(via Drudge’s Blog)

Can’t CNN at least pretend to disguise their hatred? I mean…. even just a little?

One side note to the story: whoever caught the “X” screenshot during the Vice President’s appearance missed a couple of other subliminable messages that CNN used during the broadcast.

There was the Family Feud-style X with accompanying buzzer sound during one of Cheney’s remarks:

There was a chickenhawk reference:

A welcome distraction for the male demographic:

Where’s the beef?:

And the inexplicable:

Seems to me that CNN has a hell of a lot to answer for.

UPDATE:

Great response from the folks at Stop the ACLU:

Also see: GOP and the City

GLITCH:

Junkyard Blog and Michelle Malkin are both convinced it was just a glitch. Maybe it was, but any fun at CNN’s expense is still worth poking. False but accurate, you know. Thanks either way, CNN!

Posted by Preston Taylor Holmes @ 9:01 am
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1. 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…

   Trackback by Stop The ACLU — Tuesday, November 22, 2005 9:57 am | permalink

   
   

2. CNN Cheney

   For those that missed it, CNN flashed a black “X” over Vice President Dick CheneyÂ’s face several times yesterday during a live speech. If it had happened once then that is a accident, but the fact that it happened numerous times does raise some ques…

   Trackback by Swap Blog — Tuesday, November 22, 2005 10:14 am | permalink

   
   

3. X Blocks O

   Peter Marshall: In ancient times, after a battle, the losers would present the winners with a handful of grass. What did this symbolize?
   VP Dick Cheney: The losers were Democrats!
   -quote from Hollywood Squares

   Trackback by Gop and the City — Tuesday, November 22, 2005 10:42 am | permalink

   
   

4. Cheney Lashes Out at Bush’s Iraq Critics

   Vice President Dick Cheney on Monday said he strongly disagrees with a battle-tested congressman who

   Trackback by Unpartisan.com Political News and Blog Aggregator — Tuesday, November 22, 2005 10:46 am | permalink

   
   

5. CNN’S X-MEN…UPDATE: IT WAS JUST A GLITCH…OR NOT?

   ***see updates*** Ok, just got home and have been deluged with e-mails asking for comment and more info on the Drudge Report’s big story tonight about CNN’s X-tra special treatment of Vice President Cheney. It’s seemingly reminiscent of the MSM…

   Trackback by Michelle Malkin — Tuesday, November 22, 2005 11:00 am | permalink

   
   

6. CNN Vigorously Defends Cheney X-ing

   fter angry cries from bloggers and conservative pundits over a large, superimposed X broadcast over the face of Vice President Dick Cheney, CNN has issued a statement explaining that far from an underhanded attack……

   Trackback by Point Five — Tuesday, November 22, 2005 11:09 am | permalink

   
   

7. Dick Cheney: X-Man?

   I’m not one to defend CNN very often, but this is a glitch. I’ve been on both sides of the camera and switcher during live news broadcasts, and I’ve seen glitches come and go. They happen all the time. I…

   Trackback by JunkYardBlog — Tuesday, November 22, 2005 11:33 am | permalink

   
   

8. THE X-FACTOR CONTINUES

   Well, holy cow!

   See what you miss when you work!

   It seems that during CNN’s coverage of the Cheney press conference a big X was placed over Cheney’s head.

   Trackback by File it Under — Tuesday, November 22, 2005 7:55 pm | permalink

   
   

9. The “X” Factor - the saga continues

   As we discussed yesterday, (link at bottom of post) CNN was said to be looking into why a large black “X” appeared over the face of Vice President Dick Cheney as he gave a speech on Monday night on CNN. Right wing bloggers were quick to accuse CNN of…

   Trackback by Running Scared — Wednesday, November 23, 2005 8:25 am | permalink

   
   

:: Comments ::

1. Great Clara Peller’s Ghost! That was brilliant.

   comment by Cranky — Tuesday, November 22, 2005 @ 10:11 am

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2. Seriously Preston.

   Survey Sez! Or the ghost of Richard Dawson’s Rolex.

   comment by Smantix — Tuesday, November 22, 2005 @ 10:51 am

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3. I think the “inexplicable” was catering to the gay over-50-years-old male demographic.

   comment by Feisty — Tuesday, November 22, 2005 @ 10:53 am

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4. That would explain Anderson Cooper.

   comment by Smantix — Tuesday, November 22, 2005 @ 11:49 am

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5. Well gee, I guess you don’t get the benefit of the doubt when your president had to resign after lying about American GIs targeting journalists in Iraq

   comment by jeff — Tuesday, November 22, 2005 @ 12:42 pm

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