The problem with watching the swearing-in on TV isn’t the nice comfy couch, the warm temps in the house, the good coffee, clean bathrooms and great company of friends and loved ones. It’s Blitzer. I was already getting my Blitzer-based surly on by 10 a.m. Not a good sign, but I shall endure.
CNN already really stretching it with their “FACT” box. Right now: “Obama to be sworn in as first African-American president the day after Martin Luther King Jr holiday.” You just think about that for a while, I need more coffee.
I was listening to the inauguration on CNN on the radio while working in Fort Lauderdale and as much as I love Wolf Blitzer’s beard, I couldn’t help but be irritated when they came back from commercial and the tone of his voice suggested something calamitous had happened. He does this all the time to no doubt give “gravitas” to whatever benign item has appeared in the “situation room”. Let’s just rename it the Panic Room and be done with it.