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."
CNN claims it was a technical error.
What would be the purpose of this X, if there was one?
No, we don't learn much from the Communist News Network
The nation has been poisoned by the radical left. This kind'a sh_t has to be addressed!
Is that what it says?
I think that they should be the official network of Fidel Castro.
How can they think that this would help them?
That sounds a lot like the wardrobe malfunction excuse.
One lady emailed and asked, "If a black X appeared over Hillary's face when she was on Fox News, what would happen to Fox?" (rephrased because I can't remember exactly).
| CNN MARKS CHENEY: NETWORK FLASHES 'X' OVER VP'S FACE DURING LIVE SPEECH |
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| Posted by RWR8189 On News/Activism 11/21/2005 8:27:44 PM CST · 586 replies · 29,701+ views Drudge Report ^ | November 21, 2005 |
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Bwhahahahaha!
It is only a matter of time before nutcases start to blame Karl Rove :D
I wonder if they've pulled this stunt before and this is just the first time they've been caught?
Hooray!!!!!
The MSM would go to wall to wall coverage.
No, they are ALWAYS in campaign mode. Unfortunately, WE aren't in campaign mode and that's a problem for us.
No... at least I don't think so. Remember when THAT appeared on a Bush clip a few years ago?!
CNN longs for the day before the new media.
Drudge hasn't been kind to this administration lately. But I think it's great that he pointed this out.
I also think that it helps the right with leftist nutcases if Drudge (who is seen as a conservative) doesn't come out and say that there's liberal bias.
Sort of like when John Wilkes Booth pointed his gun at Lincoln's head and accidentally pulled the trigger.
By the way, why aren't the dems asking when we're going to get the troops out of Bosnia? I think it's a quagmire.
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