huffingtonpost.com - 1/26/2009
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"It was a the best of times, it was the worst of times."
Too trite? How about: "We must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America" (from Obama himself)? Maybe that's pretentious of me. OK, I've got it, let's use one last cowboy metaphor as a final nod ...
languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu - 1/21/2009
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languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu —
Chief Justice John Roberts' administration of the presidential
oath to Barack Obama was far from smooth. Early...
reports differ in saying who stumbled: NBC and ABC say the flub was Roberts', while the AP says it was Obama's. I think both men were a bit ...
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Adverbial placement in the oath flub
mediamatters.org - 1/21/2009
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mediamatters.org —
During Fox News' coverage of President Barack Obama's
January 20 inauguration, Chris Wallace, host of Fox News...
Sunday , asserted, "I'm not sure that Barack Obama really is the president of the United States, because the oath of office is set in ...
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Fox News anchors harp on oath story that experts ...
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - 1/22/2009
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Just wanted to highlight something I wrote yesterday
about Chief Justice John Roberts and his inauguration flub....
President Obama (!) was gracious enough to exonerate him and even credit Roberts for helping him out. But it sure seemed like Roberts ...
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Roberts's Rules
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