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.
Apparently they adapted the title of the youtube clip:
“Yeah, I’m sure he’s in there,” Collins said, without providing evidence, according to an audio clip of the exchange uploaded to YouTube, titled, “HOT MIC: Republican caught saying Trump IS IN THE EPSTEIN FILES!”
Not only that, but they are un-critically quoting the headline on a fucking YouTube video…
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.
The best kind of correct!
(I’m with you on this one btw, it’s not the meaning they were going for here, they used it for clicks)
It’s all so tiresome.
