Video of Robinson invocation; Inauguration Committee nixed broadcast on HBO
by: Pam Spaulding
Mon Jan 19, 2009 at 04:35:03 AM EST
http://pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do;jsessionid=A59C027DE0474C6114753120552F66BD?diaryId=9102You couldn't see Bishop Gene Robinson's prayer at the Lincoln Memorial on HBO's coverage (my earlier post is here), due to its exclusion from the broadcast. That was a decision made by the Obama team, not the cable network, btw (AfterElton):
Contacted Sunday night by
AfterElton.com concerning the exclusion of Robinson's prayer, HBO said via email, "The producer of the concert has said that the Presidential Inaugural Committee made the decision to keep the invocation as part of the pre-show." Uncertain as to whether or not that meant that HBO was contractually prevented from airing the pre-show, we followed up, but none of the spokespeople available Sunday night could answer that question with absolute certainty. However, it does seem that the network's position is that they had nothing to do with the decision.
Sarah Pulliam of Christianity Today did shoot video and posted it:
