Posted on 11/24/2005 6:59:53 AM PST by Doctor Raoul
CNN'a story neglects to say that it could have been done manually, but that they had ruled that out somehow. I once was a control room operator for a live TV production and though it was over 30 years ago, I remember how I could manually reproduce what was done to Cheney. One way you switch between video sources to select the one to go out over the air to move the "wiper". It looks like a T-handled lever, like an automatic transmission lever on your car's console. Except, instead of being one handle, it's split down the middle into two separate components. The handles are wired to act oppositely. One handle adds signal as you move to the top, the other removes it. If you grab both at the same time and move them together, one video input fades out and one comes in. If you held the handle with the Cheney video at full strength and rapidly moved the other handle to the other end of it's travel and back, you'd get what was seen. It's only a few inches of travel. Secondly, you could switch without using the wiper. There are switches where you simply go from one video input to another without using any "effect" controlled by the wiper. Those switches are "make before break" so there's no interruption of signal. Tap one of those so that it makes contact but does not latch and disconnect the first video source and you'll get that same effect, superimposed video. Believe me, it is easily possible to mannually do what was done to Cheney.
What will they think of next, since nothing else has worked to date?
What I really find disturbing is the content of this taped complaint call to CNN posted on another thread yesterday. I cannot believe the rude behavior of the CNN staffer. These people are more severely disturbed than I imagined:
Maybe CNN should get their story straight. CNN Caught Off-Guard; Recording Proves Damaging 'X' Over Vice President's Face was Intentional Says Team Hollywood Hollywood http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=57102
http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=57102
CNN Employee On Tape: Cheney "X" Is "Freedom of Speech" - "Tell Bush And Cheney To Stop Lying" You can listen to the tape here.
http://www.dailypundit.com/graphics/cnncall.wav
http://www.dailypundit.com/newarchives/006044.php#006044
7 posted on 11/23/2005 2:05:56 AM PST by Rain-maker [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]
My assumption since Drudge first posted the freeze frame on his web site has been that a technician in the control room did it.
Either he did it on his own hook, or someone ordered him to.
What is certain is that a quick investigation could narrow it down to the perpetrator with no trouble at all. Also, that the bosses at CNN could not possibly doubt for a minute what happened.
What is evident from that is that whether or not they gave this technician orders to do it, they strongly approve of what he did, and they intend to cover up for him.
After all, the whole culture at CNN involves forwarding the left wing agenda by whatever means necessary. To permit this technician, a hero in their eyes, to be punished would be as good as to admit that what they themselves do every day is wrong.
Unthinkable.
Aye, there's the key unexplained pieces of evidence. In almost 20 years of operation this is the VERY FIRST time this has happened on CNN - and it's not reported to have happened on any other network, either. So the timing is awfully convenient for, say, a liberal Democrat.
The other half of that insufficiently explained anomaly is why a transition in the middle of the speech?
Here's the problem that CNN has - IF we are to believe that the problem was caused by a "glitch" in the switcher, what caused the "crawl" to appear below the televised picture of the Vice-President? A "switcher glitch" doesn't explain either action.
CNN is condoning the actions of one or more people in the control room and signaled that this was acceptable behavior when they immediately excused it as a "glitch". Despite the claim that they are conducting an "investigation", don't expect anything substantive to come out of it that discovers who at CNN actually did it.
CNN has just spit on the Vice-President of the United States and they're going to get away with it.
Was this a one-time "X", or did it repeat several times?
(First impression I got from the reports was that the "X" was repeated several times.)
From the audio of the recorded call, I have CNN's new motto:
"If you don't like it, don't watch."
Deal.
Black x appeared a couple times, I think the white flash occurred once.
Hey! They got the jackarse fired! What else could you want? (Of course, now he's on OUR dime in the unemployment line......unintended consequences....
But, but, but, .... If it was an accident, why would he be fired?
Sent this thread to Media Research Center at www.mrc.org for their background.
That tape is an admission of guilt. Frightening that a network could do this. This guy didn't get the talking points.
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
Yes, You're right. My Father was an engineer at WCMH TV4 for something like 35 years till he retired from there. I've been in the control room many times in my younger years and I know they did that on purpose.
These sorts of events, the bullseye on Bush, the X on Cheney, the choices of unflattering pictures when reporting on conservative personalities, the Rice "doctored" photo.....these sorts of treatments do not happent to Demoncrats or the other assorted flotsam and wastes of human skin that the MSM loves, admires and supports.
CNN lies in all its incarnations. It is an evil entity that exists for the usual demonic Leftist purposes.
They did an experient on FOX and Friends yesterday morning using Brian Kilmeade as the guenny pig. They showed how it was done
It must be common.
Actually they do watch TV and get their news from such credible sources as Leno, Letterman, Colbert, John 'what's his name'... All intellects for sure!
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