But on the back side it didn’t say nothing
That side was made for you and me.
A whole lot of folks were thrilled beyond words when Pete Seeger stood up and sang the whole damn thing. They linked to uploaded videos of the historic public event to share with friends and family and country. HBO, who bought the rights to broadcast the inauguration concert, are busy yanking down every free copy they can find. —While you can apparently watch The Whole Damn Thing on hbo.com, there’s no linkable version of This Moment or That that I can find; what century are we in, again? (But apparently, neglecting to broadcast the invocation given by Bishop Gene Robinson—the sop tossed to Obama’s GLBTQ supporters, furious over the choice of Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at the actual inaugural? That wasn’t HBO. That’s all on Obama’s Presidential Inaugural Committee.)
Okay, so it isn’t as baldly bad as I’d thought. —Anyway, here’s a version from what looks to have been German television: