Posted on 11/22/2005 4:16:00 AM PST by saveliberty
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Well, this is quite a story on Drudge right now:
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!
I just got an e-mail from someone who says Drudge will be on Fox News at 9:45 p.m. to talk about it. I'm guessing CNN won't cover the story tonight.
UPDATE 9:50 p.m.: Drudge is on now (without a hat!)and says the X showed up each time for 1/15 of a second, so you couldn't see it unless you slowed down the tape. No one at CNN is talking to Drudge about it.
Alan Colmes: Do you think it was purposeful?
AC: Is it possible this only happened on your set?
Drudge: No, this has been confirmed.
AC: Do you think it's evidence of the liberal media?
Drudge: I don't know...I just find it rather alarming that this is being subliminally sent out on the airwaves.
UPDATE 10:01 p.m.: The Political Teen has video of the Cheney speech, slowed down for the X-effect.
UPDATE 11:42p.m.: Jeff Harrell has a full analysis and serious questions about the video linked above. He has written The Political Teen for clarification, but hasn't heard from him yet. More as soon as I hear it.
Right at the end of the segment, Alan Colmes read a statement from CNN, which I found at TV Newser but not at CNN.com.
Responding to TVNewser's request for comment this evening, a CNN spokesperson explained: "This was a technolgical malfunction, not an issue of operator error. A portion of the switcher experienced a momentary glitch."
Not much of an "official statement," as Colmes called it. Considering how suspect the X incident looks, I think we deserve just a little more than that-- especially those of us who remember this little incident. Bias? What bias?
UPDATE 12:09a.m.: Michelle Malkin gets an e-mail from someone with apparent technical knowledge who says, "It's possible it was a mistake. It isn't likely it was a mistake."
I'm thinking to myself... how the fu_k does Joe Blow know?! Knowing that most of their audience is made up of libs... they're 'gonna get the answer they want.
BUSH'S CHINA VISIT WAS A MISERABLE FAILURE!
Photos with Mary Mapes
This link does not have video of the actual broadcast, so don't use it as a reference. The "X" lasted only 3 frames, but the "X" on the video at this site smoothly fades in and out. It is "fake but accurate".
I hope everyone is not using the clip at this site as proof - the clip is bogus.
LOL!
And they get a treat after giving the "correct" answer
The article was written and linked or not by Mary Katharine Ham.
Techinical error?.. I think not..I have never seen them put an X on a picture before..so who programmed it in?
Do you just know the equipment, or were you able to process the image to read that? Share...
Nah. He or she got caught. That's a cardinal sin to the left.
Fox should bring her on to comment on this vicious, unfounded attack on CNN by those darn bloggers!
Not surprising coming from the network that admittedly covered for Saddam Hussein in exchange for access.
LOL!
This is the same liberal media that photoshopped Condi's eyes into looking demonic. This looks intentional to me, but I don't know anything really about tape editing.
I WAS surprised to overhear Paula Zahn on CNN yesterday (broadcast while I was in an airport) refer to the people who had killed some Iraqi's yesterday as "terrorists".
They'll probably dock her pay for not calling them insurgents.
And the rest of the CNN "broadcast" I heard stunk to high heaven, as usual. No wonder their ratings are in the toilet.
Bwhahahaha!
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