Blogging before/during Commencement

3:30PM - Obama's full speech is here. Thanks to everyone who followed and RT's my twitter feed.

2:15PM - I am live blogging the commencement exercises here on Twitter.

12:45PM - I'm twittering the day's events remotely. Jill Stanek (pro-life blogger), NewsCoaster (ND alum), ContraTorrentem (pro-life grassroots activist) are on-site and updating their twitter pages regularly. John Norton of OSV is in a press box where the commencement ceremony will be held.

12:00PM - Seriously, where do other people find their sources? This BeliefNet author claims "about 20% of the bishops have condemned Notre Dame for inviting the President". That statistic is simply weeks old. The current tally is double that. It's hard for me to give much weight to arguments when the author can't even get the numbers straight.

11:45AM - The mainstream media is giving this story lots of play, as you can see. It's becoming an opportunity for major outlets, such as the AP, to discuss the recent Gallup poll numbers, etc.

11:30AM - C-SPAN will be airing Obama's speech at 3PM EST online here.

11:00AM - Mining through the emails is taking some time, but Jill Stanek is updating frequently from on-site and Joe Lawler looks like the one sane voice at USA Today's live blog.

9:00AM - Woke up this morning to find DRUDGE's top headline to be "Vatican silent on Obama speech", linking to this horrible article by Amy Sullivan in Time. Damian Thomspon responds here.