Tim Graham from January 20, 2005 on the MSM’s coverage of the “too lavish” inauguration:

Yes on the MSM, K-Lo. ABC’s Good Morning America really hit hard this morning on the notion that the Inauguration is too “lavish” for the times. Claire Shipman insisted on it as she interviewed the First Lady. When that was done, Peter Jennings chimed in: “Now, it’s a little risky, George Stephanopoulos, to contradict the First Lady, it is pretty lavish and it was pretty lavish last night.” Jennings also pressed the “lavish” issue on Rudy Giuliani.
PS: Just for added fun, GMA also interviewed Cindy Sheehan, who’s protesting the Inauguration because her son died in Iraq last April.

Economic times today are worse than they were in 2005, but will any of the MSM outlets bring up the tone (and expense) of the Obama parties? Not likely.