The Inauguration: Was It Live Or Was It … Memorex
We’ve already written about President Obama’s strict new rules against lobbyists in his administration that, upon closer inspection, aren’t really very strict at all. Now … this. From the NY Times:
The somber, elegiac tones before President Obama’s oath of office at the inauguration on Tuesday came from the instruments of Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman and two colleagues. But what the millions on the Mall and watching on television heard was in fact a recording
But inauguration organizers want everyone to know–this was not as bad as it sounds:
Carole Florman, a spokeswoman for the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, said on Thursday. “No one’s trying to fool anybody. This isn’t a matter of Milli Vanilli,” … referring to the pop band that was stripped of a 1989 Grammy because the duo did not sing on their album and lip-synched in concerts.
So they hired four of the country’s most accomplished musicians to appear before millions of people and pretend to play. But “no one’s trying to fool anybody”?
All we can say is, thank goodness this didn’t happen (warning: the first couple seconds of this are in Spanish):
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