just FYI...from tvnewser:
""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!," Drudge explains.
Responding to TVNewser's request for comment this evening, a CNN spokesperson explained: "This was a technolgical malfunction, not an issue of operator error. A portion of the switcher experienced a momentary glitch."
On Hannity & Colmes, for less than a 15th of a second it was almost subliminal howerver, when u slow down the tape u see dick cheney's face with a large X on it "I think they've gotta give an explanation," IF ITS just a random mistake, a video glitch, i dont know how that happens i think in fairness, give them an opp to explain it Sean Hannity mentioned the RATS and MemoGate..."
http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/cnn/_28496.asp
Mary Mapes will find a way to blame it on FreeRepublic.
LOL, switchers do not assemble block X's centered on Cheneys face from random noise. CNN thinks we are all idiots. They are only partially right, their viewers are largely idiots.
I'm not buying TVNewser's explaination. I used to do television production in the Air Force for Armed Forces Television many years ago. Nothing gets on the air unless it is put up some where as a video source and the video switcher selects it and puts it in the program bank. It's possible the "X" could have made it into the video signal chain somewhere down the line from the switcher...but what are they doing with a large black "X" available as a video source and it appears to be positioned just so as to do a good job obstructing the VP's image. Sorry I think either someone was screwing around or put the "X" on the air on purpose.