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Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines —
... The Boston Globe has assembled a stunning array of photos from Inauguration Day. From viewing parties around the world, including Obama’s father’s home town in Kenya, to Olympians Tommie Smith and John Carlos embracing to the satellite view of the crowds gathered at the Mall, the images capture the excitement and wonder of that historic day.
Click here to see the gallery.
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Worth a Thousand Words
The Hollywood Liberal —
... The Boston Globe has assembled a stunning array of photos from Inauguration Day. Images from Washington, D.C., and from viewing parties around the world capture the excitement and wonder of that historic day. The subjects include Kenyans in Obama’s father’s home town, former Olympians Tommie Smith and John Carlos embracing, and crowds at the capital’s Mall as photographed from a satellite. Click here to see the gallery. (h/t ...
Obama’s “Historic” Inaugural Draws Less than One Millon People
Flopping Aces —
... use the quote marks because they really are acting as agents of Obama’s continuing political campaign) estimated a crowd of two million. After giving that headline plenty of ink, the figure has now dropped to somewhere around a million and headed south quickly.
“More than one million” is quickly becoming “about a million” and may soon settle comfortably below that according to at least one study done with photographic analysis.
A full size satellite image of the scene is available here.
It’s fun watching the ...
One Last Photo Fix
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
by Chris Bodenner Inaugural shots from The Big Picture and behind-the-scenes with Time's Callie Shell. ...
In Pictures
Shakesville —
The Boston Globe has a fantastic photo essay of the inauguration. It was hard to choose a handful for the post, as there are many great pictures. You should check it out! ...
A whole series of amazing pictures
Rising Hegemon —
From the Inauguration on Tuesday found here: You really MUST go see the series, I cannot begin to tell you how sweeping and poignant some of them are.
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The Republic of T. —
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Worst. Inauguration. Ever. Part II: The Reckoning?
Firedoglake —
... Also, I have to link to this enormous overhead picture (third one down when you scroll), which shows that 20 minutes after the inaugural ceremony began, there is still plenty of room in one of the purple sections. To me, that says the problem is not that there were too many purple tickets handed out—the problem lay in someone’s lack of ability to get thousands with legitimate tickets from outside the gates, through the entry point (I say point, and not points, because, despite what DC police claimed, I saw with my own eyes that the second gate was not ...
