During a live interview with Chris Matthews on Hardball on MSNBC, California Representative Eric Swalwell appears to rip a Force 10 Pants Buster.
The audio of the incident has been explained by producers at Hardball to be a coffee mug sliding across a desktop but that didn't stop the Twitterverse from labeling the apparent "butt blast" #fartgate.
You be the judge. Toot or no toot?