Oh, That’s Nice, CNN
(story broken by Matt Drudge)
Vice Pres. Dick Cheney on Monday gave a speech defending the White House’s position on the war in Iraq. Great speech (Hat tip Political Teen: short video). During CNN’s live broadcast of the speech, 3-4 large X’s flashed across the Vice-President’s face.
CNN MARKS CHENEY: NETWORK FLASHES ‘X’ OVER VP’S FACE DURING LIVE SPEECH
**Exclusive**
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!
The ‘X’ over Cheney’s face appeared each time less than a second, creating an odd subliminal effect.
As this DRUDGE REPORT screen capture reveals, while one ‘X’ flashed over Cheney’s face CNN ran a headline at the bottom of its screen: “CHENEY: I DO NOT BELIEVE IT IS WRONG TO CRITICIZE.”
One top White House source expressed concern about what was aired over CNN.
“Is someone in Atlanta trying to tell us something?”
A CNN spokesman did not return repeated calls late Monday night.
Is this the same CNN who in 2004 uploaded a photo of the campaigning Pres. Bush with a label something like, “dumbass.jpg”? Thanks to the blogosphere and screen captures, CNN quickly re-uploaded the picture under a more suitable title with a brief disclaimer that an intern “having fun” uploaded it under that name. Right.
No media bias?
Cross-posted at Amy’s Blog
November 21st, 2005 at 9:16 pm
Communist News Network At It Again
Let’s just remember that in the recent past we’ve had the zoomed in note for a bathroom break scandal, the Condi “satan eyes” scandal, and all the lies being spewed about the Plame affair and the WMD’s. Does anyone reall…
November 21st, 2005 at 10:05 pm
CNN Puts Out Subliminal Messages
Cross-posted from Right on the Right:
Drudge caught this, and it’s rather startling.
CNN PUTS X OVER CHENEY’S FACE DURING HIS SPEECH, DRUDGE CATCHES IT
XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX MON NOV 21, 2005 21:25:35 ET XXXXX
CNN MARKS CHENEY: NE…
November 21st, 2005 at 10:22 pm
CNN: Masterful Blunderers, or Blatantly Biased?
While Vice President Dick Cheney was delivering a speech about the Iraq War, CNN flashed a giant “X” across the screen.
… This isn’t my area of expertise, so I’m not going to weigh in on whether this was a not-so-subtle political jab or just a b…
November 21st, 2005 at 10:25 pm
CNN Adds Effects to Cheney Speech
More than likely someone was trying to be funny and thought it was displayed quickly enough that no one would notice. Too bad for them there is an alternative media now.
November 21st, 2005 at 10:30 pm
This is clearly a mistake that could have happened when ANY Republican was speaking about the Iraq War…
November 21st, 2005 at 11:15 pm
Cheney Lashes Out at Bush’s Iraq Critics
Vice President Dick Cheney on Monday said he strongly disagrees with a battle-tested congressman who
November 21st, 2005 at 11:18 pm
CNN: Communist News Network
Once again CNN is showing its true colors. Today it showed an X over VP Cheney’s face with the words “CHENEY: I DO NOT BELIEVE IT IS WRONG TO CRITICIZE” at the bottom of the screen.
November 22nd, 2005 at 6:10 am
Oh, That’s Nice, CNN
[Source: California Conservative] quoted: 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 flashe…
November 22nd, 2005 at 7:05 am
An “X”? Obviously the work of sinister atheist liberal forces. Why couldn’t they have used a “G” (as in God) or a “B” as in Big Daddy?
Cheney & The X-Files
November 22nd, 2005 at 7:12 am
CNN X’s Out Cheney
Matt Drudge caught CNN playing games with the above picture of the vice president. Drudge both on Fox News and on his Web site said it was some sort of subliminal message.
Just what we need: Another stupid controversy.
CNN’s official response is i…
November 22nd, 2005 at 10:47 am
Lefty Glitches
This is for all those who still believe that american mainstream media are a model of unbiased journalism (and not a bunch of liberals). Take a look in this video (via The Political Teen) at the technical error the CNN ran into while broadcasting a s…
November 22nd, 2005 at 11:21 am
Chronicles of the fair and balanced . . .
Evidence of CNN liberals run amok, or technical glitch? As all things, it depends on what you want it to be. The amount of blog chatter is proof enough of the point: See Drudge, Suitably Flip, Malkin, California Conservative. Or,
November 28th, 2005 at 2:49 pm
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