Inauguration Excess?

[MountainDon]

In 2005 the AP criticized Bush for spending some $40 million dollars on his inauguration.

I have not heard a peep in the mainstream media about the amounts being spent on the inaguration for Obama. Estimates run up to $150 million dollars.   

...here's an excerpt of Lester's January 13, 2005 piece, starting with a lede designed to rain all over Bush's parade and including the suggestion from two liberal Democrats that Bush eat cold chicken salad and pound cake instead: [...]

    New York Rep. Anthony Weiner, a Democrat, suggested inaugural parties should be scaled back, citing as a precedent Roosevelt's inauguration during World War II.

    "President Roosevelt held his 1945 inaugural at the White House, making a short speech and serving guests cold chicken salad and plain pound cake," according to a letter from Weiner and Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash. "During World War I, President Wilson did not have any parties at his 1917 inaugural, saying that such festivities would be undignified."...

above from...  http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/01/18/did-newsbusters-help-ap-see-inauguration-spending-hypocrisy

No, we'll never see any criticism of this years extravaganza. Obama is the media's darling.

[StinkerBell]

The media is Big Brother, they have the power to shape the minds of its viewers. To control who goes into office and what laws get passed.

[ScottA]

The empire will drown in it's own red ink.

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[muldoon]

The empire will drown in it's own red ink.

agreed.