- Gene Robinson, the gay Episcopal bishop, delivered a four-minute invocation at the Mall on Sunday. Although HBO had exclusive rights to broadcast the invocation it did not make it to air. [Politico]
- Thoroughly reliable source and garbage PUMA blogger Perez Hilton says that Robinson’s invocation didn’t air because Obama’s people told HBO not to air it. [Perez Hilton]
- HBO says that the invocation did not air because of a “planning error.” The Inaugural concert began its live broadcast at 2:30pm (ET) and Robinson’s invocation started at 2:20pm (ET). The invocation will air in repeats and will stream on HBO.com. [Deadline Hollywood]
- Meanwhile, a Washington Post-ABC News poll found that 61% of people surveyed said they back Rick Warren as the inaugural invocation pick. [Washington Post]
- Dick Cheney pulled a muscle in his back yesterday while moving boxes into his new house. He will be attending Obama’s inauguration in a wheelchair. [Reuters]
- Meanwhile, on Monday a federal judge lifted an injunction requiring preservation of Dick Cheney’s records because she said she expected Cheney to preserve them himself. The injunction was put in place when a group of government watchdogs and historians claimed that Cheney might destroy some of his records. [UPI]
- Blogette Meghan McCain got an exclusive interview with her mother for The Daily Beast. Cindy said that although she “is not bitter” she did think there was a strong bias in the media against her husband, John McCain. [Wonkette, Poynter]
- Last night Obama held a dinner honoring McCain whom he called an American hero and whose bipartisanship he hopes to follow. [MSNBC, The Page]
- McCain has told Fox News that Palin could someday be President. [The Page]
- An effigy of Sarah Palin with a noose around her neck was taken off of eBay on Sunday. This is the same effigy that was protested by the Mayor of West Hollywood when it was hung outside of a West Hollywood home of a professional window dresser and his partner before the election. [UPI]
- George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States, died peacefully in his sleep last night. He was 62. [The Onion]
- Nancy Pelosi went on Fox News to say that she wants Obama to extend the Bush tax cuts (for families earning more than $250,000) when they expire in 2010. [Politico]
- Adorable child-reporter Damon Weaver is still looking to lock down a one-on-one with Obama as he covers the inauguration today. [NPR]
- Ha ha: Bush has decided to not pardon Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff, Scooter Libby, for his 2007 conviction in the CIA leak case. [Newsweek]
- Sources say that Obama may quickly issue an executive order to reverse a Bush abortion policy (commonly called “the Mexico City policy”) that prohibited funding for international family planning groups that provided, promoted or provided information about abortion services. [CNN]
- Bill Ayers has been denied entry into Canada because of a 1969 conviction during an anti-war demonstration. [MSNBC]
- Oh yeah: in keeping with tradition, Bush left a note for Obama . [MSNBC]
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