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Russia Hacking U.S.? C-SPAN Live Feed Briefly Taken Over By Russian Today Broadcast
International Business Times ^
| January 12, 2017
| AJ DELLINGER
Posted on 01/12/2017 1:25:57 PM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
In a strange moment of startling symmetry with the current state of American politics, C-SPAN—the public affairs network that regularly broadcasts proceedings of the United States House of Representatives and Senate—was interrupted by a broadcast of Russia Today.
The state-funded Russian news network briefly took over the online feed of C-SPAN1, which had been broadcasting a discussion in Congress regarding the Securities and Exchange Commission Regulatory Accountability Act.
As California Democrat Maxine Waters was speaking, the feed suddenly cut from the House floor to a broadcast of RT. The feed cut in with a commercial break before returning to the RT news desk, where an anchor spoke of a suicide bombing.
Multiple C-SPAN watchers made mention of the sudden change on Twitter, including Deadspin editor Timothy Burke, who captured the moment the C-SPAN feed switched to RT.
(Excerpt) Read more at ibtimes.com ...
TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: cspan; rt; russia; russianhacking
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They're everywhere! They probably just had enough of Maxine Waters.
To: rightwingintelligentsia
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posted on
01/12/2017 1:28:16 PM PST
by
Uncle Miltie
(Higher Taxes, Less Freedom, More Bureaucracy! What could possibly go wrong?)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
Russia put an end to Cimmunist propaganda...and now they’re exporting the service.
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posted on
01/12/2017 1:30:03 PM PST
by
Ouchthatonehurt
("When you're going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
I have had enough of her and Sheila Jackson Lee. Wonder who actually did as the Russian hacking is being pushed so hard. Could a US agency have that ability?
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posted on
01/12/2017 1:30:14 PM PST
by
nclaurel
To: rightwingintelligentsia
Oh yes, Russia had its expert hackers break into the C-SPAN feed showing a vital broadcast of a review of a new book on the life and times of Dee Dee Myers, for the purpose of patching a nefarious live stream of RT News and a story about the great history of the Red Army Air Force’ TU-95 Long Range Bomber, which will cause a massive increase in Trump support.
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posted on
01/12/2017 1:30:42 PM PST
by
Steely Tom
(Liberals think in propaganda)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
To: rightwingintelligentsia
Someone in some cable/satellite signal control room is having a good laugh over this...
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posted on
01/12/2017 1:32:53 PM PST
by
GraceG
(Only a fool works hard in an environment where hard work is not appreciated...)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
“As California Democrat Maxine Waters was speaking, the feed suddenly cut from the House floor....”
Maxine Waters? Then that was some sort of “poetic justice”.
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posted on
01/12/2017 1:33:53 PM PST
by
vladimir998
(Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
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posted on
01/12/2017 1:34:58 PM PST
by
Ciaphas Cain
(The choice to be stupid is not a conviction I am obligated to respect.)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
Yeah, and if RT didn’t do it, maybe the CIA did it.
Up is down or sideways. Obama’s “intelligence” agencies are partisan, and can’t be trusted.
To: rightwingintelligentsia
Is it getting hot in here?
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posted on
01/12/2017 1:38:43 PM PST
by
oblomov
(We have passed the point where "law," properly speaking, has any further application. - C. Thomas)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
More shenanigans by the left.
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posted on
01/12/2017 1:40:51 PM PST
by
dforest
To: rightwingintelligentsia
Life imitates SCTV
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posted on
01/12/2017 1:40:58 PM PST
by
dfwgator
To: nclaurel
I have had enough of her and Sheila Jackson Lee. Wonder who actually did as the Russian hacking is being pushed so hard. Could a US agency have that ability? You think....? BINGO!
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posted on
01/12/2017 1:42:01 PM PST
by
ExSES
(the "bottom-line")
To: rightwingintelligentsia
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posted on
01/12/2017 1:42:34 PM PST
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway - "Enjoy Yourself" ala Louis Prima)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
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posted on
01/12/2017 1:46:49 PM PST
by
60Gunner
(The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. - Plato)
To: Ciaphas Cain
“False flag operation?”
I agree.
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posted on
01/12/2017 1:54:13 PM PST
by
Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
(Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
Liar losers at CNN continue to lie. What's new? "News for Dopes"
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posted on
01/12/2017 2:00:24 PM PST
by
hal ogen
(First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
To: GraceG
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posted on
01/12/2017 2:10:16 PM PST
by
logi_cal869
(-cynicus-)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
Likely a technician errantly threw a switch somewhere.
Occam’s razor.
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