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Beyonce belts it at press conference  (Getty Images)

Shocker: Beyoncé Lip-Synched the National Anthem (Video)

This is a really important time for America. This is when we decide, as a country, what the past tense of lip-sync should be. Lip-sanc? Lip-synced? Lip-sang? Hyphen or no hyphen? These are the pressing issues we need to address, America, because how else will we talk about what we already knew, which is that Beyoncé did not sing live during the inauguration, and that also–in the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (as portrayed by Keenan Thompson on Saturday Night Live)–”I care why? Hashtag: Jay-Z is a lucky man.” Read More

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Barack Obama lip-syncing? (The Onion)

Did The Onion Predict Beyonce’s Lip-Syncing Saga? (Video)

Whether or not today’s rumors about Beyonce lip-syncing the national anthem yesterday are true or not, aren’t we missing the much larger point? If Beyonce wasn’t really using her microphone, what’s to say that President Obama didn’t lip-sync his entire inaugural address?

The problem with that premise–which would have been a fine morning-after joke–was that it had already been released as a satirical video from The Onion three days before the inauguration. Read More