Today, I’m taking in the Inaugration of Barack Obama on my couch by watching every network. This is history.
ABC:
10:21: So many people have been coming to the mall by Metro and one person was hit by a train, a 68-year-old woman. She’s alive, but they don’t know her condition. The main train has been shut down. There have been some heart attacks.
10:38: Spike Lee is glad to be there and he is wearing a Yankee’s hat with flaps and fur. Lee is humble–for a change. Robin Roberts said her mom is in the crowd. Spike Lee said there has never been two days like this back to back in the history of this country.
A man in the crowd held up a sign that read, “Nov. 4, 2008: Mission Accomplished. Go Obama.”
The crowd is well behaved according to ABC News.
This article appears in Jan 20-27, 2009.
OK, nothing was as bad as the abc reporter who asked Magic Johnson what this meant to him as an African-American. It was very awkward, and I think they forgot to shut off a microphone, because you could hear someone laughing…