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CNN MARKS CHENEY: NETWORK FLASHES 'X' OVER VP'S FACE DURING LIVE SPEECH
Drudge Report ^ | November 21, 2005

Posted on 11/21/2005 6:27:44 PM PST by RWR8189

Edited on 11/21/2005 6:40:53 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

 
CNN MARKS CHENEY: NETWORK FLASHES 'X' OVER VP'S FACE DURING LIVE SPEECH

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX MON NOV 21, 2005 21:25:35 ET XXXXX

CNN MARKS CHENEY: NETWORK FLASHES 'X' OVER VP'S FACE DURING LIVE SPEECH

**Exclusive**

At 11:04:45 AM ET Monday CNN was airing Vice President Dick Cheney's speech live from the American Enterprise Institute in Washington -- when a large black 'X' repeatedly flashed over the vice president's face!

The 'X' over Cheney's face appeared each time less than a second, creating an odd subliminal effect.

As this DRUDGE REPORT screen capture reveals, while one 'X' flashed over Cheney's face CNN ran a headline at the bottom of its screen: "CHENEY: I DO NOT BELIEVE IT IS WRONG TO CRITICIZE."

One top White House source expressed concern about what was aired over CNN.

"Is someone in Atlanta trying to tell us something?"

A CNN spokesman did not return repeated calls late Monday night.

Developing...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: antiwar; biasedcnn; cheney; cheneyx; cnn; crazydummies; democrats; drudge; drudgewardspiral; iraq; malcolmx; msm; muchadoaboutnothing; tinfoiltime; x
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To: prouddvldog

More childishness from the "hate Bush crowd". I worked a tradeshow earlier this year (left-coast liberal interior designer attendees) designer entered my booth and said he would feel better if he could have worn his "F... Bush" t-shirt, but was afraid of being disallowed entry to the show.


181 posted on 11/21/2005 7:12:16 PM PST by antceecee
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To: ianschwartz

Here is the FR post about the photo I mentioned.

Look at the URL of the photo (it says A$$hole)


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1270469/posts


182 posted on 11/21/2005 7:12:52 PM PST by msnimje (Bob Woodward is the Grinch who stole Fitzmas.....................................................)
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To: FairOpinion

CNN is not broadcast over the air - it is cable, so the FCC does not have jurisdiction.


183 posted on 11/21/2005 7:13:06 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: jwalsh07; woofer2425

I'll take your word(s) for it. I have no idea what a "switcher" even is.


184 posted on 11/21/2005 7:13:10 PM PST by frankjr
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To: SteveMcKing
I'm surprised that CNN didn't just flash a circle with cross-hairs over the VP's face ... I'm sure that is what they really would liked to have done. But the Secret Service might have something to say about that so the "X" was substituted.
185 posted on 11/21/2005 7:13:34 PM PST by MaDeuce (Do it to them, before they do it to you!)
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To: mwyounce

I tried to isolate what was written in black with a couple of my photo programs, but am unable to decipher what it says. But, there is definitely some writing below the X.


186 posted on 11/21/2005 7:13:36 PM PST by Road Warrior ‘04 (Kill 'em til they're dead! Then, kill 'em again!)
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To: roses of sharon

Excellent comments.

That is why I don't have a TV and *very* rarely watch movies. Heck, I don't even know who the people are on the covers of the mags at the grocery store. Most of them look like they've had a lot of bad plastic surgery, though.


187 posted on 11/21/2005 7:13:39 PM PST by little jeremiah
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To: SmoothTalker

"It probably was an honest mistake. They aren't stupid enough to do this on purpose."

CNN and 'honest' should never be used in the same sentence. No wonder President Bush's polls have taken a dive(other than that many of the polls are fixed)!
YET ANOTHER LSM network bites the dust! WAY TO GO DRUDGE!!


188 posted on 11/21/2005 7:13:40 PM PST by penelopesire
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To: roses of sharon

I've always wished we had a running thread on all these instances of glitches and media bias. Just one place were you could go and see example after example of this crap.


189 posted on 11/21/2005 7:13:54 PM PST by cwb (Liberalism is the opiate of the *asses)
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To: RWR8189

My guess (and it is just a guess) is that they had a focus group going on the speech and when one person indicated a negative reaction the video display of their input was accidently overlayed on the broadcast instead of kept 'in house'.


190 posted on 11/21/2005 7:14:13 PM PST by Grig
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To: dynachrome

Yeah. Happens all the time.


191 posted on 11/21/2005 7:14:39 PM PST by Just Lori (End the leftist occupation of America!)
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To: impatient
inserted another X to see if the same strange distortion around the contrast happened

Don't worry. Buckhead already busted ya.

192 posted on 11/21/2005 7:14:45 PM PST by Squeako (ACLU: "Only Christians, Boy Scouts and War Memorials are too vile to defend.")
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To: msnimje

HA! HA! HA! That's CNN PROFESSIONALS at work!


193 posted on 11/21/2005 7:14:54 PM PST by GVnana
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To: martin_fierro; SamAdams76

he wants to show that he has enough testosterone to sport a soul patch....


194 posted on 11/21/2005 7:15:01 PM PST by ErnBatavia (Frist would be a great Majority Leader if he had 65 seats..make that 75)
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To: RWR8189

Leahy says, payback is a mutha f....


195 posted on 11/21/2005 7:15:04 PM PST by texianyankee
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To: RWR8189

If someone knows how to complain to the FCC for subliminal messaging violations, let us know. We should get the FCC on CNN.


196 posted on 11/21/2005 7:15:07 PM PST by Cableguy
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To: SE Mom
But it was really stupid of them not to answer Drudge's calls today...

That is the only reason we're all talking about it. They should have just returned his calls, showed him what it was and been done with it.

Stuff like this happens all the time with live TV. I mean, how many times have you seen really, really weird stuff flash past...and you ask the people around you "did you see that?" Janet Jackson springs to mind, actually.

Technology is just to the place that we are able to go back and check it. You wouldn't believe what you can find in old tv shows and movies that accidentally got edited in because it's basically imperceptible to the human eye.

Also, while product placement does work, studies have shown over and over that for the most part, subliminal advertising doesn't work. So, it may have been some kind of jokester, I bet it was only a mistake.

Which is really too bad. I wish the press was this easy to catch at their game. Unfortunately, they are too stupid to even realize they have an agenda, let alone plan it into the subliminal category.

197 posted on 11/21/2005 7:15:22 PM PST by pollyannaish
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If the first graders that run the Chicken Noodle Network doodle, but nobody is watching, did they really doodle???


198 posted on 11/21/2005 7:15:37 PM PST by Babu (Guv-mint: noun, an archaic form of mint that doesn't taste good and isn't good for you either.)
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To: RWR8189
Probably just an honest mistake...

FOFL!!! ... did you say that with a straight face???

As for CNN ... well ... at least they didn't use a sniper target like CBS used with the President

199 posted on 11/21/2005 7:15:54 PM PST by Mo1 (Message to Democrats .... We do not surrender and run from a fight !!)
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To: SmoothTalker
It probably was an honest mistake. They aren't stupid enough to do this on purpose.

How about . . .they are 'angry' enough; hateful enough. . .desperate enough. . .despicable enough. . .arrogant enough. . .disgusting enough. . .unconscienable enough. . .and if that is not enough. . .I'm sure we could add more here.

Stutpid is such a small part of this ugly picture. . .

200 posted on 11/21/2005 7:16:11 PM PST by cricket (No Freedom - No Peace)
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