Inauguration

[Dinner]

[GePap]

Couldn't they try to get better voice actors?

[Dinner]

I had no idea Ben was into Furries.

Eyuggggh....

He thinks it yiff-tastic.

[Naked Gents Rut]

Decent speech, but no real iconic phrases or sentances.

You just described every Obama speech.

[Darius871]

WTF... how the hell did yesterday's ratings lose to Reagan??? Weren't there like 100 million less Americans back then?

Nearly 37.8 million Americans watching at home viewed President Barack Obama’s oath of office and inaugural speech between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. ET on January 20, 2009. This is the most viewed inauguration since the record of 41.8 million viewers who watched Ronald Reagan’s 1981 inauguration.

http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/...th-and-speech/

[FrostyBoy]

Decent speech, but no real iconic phrases or sentances.

You just described every Obama speech.

He did say one thing which I liked, but maybe I have heard it elsewhere before?

I don't remember it word for word, but it's something like, "People respect you for what you build, not for what you destroy."

[Rufus T. Firefly]

WTF... how the hell did yesterday's ratings lose to Reagan??? Weren't there like 100 million less Americans back then?

Nearly 37.8 million Americans watching at home viewed President Barack Obama’s oath of office and inaugural speech between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. ET on January 20, 2009. This is the most viewed inauguration since the record of 41.8 million viewers who watched Ronald Reagan’s 1981 inauguration.

http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/...th-and-speech/

You forget that we invented the internet since then. The ratings don't measure those watching streaming video online. CNN, CNET, and a bunch of other sites all offered streaming video and all reported record traffic on Tuesday. Using your numbers plus CNN's number's, below, that would put Obama at 45.5 million viewers, almost 4 million more than Reagan -- five million, if you add the extra million+ who were on the Mall (1.8 million vs. Reagan's 0.5 million).

(CNN) -- With many workers stuck at their desks during the late-morning swearing-in of President Obama on Tuesday, more people than ever went online to watch live video of the historic inauguration.

News sites, including CNN.com, shattered records for viewers watching live streaming video online. And, sometimes for the first time, news sites carried video feeds on their front pages.

About 7.7 million people watched the inauguration on Tuesday online at the same time, according to Akamai Technologies Inc. That likely makes the inauguration the single most-watched event in the history of live Web video, according to the company, which handles Web traffic for more than 150 news sites worldwide, including nytimes.com, Ustream, Viacom, WSJ.com and others.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/01/21/inauguration.online.video/

edit - Mrs. Firefly also points out that, thanks to cable (also a largely post-1981 development) many, many more workplaces and public spaces have TVs now than did at the time of the Reagan inauguration -- and that the Nielsen's don't measure the viewing on such TVs. So, basically, fewer people watched the Obama inauguration at home, on a television, but that says more about the changing times and technology than it does about Obama or Reagan.

[Darius871]

You forget that we invented the internet since then. The ratings don't measure those watching streaming video online. CNN, CNET, and a bunch of other sites all offered streaming video and all reported record traffic on Tuesday. Using your numbers plus CNN's number's, below, that would put Obama at 45.5 million viewers, almost 4 million more than Reagan -- five million, if you add the extra million+ who were on the Mall (1.8 million vs. Reagan's 0.5 million).

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/01/21/inauguration.online.video/

edit - Mrs. Firefly also points out that, thanks to cable (also a largely post-1981 development) many, many more workplaces and public spaces have TVs now than did at the time of the Reagan inauguration -- and that the Nielsen's don't measure the viewing on such TVs. So, basically, fewer people watched the Obama inauguration at home, on a television, but that says more about the changing times and technology than it does about Obama or Reagan.

Good, I thought that didn't make any sense.

[The Mad Monk]

WTF... how the hell did yesterday's ratings lose to Reagan??? Weren't there like 100 million less Americans back then?

Nearly 37.8 million Americans watching at home viewed President Barack Obama’s oath of office and inaugural speech between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. ET on January 20, 2009. This is the most viewed inauguration since the record of 41.8 million viewers who watched Ronald Reagan’s 1981 inauguration.

http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/...th-and-speech/

They had just survived Carter.

[Imran Siddiqui]

[Boris Godunov]

Yeah, but that's MSNBC, probably just Olbermann and Mathews booing (if that is what the clip is )

I thought the funny bit was Cheney getting whisked off to the side as Bush kept walking forward. The look on his face seemed to be, "Hey! Wait a minute!"

[Timexwatch]

Even stranger news that I heard after my tour yesterday: There was only one arrest connected to the inauguration that MPD has heard of. Pretty amazing, even if that doesn't factor in Park Police and other agencies who have jurisdiction over the mall.

[Dinner]

You forget that we invented the internet since then. The ratings don't measure those watching streaming video online. CNN, CNET, and a bunch of other sites all offered streaming video and all reported record traffic on Tuesday. Using your numbers plus CNN's number's, below, that would put Obama at 45.5 million viewers, almost 4 million more than Reagan -- five million, if you add the extra million+ who were on the Mall (1.8 million vs. Reagan's 0.5 million).

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/01/21/inauguration.online.video/

That would be my guess too. I watched it online as did several people I know.

[DaShi]

A lot of people watched it in groups and love-ins. Plus, with the economy so bad, many people sold their TVs for Obama t-shirts.

[DanS]

Even stranger news that I heard after my tour yesterday: There was only one arrest connected to the inauguration that MPD has heard of. Pretty amazing, even if that doesn't factor in Park Police and other agencies who have jurisdiction over the mall.

Which I'm sure makes somebody assigned to mass arrests incredibly bored.

Bet you didn't think your job would be this action-packed.