The Robots Are Coming For Your Closed Captions -- And That's No Baloney, Patsy

During a recent episode of the January 6 Commission hearings -- this summer's most-talked-about new show -- comedy goddess Merrill Markoe took to Twitter to call attention to what she was seeing at the bottom of her screen: The Jan 6 hearings were once again amazing, stunning and magnificent. In a related story, because it is my responsibility and my job, I have recorded the valiant attempts made by the closed-captioning software to spell Pat Cippolone. "Patsy Baloney" was soon trending on Twitter, but that's not the really interesting part (though it was hilarious, which was Markoe's intent). For the first time I alone am responsible for change in the permanent political record. In the closed captioning for the Jan 6 hearings (where i got all the screen grabs above) mid-way in Patsy Baloney and many of her friends have been replaced w/correct spelling.