If I Were Writing a Movie Pt. 5

I would have written this:

Keith Ellison made history Thursday, becoming the first Muslim member of Congress and punctuating the occasion by taking a ceremonial oath with a Quran once owned by Thomas Jefferson.

"Look at that. That's something else," Ellison, D-Minn., said as officials from the Library of Congress showed him the two-volume Quran, which was published in London in 1764.

A few minutes later, Ellison took the ceremonial oath with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., at his side. So many of Ellison's family members attended the ceremony that it was done in two takes.

It's really Sorkin-esque, isn't it?

Comments

[Mark]

And you'd have to put in the part where Ellison had enough class to walk over and shake the hand of the man who criticized him for having the nerve to be both a Muslim and a congressman.

[eRobin]

You're right. I missed that part but it's where the W.G. Snuffy Walden soundtrack would figure prominently.