Forgot about Chief Roberts!
Mr. Cavett also had an opinion about the Chief Justice and the mangled recitation of the oath:
"As with all good entertainments, there was unintended comic relief.
Not since Robert Goulet forgot the words to the national anthem has there been a moment to rival the chief justice’s blowing his lines, turning The Oath of Office into an Abbott & Costello “Who’s-on first?” routine.
The giggling schoolboy side of me thought it laughable as hell. What would the funny man do next? Drop the Lincoln bible on his foot?
Yet the increasingly curmudgeonly side of me frowned and found it inexcusable. It isn’t as if some tipsy, third-rate actor did it. It was the chief justice of the Supreme Court of the United States!
And he was playing to perhaps the largest audience in world history.
Nerves? Stage fright?
How nervous could a man in his position possibly be? As one of the dozen remaining people in the country with job security — and for life — oughtn’t he be at least relatively calm?"
Like I said, a national treasure!
"As with all good entertainments, there was unintended comic relief.
Not since Robert Goulet forgot the words to the national anthem has there been a moment to rival the chief justice’s blowing his lines, turning The Oath of Office into an Abbott & Costello “Who’s-on first?” routine.
The giggling schoolboy side of me thought it laughable as hell. What would the funny man do next? Drop the Lincoln bible on his foot?
Yet the increasingly curmudgeonly side of me frowned and found it inexcusable. It isn’t as if some tipsy, third-rate actor did it. It was the chief justice of the Supreme Court of the United States!
And he was playing to perhaps the largest audience in world history.
Nerves? Stage fright?
How nervous could a man in his position possibly be? As one of the dozen remaining people in the country with job security — and for life — oughtn’t he be at least relatively calm?"
Like I said, a national treasure!
posted by buckarooskidoo at 2:38 PM
1 Comments:
Yes, but it had an up side, lots of fun comic relief on Fox & in the other psycho right media as folks speculated that between the mangled oath and the 2nd one where Obama didn't have his hand on a Bible, "is he really President?"
Ah, it's going to be an interesting time in paranoia right world, isn't it.
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