\">\n<div style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"gnt_em_img_i\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2020\/08\/18\/PDTN\/04107d75-907c-4d97-b135-704d3ffe3a8b-Whitmer_picture_convention.JPG?width=660&amp;height=441&amp;fit=crop&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2020\/08\/18\/PDTN\/04107d75-907c-4d97-b135-704d3ffe3a8b-Whitmer_picture_convention.JPG?width=1320&amp;height=882&amp;fit=crop&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp 2x\" alt=\"Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer speaks during the Democratic National Convention on Monday, Aug. 17, 2020.\" width=\"660\" height=\"441\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer speaks during the Democrat National Convention. Governor&#8217;s Office Photo: Julie Pickett<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"gnt_em_img_ccw gnt_em_img_ccw__cap gnt_em_img_ccw__crd\" data-c-caption=\"Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer speaks during the Democratic National Convention on Monday, Aug. 17, 2020.\" data-c-credit=\"Governor's Office Photo, Julia Pickett, Photographer\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">It was unclear how the video was obtained by The Recount, a year-old venture started by journalists John Battelle and John Heilemann, the site&#8217;s executive editor and a political analyst for NBC and MSNBC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;It&#8217;s not just Shark Week,&#8221; Whitmer says in the apparent clip. She then says, &#8220;It&#8217;s Shark Week&#8221; before mouthing &#8220;m&#8212;&#8211; f&#8212;&#8211;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_tw\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-method=\"loadTwitter\" data-v-id=\"1295542788046630913\" aria-label=\"Twitter Embed\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?creatorScreenName=detroitnews&amp;dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1295542788046630913&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.detroitnews.com%2Fstory%2Fnews%2Fpolitics%2F2020%2F08%2F18%2Fwhitmer-irreverent-joke-shark-week-makes-sense-internet%2F3388789001%2F&amp;siteScreenName=detroitnews&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=223fc1c4%3A1596143124634&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1295542788046630913\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The joke was apparently in reference to Discovery Channel&#8217;s &#8220;Shark Week,&#8221; seven days of shark-related programming that ended Saturday.\u00a0Those gathered at United Auto Workers Local 652, where Whitmer spoke, laughed at the governor&#8217;s joke, according to the video.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;I have learned about the hot mic,&#8221; Whitmer then said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">A Whitmer spokesman didn&#8217;t immediately respond to a question about the video. And The Recount didn&#8217;t respond to questions about it either.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">But Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist II joked about the incident Tuesday morning on social media by tweeting: &#8220;What week is it, @gretchenwhitmer?&#8221;\u00a0<a class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gretchenwhitmer\/status\/1295732898075742208?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-t-l=\"|inline|intext|n\/a\">Whitmer tweeted<\/a>\u00a0from her campaign a Discovery Channel digital image of a shark swimming.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The Recount&#8217;s Twitter account has more than 293,000 followers. The clip of Whitmer before her speech had more than 70,000 views before midnight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Heilemann tweeted out the clip Monday night.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">OMFG <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rJoQMXYVU3\">https:\/\/t.co\/rJoQMXYVU3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; John Heilemann (@jheil) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jheil\/status\/1295565439871967234?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 18, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2020\/08\/18\/whitmer-irreverent-joke-shark-week-makes-sense-internet\/3388789001\/\">https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2020\/08\/18\/whitmer-irreverent-joke-shark-week-makes-sense-internet\/3388789001\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whitmer&#8217;s irreverent joke about &#8216;Shark Week&#8217; makes waves after Dem convention speech<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}