Reporter used spit to fix hair and Twitter can't handle it

Pity the remote reporter who has no control when the feed goes live and catches him or her in a vulnerable moment.

This happened to NBC's Matt Bradley who was broadcasting a live spot from Syria about the fight against ISIS. When the feed switched over, unbeknownst to Bradley, viewers got a full dose of the reporter using his spit to fix his hair.

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Oh man, poor Bradley. Plenty of us have done something similar before in a moment of desperation but we weren't caught doing it on national cable television. Sure enough, Twitter responded to video of the moment with shock.

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Amidst the rush of Twitter's bombardment of GIFs and jokes, though, CNBC anchor Carl Quintanilla chimed in later, coming to the defense of his network-mate with a really good point.

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Indeed, fighting continues in Syria despite reports that ISIS has lost control of its last territory in the war-torn country. But when it came to the spitting incident, Bradley handled the reaction with good humor.

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With that out of the way, Bradley did eventually get to do his report on-air, free of any spitting, and he continues to relay essential information from the ground where the fight continues.

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