A Minnesota congressman flipped the script at a House committee hearing Wednesday — accidentally appearing upside down on video in the latest in a series of Zoom fails gone viral.<br /><br />The technological snafu by GOP Rep. Tom Emmer — seen upside down on camera during the House Financial Services Committee meeting — garnered quite a few snickers.<br /><br />“Will the gentleman suspend?” committee chairwoman Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) interrupted Emmer as he discussed job security during COVID-19.<br /><br />“I’m sorry, Mr. Emmer — are you OK?” she asked him as their colleagues audibly chuckled in the background.<br /><br />“I am,” he replied.<br /><br />“You’re upside down, Tom,” someone pointed out.<br />“I don’t know how to fix that,” Emmer admitted.<br /><br />During the topsy turvy episode someone else humorously asked, “Is this a metaphor?” Another joked that Emmer was doing a headstand.<br /><br />“You’re going viral, Tom!” someone shouted at him.<br />Emmer’s minor mishap comes on the heels of Texas lawyer Rod Ponton — who inadvertently used the cat filter on Zoom during a virtual court hearing and then went viral.<br /><br />“I’m here live. I’m not a cat,” Ponton fumbled to the judge.<br />A clearly amused Emmers tweeted later Wednesday a screenshot of his upside-down face with the caption, “I am not a cat.”
