From Marc Amber at The Atlaantic:
Barack Obama's inaugural committee is taking for the blame for a scheduling miscue that left gay Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson's prayer out of HBO's live broadcast of yesterday's inaugural megaconcert.
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An inaugural committee aide calls it a "simple mistake."
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Tomorrow, before an audience of 2 million people on the Mall, the inaugural committee will broadcast an edited version of the program on Jumboscreens that includes his prayer.
It was, the aide says, "[a]n honest, unfortunate mistake in executing the program that for which we take responsibility."
The team has apologized to Robinson.
All right, then. The outcry must have been great.
Is there a lesson here on pushback, once Obama takes office? We'll also need to let the Congress know that, although Obama is popular, the Congress is held in low esteem, and they'd best not put up roadblocks to change.
Thanks to Dennis for sending the link.
UPDATE: It's refreshing to see the inaugural committee take responsibility. A new day has dawned, indeed.
UPDATE 2: Go read Bishop Gene's account at his blog of his amazing Monday.
Really neat...I accept the apology on behalf of all human beings everywhere...thanks for making ¨it¨ right President Obama!
ReplyDeleteLeo, I do, too.
ReplyDeleteI wonder what kind of mistake that was. Gene posts on his blog that he knew a while ago that his prayer would not be broadcast.
ReplyDeleteErika, I believe that he meant that he knew early Monday that he would not be broadcast. Presumably, it was an earlier mistaken decision by the committee.
ReplyDeleteAccording to the update, + Robinson was invited onto the dias during the innauguration. That's a positive development, don't you think?
ReplyDeleteHillbilly, that is a good thing. Perhaps Bishop Gene got more attention for not being televised than he would have had he been shown. And now we move on.
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