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CNN SENIOR MANAGEMENT LAUNCHES INVESTIGATION INTO CHENEY "X" - Control Room Staffer Laughed
The Drudge Report ^ | 11-22-05 | Matt Drudge

Posted on 11/22/2005 6:11:06 AM PST by rabair

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX TUE NOV 22, 2005 08:25:48 ET XXXXX

**Exclusive**

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.

Developing...

(Excerpt) Read more at drudgereport.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cheney; cheneyx; cnn; cnnlies; cz; glitch; investigation; ritax; x
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To: NonLinear

I believe the text is "Transition begins que 5 frames of black"


241 posted on 11/22/2005 8:28:21 AM PST by TruthBeforeAll
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To: rabair

"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"

Sounds like a fair and open-minded investigation. LOL


242 posted on 11/22/2005 8:29:48 AM PST by Sam Hill
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To: oldenuff2no
My preference:

CXN
243 posted on 11/22/2005 8:29:55 AM PST by maggief
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To: Sunnyflorida
CG's just don't put out "X" by default. No point.

I suspected as much, but I don't have enough experience with them to say definitively. The way I remember it, the only thing that shows in preview is the text that's going to show up after the transition. I agree that someone was putting it up there deliberately, the question is, did that person intend for it to go to air?

244 posted on 11/22/2005 8:30:38 AM PST by SlowBoat407 (The best stuff happens just before the thread snaps.)
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To: HamiltonJay
This has been posted a number of times. The first line of black text was added to determine what the hidden text in the second line said:


245 posted on 11/22/2005 8:33:36 AM PST by conservative in nyc
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To: Patriot from Philly

LOL! I LOVED Nancy Drew also! You got everything right except Cheney is not a neocon......neocons are Jewish...it's a derrogative term for Jews who's families WERE leftists Communists, Marxists, Leninists, have seen the errors of their ways and now are conservative. Chene is not Jewish and he has ALWAYS been a conservatve.


246 posted on 11/22/2005 8:35:07 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience. T)
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To: conservative in nyc

Well that certainly seems to infer wrong button pushed by someone to me.


247 posted on 11/22/2005 8:35:24 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: tumblindice
while other Republicans are sitting-up, begging and `rolling over'

I'll bet you a week's pay the pubbie leadership are the ones that made Schmidt apologize for her slam on Murtha. I'm disgusted.

248 posted on 11/22/2005 8:39:53 AM PST by papertyger
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To: newzjunkey

249 posted on 11/22/2005 8:41:16 AM PST by Libertarian444
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To: Triple
My take is that it was deliberate - and the Lefty that did it thought nobody would catch him, and that it would be his own private little joke/protest.

You nailed it. Except I don't think they are concerned about getting caught, this is the MTV crowd running the show and they are acting out for their circle, they don't care what anybody else thinks.

250 posted on 11/22/2005 8:42:23 AM PST by oldbrowser (The U.S. Senate is a quagmire.)
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To: Ann Archy

Of course Nancy would have gotten in her red convertable and solved the mystery by now. And she wouldn't need the help of her boyfriend Ned.

Nancy Drew and the Mystery of the Fading X


251 posted on 11/22/2005 8:50:20 AM PST by Patriot from Philly
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To: Lazamataz
Cheney X

The man with the plan.

252 posted on 11/22/2005 8:51:25 AM PST by i.l.e. (Tagline - this space for sale....)
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To: johnny7
with additional text below it. Take a GOOD look.

That's what I was looking at. Trying to see if I could read it. I can't.

253 posted on 11/22/2005 8:51:50 AM PST by houeto (Mr. President, close our borders now!)
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To: SlowBoat407

Did you know that if you GOOGLE for the story, you cannot find it? At least I could not plug in the right search words to find it:

cnn x
cnn x cheney
cnn cheney
cnn cheney world net daily
cheney x
cheney world net daily
cheney drudge
cheney drudge x


254 posted on 11/22/2005 8:53:20 AM PST by Eagle of Liberty (11, 175, 77, 93 - In Memory Always)
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To: oldbrowser

Just like Mary Mapes and CBS thought that conservatives would be too stupid to catch on to their fraud.


255 posted on 11/22/2005 8:54:01 AM PST by texasmountainman (proud father of a U.S. Marine)
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To: dfwgator
Here's another "glitch":

BTW, does anybody remember the network screen shot Drudge had of the "sniper scope" over Bush? (I said at the time that was probably an accident. But these accidents sure seem to happen to the GOP side a lot.)

256 posted on 11/22/2005 8:56:33 AM PST by Sam Hill
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To: KeyLargo
"I xd out CNN from my tv remote a long time ago"

So have I
257 posted on 11/22/2005 8:57:56 AM PST by exdem2000
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To: dfwgator

258 posted on 11/22/2005 8:58:24 AM PST by Howlin ("Victory is not a strategy. " ``Jack Murtha 11/18/05)
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To: RandallFlagg

Where did that come from?


259 posted on 11/22/2005 8:59:42 AM PST by Howlin ("Victory is not a strategy. " ``Jack Murtha 11/18/05)
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To: Libertarian444

That is a great photo. Reminds me of my days in Hermosa Beach. Man, what a blast that was after two years in Ketchum (major cabin fever).

My daughter is getting a new Nano and I get the handmedown. I need to see what iTunes has on this.

"BW: Why did X choose the two-part harmony approach?

JD: Because two people are more fun than just one."

Says it all.


260 posted on 11/22/2005 9:01:50 AM PST by Sunnyflorida
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