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Saturday, January 17, 2009

No media mudballs this time

Powerline takes us back in time via the Wayback Machine to see how previous inaugurations were handled by the press.

Read the whole thing. Here's how it ends...

The day before Bush's swearing-in, ABC's Web site pleaded for tips of "any military funerals for Iraq war casualties scheduled for Thursday, Jan. 20." Sure enough, then-ABC anchor Peter Jennings got his wish to report how "just about the time the president was speaking, there was a funeral for a young Marine reservist: 21-year-old Matthew Holloway was killed in Iraq last week by a roadside bomb." Don't look for the networks to use such tactics to sour Obama's celebration.

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