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1/2 Honoring the life of Elijah Cummings? When John McCain was honored at the Capitol, there were no commercials, no speaker at the ceremony being talked over, and the entire program was shown. Now, for the first African American member of Congress to lie in ...

2/2 state is not only disrespected by anchors talking over the speakers, but went to commercial, then cut the ceremony off altogether. At least @FoxNews was honest, the ceremony wasn't on when I looked to see if they were showing it.

1/3 Today, the Going Home Service of Representative Elijah Cummings will be held at 10:00 a.m. His body left repose at the Capitol at around 6:30 a.m. Odd. When McCain had this ceremony, his funeral cortege was covered until his body was taken to the train, but even CSPAN ...

2/3 truncated their coverage of Representative Cummings, but will resume before 10:00 a.m. While @cspan , and other cable stations, have coverage of the ceremonies scheduled at 10:00 a.m., they only have it scheduled until 1:00 p.m., however the church where the funeral ...

3/3 will be held, the New Psalmist Baptist Church, has the services scheduled as ending at 3:00 p.m. If you are not near a television, New Psalmist live streams their services.

1/2 When Sen. McCain died, all cable news networks covered his funeral services for nearly 12 hours, with very little speaking over participant's comments. @MSNBC and @CNN cut from the services after little over one hour of the scheduled five hour services. Even white ...

2/2 @BET (Black) television isn't covering the funeral of the only black person in Congressional history to have this kind of a funeral. It is historical and should be seen. Even in death, there is still no equality in America. Thank you to @cspan for covering the ceremonies.

And a special Thank You to @Reuters for livestreaming the funeral on our phones and tablets.

1/2 Bill's speaking, Barack after. Maya Rockeymoore Cummings addressed the congregation, giving a rousing speech, and at the risk of jumping the gun, believe that she should be appointed by the governor, then run for Representative Cumming's seat. Maya Cummings is ...

2/2 highly credentialed, besides having a PhD. in Politics, she is also the Chair of the Maryland Democratic Party.

Note to @iamcardib , you were mentioned during the service by Rep. Cummings' daughter. Hope you were watching.

Gotta go. Barack is on. @MSNBC and @CNN carrying.