{"id":20553,"date":"2025-11-16T20:27:51","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T19:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/?p=20553"},"modified":"2025-11-16T20:51:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T19:51:29","slug":"ein-fliegender-moment-und-ein-abgeordneter-in-schwerer-erklaerungsnot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/ein-fliegender-moment-und-ein-abgeordneter-in-schwerer-erklaerungsnot\/","title":{"rendered":"A flying moment - and a congressman in serious need of explanation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brad Sherman understands the mechanics of public outrage better than many of his colleagues. For nearly three decades he has served as a Democratic representative from California in the House of Representatives, an experienced budget and foreign policy specialist, a member of the influential Committee on Financial Services and the Committee on Foreign Affairs. A man who usually comments on sober reports, financial oversight and international agreements - not images seen by millions on their smartphones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The congressman Brad Sherman of the Democratic Party from the 32nd District in California<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Yet it is exactly such an image that has now caught up with him. On a flight on November 14, 2025, somewhere over the United States, a passenger held up his phone and photographed Sherman, who was bent over his iPad. On the screen were women in underwear and bikinis, apparently from his \u201cFor You\u201d feed on X. The scene spread rapidly within just a few hours - 5.4 million views by the next morning. The accusation was clearly framed: a congressman watching pornography on a plane. Sherman rejects this categorically. He says he was simply scrolling through his X feed. \u201cIf I see a picture of a woman - do I look at it longer than a sunset? Yes,\u201d he said later. \u201cI must have scrolled through more than a thousand posts.\u201d The images, he said, were shown to him \u201cbecause of the algorithms.\u201d It was not his interest but the result of a system that pushes out content without being asked. His face tells a different story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n