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?
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