A couple of hours ago I bought a subscription to the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and while they had me on hold, instead of playing music, they played Obama's speech to the AMA from a couple of hours ago:
URL: http://news.lalate.com/2009/06/15/obama-ama-youtube-and-text/
Quite aside from the merits of the speech (my takeaway from time, place and content is that it means O really is serious about there being public option, which is nice), it was *much* better than listening to the lo-fi music they usually supply. They left me on hold for 15 minutes, and I wasn't half as pissed as I normally would have been; the time passed, because if I had to listen to something, this counted reasonably interesting.
But I can't think of anything like this ever happening in my lifetime before. Piping political speeches into phones? At apolical venues? Wow.
Michael