Posted on 11/22/2005 5:56:28 PM PST by ianschwartz
There's been a lot of questions about the 'X' appearing over Vice President Cheney during a live speech on CNN yesterday... Was it intentional? Was it a glitch? I could see it being a glitch, but the way CNN has responded to it, they don't seem all that concerned about it.
Still, it is interesting to note that everything being alleged by Drudge or others about the intent of the 'X' sounds quite similar to what was being said by CNN during the 2000 campaign where 'RATS' appeared on screen for a fraction of a second in a Republican National Committee ad attacking Al Gore prescription drug plan. CNN wasted no time to attack the Bush campaign after they "concluded" the word 'RATS' was flashed intentionally and maliciously:
VIDEO HERE: http://www.blogsforbush.com/mt/archives/006024.html
It's not the same thing at all.
There IS no other way to spell democrat without putting in the Rat.
CNN most definitely did NOT need to put an X in front the vice president's face. Repeatedly.
The "rats" clip you are referring to was during the word "bureaucrats" scrolling across the screen.
Totally different. Do some friggin' research before posting a thread... Jeez.
Can we get Drudge to quit with the popups so that someone will listen to him again?
CXN was merely showing their call letters
Aren't they proud to be called "rats"?
Oh, I'll bet they wish they'd come up with that excuse!
It would have almost been plausible.
BTW, Ollie North is on FNC right now.
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CNN awarded Vice President Al Gore six percent more of the TV screen when both he and George W. Bush were shown on a split-screen during Tuesday night’s debate, the New York Post’s Richard Johnson revealed. The other networks, he added, split their screens into equal halves.-PJIn an October 6 story noted by MRC Communications Director Liz Swasey, "Gore’s the Winner Any Way TV Ted Slices It," Johnson disclosed that Republicans "suspect CNN’s manipulation of the pooled camera feeds was done to help Gore." Here’s an excerpt from Johnson’s story:
Brian Propp, a former TV-station engineer who watched the debate on CNN International, noticed the inequity.
"Its impact was to give Gore a more commanding presence on the screen, and Bush a visually reduced impact," Propp said in an e-mail to Bush headquarters after he measured each side of the split screen with graph paper.
The split-screen scandal comes after The New York Times attacked the Republicans in a front-page story for showing the word "rats" for a fraction of a second in a health-care ad slamming bureaucrats.
"They were all upset about a tenth of a second of a subliminal ‘rats,’ but they have no problem with 90 minutes of George W. Bush being diminished," one Republican scoffed.
END Excerpt
To read the entire story, go to http://nypostonline.com/news/12429.htm
Last night and today the Fox News Channel has been illustrating the difference in screen size by showing a still shot from CNN’s debate coverage.
The other was a news (supposedly) program. Hardly the same!
Whoops I meant to copy/paste the title from the website .. sorry all.
It was about exposing the hypocrisy on the part of CNN. My apologies.
http://archives.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/09/12/bush.ad/
Good one.
I'd forgotten about that!
CNN news is the same as a paid political ad, right?
No way is it the same. The rats thing was picking at style and making a stupid accusation. The X is a layered effect. One was intentional, the other was supposedly an accident. I plan on grilling my husband about the specifics whenever I get a chance. He would know whether the accident claim is valid or not. But I know enough to say that it is not the same thing as the rats case at all. There was nothing subliminal. RATS was the end of the word democrats. Though I must that the Dems for pointing it out to me. I've switched from Dems to 'rats ever since.
CNN has gone totally over the edge recently.
You can see the desperation in the way they are reporting everything (the same desperation Libs show when they cannot win an argument.)
On Blitz's show on Sunday, Democrat Sen. Bob Kerry starting saying that he saw all the intelligence Bush saw about the war and he was not exagerating anything. Blitz looked ready to totally lose his mind and they suddenly called the interview over and went to commercial. Kerry won't be on again.
Putting an X over the VP during an important speech totally crossed the line and CNN should be pulled off the air (when was the last time you saw an "accident" like this, Answer: Never. It was deliberate.)
Or they should have to rename themselves the Cable Tabloid Network.
Oh yeah, it was bureaucrats and not democrats. LOL! Oh well. The Democrats have been 'rats to me ever since that stupid "scandal."
It doesn't appear to be a glitch to me. I looked at that still photo and there appears to be small print under the 'X', also in black, but it's hard to make out because it's up against the black background of their news banner banner where it says "CHENEY: I DO NOT BELIEVE IT IS WRONG TO CRITICIZE"
An "X" crossing out a person's name or image has more of a connotation similar to the NBC "Snipers wanted" crawl that appeared beneath candidate George Bush's picture, IMO.
If you want to see a real and deliberate use of subliminal images in an election ad, check this out:
http://www.freedominion.ca/grig/attack.htm
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