CNN Flashes 'X' Over VP'S Face During Live Speech
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ylexot
Super Genius
Another Drudge Flash...
http://www.drudgereport.com/flash4cnc.htm
http://www.drudgereport.com/flash4cnc.htm
Bustem' Down
Give Peas a Chance
Did anyone actually see it? I usually don't believe things like this on the internet because it's too easy to fake. Unless I get an eyewitness I sayylexot said:
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Toxick
Splat
ylexot said:
Typical.
The left is all about freedom of speech - so long as it's speech they agree with. They're all about tolerance, unless you dare oppose them. If you disagree with them, tolerance and freedom go out the effing window.
I'm wondering what would be happening today if, say, Fox News pulled this stunt on, say, Hillary Clinton or any Democrat.
My guess is that the collective shriek that would inevitably ensue would shatter every single piece of glass in the northern hemisphere into sand.
Having said that... it is kinda funny.
I'm pretty sure I've discussed this on here before....but the problem with the left is, they don't realize they're "left". They don't see themselves as the polar opposites of the "right" - they see themselves as the mainstream, even if polls don't agree. From their perspective, there's a large "middle" - where most people are - and there's those extremists on the right. There IS NO left. There's just "us" and the "extremists". And they're against "extremism" to the point where they don't believe extremists have an equal place at the table of public debate.Toxick said:
Kind of like having an open SOMD forum, so long as you don't get abusive, or try to advertise - then, freedom of speech is curtailed. They see themselves in the same situation - espousing the views of normal Americans, they have no problem stifling the views of "nutjobs" - conservatives. They don't have a problem with "liberal bias" on TV because to them, it's normal. They DON'T like Fox, because to them, it's like giving Nazis and skinheads their own network.
When elections don't go their way, they're incredulous. They're so convinced they match what the American voter thinks and feels, they're utterly convinced that the elections MUST have been stolen - because you can't lose an election where most of the voters are on your side already.
And they have something else which MOST conservatives don't possess - but some do. A moral attachment to issues. There is the wrong way, and there's my way. There are NOT three or four sides to an issue - there's the right way and everything is wrong - and therefore should never be entertained. (Admittedly, the religious right is often this way; but they don't comprise the majority of conservative thought). I heard a radio ad describing new legislation regarding credit unions. All I ever heard was that it WAS *WRONG*. No discussion. Just WRONG. Not "unwise, shortsighted, or impractical". Wrong. It's as though someone asked you, should you let your kids stay up past their beditme - or slaughter them with a butcher knife? Well, ONE is obviously wrong. And that's the point from which they argue.
I like, and generally prefer conservatives, partly because most of the ones I know don't have this - failing. They're pragmatists, not ideologues. It doesn't matter whether it's philosophically correct or not - it will, or won't work. Their attachment to issues doesn't have one right way - they'll entertain both sides IF one side can substantiate its validity.
To you require an eyewitness for every news story before you determine whether it's real or not?Bustem' Down said:
tirdun
staring into the abyss
Its a video overlay error on a live feed, not some "subliminal" message.
Underneath the giant X it reads "Transition begins after 5 frames of black"
The giant "X" is a key indicator to let the video guy know when to switch feeds. In other words, the transition from the current feed to the next feed should occur within the 5 frame delay to give someone else at CNN or a local feed time to do a wipe and break over to another line. In this case it got superimposed over the live feed, which happened to have the VP centered.
I... guess there could be some actual malice, although I fail to see how. The live feed is controlled by some board jockey at the White House (or capital, or wherever) or from CSPAN. So that board op, or one of the 3 or 4 others, could be purposfully screwing with the feed, but it really lacks any subtlety or any real connection to the guys in charge of CNN.
Underneath the giant X it reads "Transition begins after 5 frames of black"
The giant "X" is a key indicator to let the video guy know when to switch feeds. In other words, the transition from the current feed to the next feed should occur within the 5 frame delay to give someone else at CNN or a local feed time to do a wipe and break over to another line. In this case it got superimposed over the live feed, which happened to have the VP centered.
I... guess there could be some actual malice, although I fail to see how. The live feed is controlled by some board jockey at the White House (or capital, or wherever) or from CSPAN. So that board op, or one of the 3 or 4 others, could be purposfully screwing with the feed, but it really lacks any subtlety or any real connection to the guys in charge of CNN.
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tirdun said:
The real story is just how careful CNN had better be to avoid charges of bias, considering their "news" reporting and the decidedly anti-Republican rhetoric they spew.
If you've been a liar all your life, you can't be surprised when nobody believes you on the rare instance you DO tell the truth.
Nome sane?
Hope CNN gets ripped to shreds over this.
Larry Gude
Strung Out
That's pretty good!
...just no way, huh?
...just no way, huh?
Bustem' Down
Give Peas a Chance
No, but I never take my news from a sigle source, anyone who does is a fool. All media is biased, even the Drudge Report is biased right. The AP is biased anti-american, CNN is left, Fox will bias thier stories which ever way get's the most bang for thier buck.vraiblonde said:
Curious what makes you think this. All I ever see on Drudge is a bunch of links to other news sources, from AP to Yahoo to WashPost to whatever. I've never seen bias on his website.Bustem' Down said:
Bustem' Down
Give Peas a Chance
vraiblonde said:
Perhaps I should say it's biased SOMD. It's the one news source I have never seen ya'll have a problem with, and ya'll are right.
ylexot
Super Genius
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