Thankfully most of the post-Inuaguration media attention has focused – as it should – on the actual content of President Obama’s speech. But there’s also been a fair amount of understandable attention paid to the garbling of the Presidential oath, with US Chief Justice John Roberts copping most of the flak for fluffing his lines, and tripping up Obama. The video’s below – but the full transcript and best dissection is over at ElectoralVote.com, which identifies the four key mistakes…
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Blimey, what a fuss about nothing!
I was astonished with the amount of license fee payers money we had spent flying out what seemed like half of the BBC news staff to the D.C. that no one picked up on this insident at the time.