After looking at this morning's news headlines, one might have thought Beyoncé was the musical equivalent of Lance Armstrong. The tabloids in New York reported that she lip-synced the national anthem at Barack Obama's inauguration, with the Post
A spokesman contradicted an earlier statement, saying that no one in the Marine Corps Band was in a position to know whether Beyoncé sang the national anthem live or not.
I'm hoping for a flurry of retractions. A Marine spokesperson said yesterday that she couldn't confirm or deny that Beyoncé wasn't lip-syncing, and pretty much every media outlet assumed that was an admission. On NBC Nightly News, Brian Williams said
A source tells Us Weekly that the singer was "advised" to lip-synch the National Anthem for the Inauguration on Monday.
A spokesman contradicted an earlier statement, saying that no one in the Marine Corps Band was in a position to know whether Beyoncé sang the national anthem live or not.
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