CNN SENIOR MANAGEMENT LAUNCHES INVESTIGATION INTO CHENEY "X" - Control Room Staffer Laughed

The Drudge Report ^ | 11-22-05 | Matt Drudge

[rabair]

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CNN SENIOR MANAGEMENT LAUNCHES INVESTIGATION OF CHENEY 'X'; CONTROL ROOM STAFFER 'LAUGHED' WHEN X FLASHED

CNN management has launched an internal investigation into how a giant black 'X' mark appeared over Vice President Dick Cheney's face -- as he delivered a speech from Washington on Monday!

"We are taking this matter very, very seriously, and I can assure you no one at this network would ever deliberately place an 'X' over the vice president's face," a top CNN source, who asked not to be named at this time, said from New York.

A well-placed CNN insider claims a control room staffer "laughed" when the image appeared shortly after 11 am.

A careful review of the tape now shows a white colored 'X' was also transposed over Cheney's face during the speech, it appeared for less than 1/15 of a second, creating a startling flash effect.

CNN spokeswoman Laurie Goldberg emails: "We concluded this was a technological malfunction not an issue of operator error. A portion of the switcher experienced a momentary glitch. We obviously regret that it happened and are working on the equipment to ensure it is not repeated."

A rival network news director asks: "When has an 'X' ever aired on CNN before? Who had the graphic sitting in the key signal? Who generated the 'X'?"

The vice president himself is said to have brushed off the incident, a White House source said early Tuesday morning.

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[beachn4fun]

Ok. It sounds to me like it could be an error on someone's part, given what you said and the text at to bottome of the X.

Anyway, I don't watch CNN so I'm not going to waste what little brain cells I have left fretting over their screwup!

Thanks for the education (not that I have a clue....LOL)

[aft_lizard]

It took me a sec to see the "glitch". I am wondering did "Nigger" Innis take msnbc to task over that?

[FenderMan]

And of course they angled the shot so that to the right of the X is "ERP", which brings PERP to my mind, sublimital, not a mistake!

[cake_crumb]

"RATS!"

I have a screen capture of that on CD.

[USS Alaska]

On the tv in my den, the one I mostly watch, I've done the same thing. During my surfing, I skip over the channel number where CXX used to appear. I can only get to it by keying in the channel numbers, and that ain't happening, unless I feel very masochistic and don't want to use the whip on myself.

[Sunnyflorida]

Fox is far from perfect. Did you hear that canadian Catherine Herridge on the "american terrorist case." She was gleeful that the adminstration must stop sweeping up any american citizen and throw them in prision with oot due proocess. Send her back with Bill Hemmer (the biggest dope on Fox).

canadians are worse than the friggen frogs.

[USS Alaska]

Is there an X in Fo_?

[chemicalman]

Has CNN manipulated the evidence?

White out.

[Spiff]

[agincourt1415]

Baseball Hats and T-Shirts will be on sale shortly.

[hosepipe]

[ CNN SENIOR MANAGEMENT LAUNCHES INVESTIGATION INTO CHENEY "X" - Control Room Staffer Laughed ]

Well, Isn't that Special-(Lily Tomlin as Ernestine doing the Church Lady)

[Sunnyflorida]

CG's just don't put out "X" by default. No point. Somebody either as a prank or maliciously or accidentally hit the wrong button. My bet is prank or malicious. But I would not R/O accident if CNN brought a credible perp public.

[maggief]

Brought to you by the letter X ...

[HamiltonJay]

If it was intentional, I would assume it was some lefist moonbat operator(s)... CNN is already in enough trouble for being a liberal biased network, the last thing they need to do is have incidences like this further turn people to FOX.

Even if everyone on their staff would want to do this, I just don't see anyone with true power to order it, doing so.

I'd view this more as a "Hold My Beer" incident in the control room.

[HamiltonJay]

What is the text below the X??? You can't make it out in the black x picture, but there is clearly something in the White X picture.. anyone able to isolate it?

That text will probably show the true source of this.

[redtetrahedron]

"Microsoft payed CNN to put the X on VP Cheney to promote the launch of the new X-Box 360."

LOL!

[beatnick]

Before Condi Rice was well known one of the buffoons on CNN called her Congo Lisa Rice

[dfwgator]

Cheney X-The Revolution Will Be Televised.

[NonLinear]

It would be nice if someone had the ability to run an XOR function on the bottom of the picture with the black X operating on the one with the white X. The front text would cancel out, revealing the text that goes with the X.

My software doesn't do it.

[oldenuff2no]

The CNN-X network.
Think of it in the same way you would think of an X-wife. You just don't go there anymore.......