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A CNN switchboard operator was fired over the holiday -- after the operator claimed the 'X' placed over Vice President's Dick Cheney's face was "free speech!" "We did it just to make a point. Tell them to stop lying, Bush and Cheney," the CNN operator said to a caller. "Bring our soldiers home." The caller initially phoned the network to complain about the all-news channel flashing an "X' over Cheney as he gave an address live from Washington. "Was it not freedom of speech? Yes or No?" the CNN operator explained. "If you don't like it, don't watch." Laurie Goldberg,...

Despite what was initially issued, I claimed that there was more to this CNN "X" Cheney thing. This now in from Drudge....

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CNN Caught Off-Guard; Recording Proves Damaging 'X' Over Vice President's Face was Intentional Says Team Hollywood 11/22/2005 4:30:00 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: National Desk Contact: Jane Redding of Team Hollywood Inc., 310-289-2143 SANTA MONICA, Calif., Nov. 22 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The following statement concerning CNN's airing of an 'X' over live video of Vice President Cheney was released today by Team Hollywood: Monday morning, Nov. 21, 2005, at 11:00 AM, as CNN aired Vice President Dick Cheney's speech live from the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, the cable network flashed onscreen, repeatedly, a large black 'X' over the Vice President's face,...

The following is an update from Daily Pundit who has chronicled the UNBELIEVABLE behavior of CNN employees in the wake of the X/Cheney incident. A switch board operator who berated callers to CNN telling them "Bush and Cheney should stop lying" and that "Putting the X over Cheney's face was freedom of speach" has been fired by CNN. This has been confirmed! Visit this link to hear the tape. I just got off the phone with Laurie Goldberg, Senior Vice President for Public Relations with CNN. Her statement confirms the authenticity of the tape recording and reveals the actions CNN...

 CNN's Bogus Answer About The Video Switcher. You Can Do What Was Done To Cheney Deliberately     CNN and the Cheney X: Response to Complaint call to CNN hints it may have been intetntional    Cheney's video really was an accident?  http://www.dailypundit.com/graphics/cnncall.wav        CNN Apologizes for X on Cheney's Face(CNN & the "X" over Cheney: keeping alive a lie) http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/weblog.phpCNN's Big Mistake Bill Quick at Daily Pundit has a report on CNN’s airing of an ‘X’ over live video of Vice President Cheney—including an audiotape that, if verified, is a real bombshell.  Michelle Malkin was all over this...

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...

This is a wave file of a complaint call in to CNN Headline News. The CNN person claims the black X over Vice President Dick Cheney's face was an example of "freedom of speech". The CNN person says someone at CNN was "making a statement", and that Bush is a liar.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - CNN apologized on Tuesday and offered a rare explanation from its control booth for a technical glitch many viewers failed to notice -- a large "X" the network flashed over Vice President Dick Cheney's face. The wayward graphic, which CNN said lasted for about one-seventh of a second, appeared during the network's live coverage of Cheney's speech on Monday addressing critics of the Bush administration's conduct of the war in Iraq. Word of the snafu quickly surfaced on the Internet, including still photos of the image posted by online columnist Matt Drudge, along with a story...

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...

The mainstream media's war against the administration has come out into the open -- they aren't even pretending to be fair and balanced anymore. They've even dropped the pretense that they care what effect their attacks have on either America as a country or America's forces in combat. Vice President Dick Cheney gave a speech before the American Enterprise Institute in Washington DC in which he took on charges that the administration lied to make its case for war with Iraq. It was no ordinary speech; Cheney came down hard on charges that the president lied, quoting John McCain's statement...

CNN Vigorously Defends Cheney X-ing After angry cries from bloggers and conservative pundits over a large, superimposed “X” broadcast over the face of Vice President Dick Cheney during his live speech from the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, CNN has issued a statement explaining that far from an underhanded prank or simple blunder, the ‘X’ marked CNN’s “enthusiastic ‘yes’ vote for the policies of the current administration.” CNN/U.S. president Jonathan Klein said through a spokesman, “The X has long been associated with everything desirable in popular culture. We’ve long believed Cheney to have the elusive ‘X-factor’ that is so sought-...

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,...

X Marks the Vice President by Mary Katharine Ham November 21, 2005 06:35 PM PST Scroll for updates...Well, this is quite a story on Drudge right now: At 11:04:45 AM ET Monday CNN was airing Vice President Dick Cheney's speech live from the American Enterprise Institute in Washington -- when a large black 'X' repeatedly flashed over the vice president's face! I just got an e-mail from someone who says Drudge will be on Fox News at 9:45 p.m. to talk about it. I'm guessing CNN won't cover the story tonight.UPDATE 9:50 p.m.: Drudge is on now (without a...

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX TUE NOV 22, 2005 11:54:02 ET XXXXX CNN: 'IT WAS A COMPUTER BUG' 'IT IS NOT SOMETHING WE CAN RE-CREATE TO SHOW YOU HOW IT HAPPENED' CNN on Tuesday morning hoped to explain how and why a black 'X' flashed over Vice President Dick Cheney's face during a live speech. The startling 'X' flashes over Cheney's face were first revealed by the DRUDGE REPORT. One top White House source expressed concern about what was aired: "Is someone in Atlanta trying to tell us something?" CNN transcript: CNN anchor/reporter Daryn Kagan: "I have come back into the...