[o_zarkman44]

A fitting tribute to a FAKE president.

[Izzy Dunne]

I get it - this is a British paper, so "sub-zero" means below 0 CENTIGRADE = below freezing.

The actual temp was around 20 (F).

My bad.

[hiho hiho]

The whole concept of Television is fake. Fake sets (no backs). Fake emotion. Style no substance.

[N. Theknow]

So..the music was fake but accurate?

[Canedawg]

Wasnt Whitney Houston’s moving rendition of The Anthem at the SB pre-recorded too?

It’s not that big of a deal.

[It's me]

The first of a long list of “fakes” in this administration......

[ColoCdn]

Gotta love it.

The Milli Vanilli Administration! How do you know he’s lip-synching? His mouth is moving. It sounds great, but you’ve got the sneaking suspicion that it’s not real.

The 30’s had the TVA, we’ve got the MVA.

[angelcindy]

oh but the military band could play in the cold..and all marching bands....but not these performers..???

[HIDEK6]

I'm not critical of the musicians. They were placed in a no win situation.

I criticize the event organizers, your federal government, who didn't consider that cold weather on January 20th might be a possibility and didn't arrange to have the performance area heated.

[PLD]

Who cares!!Come up with his birth certificate and that will be news..

[TChris]

Whoopdie doo. This is done all the time.

As long as it was the same musicians who actually recorded the music, then there's no foul.

Would you rather have a great-sounding performance that was recorded, or a "legit" performance in the cold with out-of-tune instruments?

Milli Vanilli this is not.

[reagan_fanatic]

They would have nailed Bush to the wall for something like this.

[Mr. K]

This is oly a big deal to idiots.

You cannot leave it to chance when millions of people are watching.

Even the superbowl half-time show is pre-recorded.

And that poor girl on stage in the Olympic opening in China was put through heck because of morons.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Perhaps, Zero’s Milli Vanilli moment?....

[mass55th]

Everything around and about Obama is fake.

[ElayneJ]

The temperature was not below zero. But that aside, I don’t see anything wrong with recorded music - but to pretend that it’s live is just tacky. No one would have cared if they had been unfront about the weather problem - this is inappropriate. obama’s team is not off to a good start.

[CharlesWayneCT]

I was at Dollywood before christmas, and watched their Appalachian band (string quartet) struggle through live performances in 25-degree weather. They did it though, live, without breaking their instruments or their fingers.

[Bob]

Their performance immediately preceded Mr Obama's swearing-in, in which he uncharacteristically managed to mangle the oath of office.

Unless the oath was on a teleprompter, I wouldn't use the word uncharacteristically to describe the mangling. While he reads speeches on teleprompters very well, his extemporaneous speaking skills don't match his reading skills. (And, no, I don't consider memorized sound bites delivered in scheduled debates to be extemporaneous speaking.)

[HighlyOpinionated]

Fake Music for a Fake President. Appropriate.

[Jackknife]