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."
In these types of situations, nothing happens by "mistake.”
If one wants to believe that line (and I mean this in general and not personal), one becomes CNN’s inabler.
No, it's not surprising at all
Paula's ratings aren't doing so well, so perhaps she is taking desperate measures.
It didn't get there all by itself.
I'd love to be a fly on the wall at the CNN right now as they watch Fox cover this story.
Oh! Oh! Can I please get my "instructions" on flash cards????
</sarcasm>
I got it off Political Teen. I haven't tried seperating the layers myself. Hmm...I want to know what the tiny text on the very bottom says too. Going to try with my computer and one of these screen captures.
That was just a technical error on your part right?
Considering that it was a CNN broadcast, as many as two dozen people could have been exposed to this incident of MSM bias.
What they WOULDN'T forget... is a mob storming their offices.
“My nine month year old niece is more clever.”
You are correct. I gave CNN too much credit. I apologize.
I will be checking out www.rathergate.com later in the day
Polipundit has this thread
http://polipundit.com/index.php?p=11330
ROFL!
"Another perspective is that it's an ongoing love sonnet to Fidel Castro."
I didn't think about that. It works for me.
Mapes defense would be that it's not CNN's job to prove that they didn't intend to put the X on Cheney's face.
Ted became a Castro fan when he met him. And even though he's off (in oh so many ways), the tradition carries on. :-)
Now what could XCNN do? They had pulled all the "W" keys off their keyboards and they couldn't find the "666" key.
LOL! You are right.
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