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NBC deviated from this week's trend by deciding not to close its newscast with a pre-Inaugural feature. Anchor Brian Williams explained that he is so proud of his personal collection of military Challenge Coins that he assigned Roger O'Neil to file an entire feature on them. O'Neil gave us World War I history and the difference between "military unit" coins and "commander" coins and the alcoholic origin of the term "challenge" and the Highland Mint's popularity and the secret handshake method of delivery. So now you know.
CBS and ABC stuck with Obamafeatures. ABC's John Berman clearly had fun with the news that Marian Robinson, the First Mother-in-Law-to-be, will take up residence in Barack Obama's White House. He channeled Mark Twain ("Adam was the luckiest man. He had no mother-in-law") and Henny Youngman ("I just got back from a pleasure trip. I took my mother-in-law to the airport") before averring that mothers-in-law play an ever more important role in young families' childrearing. "And I am not just saying that because I have to, which I do."
CBS' Steve Hartman nailed a fine human interest feature on the Bonny Brae Knights, "just a ragtag group of bad news snares," who have been invited to march in the Inaugural Parade. Bonny Brae is a residential treatment center for troubled teenage boys in New Jersey whose director lied about his charges' drumming abilities, "all minor details he figured he would fix if by some miracle the group ever got accepted." So the acceptance letter arrived and now it is practice, practice, practice.
By the way, ABC's Berman concluded: "Maybe Mark Twain was wrong: Adam was not lucky; men like Obama are--and I am not just saying that because I have to."
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