no privacy

[Jonathan Lighter]

CNN's Wolf Blitzer  reports that "President Obama...took the oath of office
yesterday in a private ceremony viewed right here around the globe."

There was no intonational hint that WB might have found the sentence a
little odd.

JL

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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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