Was if live or was it Memorex?

But more importantly, is it even remotely possible that anyone on this planet could care less?  Because it was cold - very cold that day - and any professional performer would take all necessary precautions to ensure his/her/their performance would be the absolute best at this live once-in-a-lifetime event:

The Frigid Fingers Were Live, but the Music Wasn't

(What did you think I was talking about?  It's not like they got Mill Vanilli to do the National Anthem. )

This is what the collective media chooses to report?  Because Monday, JANUARY 21, 2013 was apparently a particularly "slow news day"?  It's not like President Obama lip-synced his inauguration speech (the speech, which by the way, got significantly less play time than either Beyonce OR Michelle Obama's bangs).

~later, (lip-syncing my way thru this post) tw