Pay no attention to that ‘X’ over Cheney’s face

Considering how low Vice President Dick Cheney’s approval ratings are right now, CNN might have been able to justify the black “X” that flashed over Cheney’s face during its airing of his Monday speech at the American Enterprise Institute as merely reflecting public opinion. But CNN says it was a “technical malfunction” that “we obviously regret,” though many right-wing bloggers aren’t buying that.
Posted by Rhonda Holman

12 Comments

  1. Joe Williams
    Posted November 25, 2005 at 4:07 pm | Permalink

    That is not a technical glitch! LOL!

    CNN became boring a long time ago. I don’t watch it.

  2. Ed Friedemann
    Posted November 25, 2005 at 5:42 pm | Permalink

    We have reached a point where there is more truth in al-Quaida than the is in Bush.

  3. codie
    Posted November 25, 2005 at 7:57 pm | Permalink

    I try to avoid CNN too. But you need to keep an eye on the enemy and I can’t get Aljezera.Is the spelling correct ED?

  4. Joe Blow
    Posted November 25, 2005 at 10:12 pm | Permalink

    Since when is Drudge a “right-wing blog”? Earth to Holman!!

  5. Ed Friedemann
    Posted November 25, 2005 at 10:14 pm | Permalink

    Report: US didn’t want Al Qaeda members to testify in Padilla case

    Evidence linking Padilla to ‘dirty bomb’ plot may have been obtained under ‘harsh questioning.’

    By Tom Regan | csmonitor.com

    Several reasons have been given for the US government’s decision this week not to include charges of ties to Al Qaeda or the plans to build a ‘dirty bomb’ in its indictment against US citizen Jose Padilla. The New York Times Thursday quoted unnamed current and former government sources say one of those reasons may be that it was unwilling to allow the testimony of the two Al Qaeda members who linked Mr. Padilla to the above plot because the two men may have been ’subjected to harsh questioning.’The Qaeda members were Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, believed to be the mastermind of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and Abu Zubaydah, a top recruiter, who gave their accounts to American questioners in 2002 and 2003. The two continue to be held in secret prisons by the CIA, whose internal reviews have raised questions about their treatment and credibility, the officials said.http://csmonitor.com/2005/1125/dailyUpdate.html

  6. J M Walker
    Posted November 25, 2005 at 10:40 pm | Permalink

    Ed,Christian Science Monitor? Isn’t the name, like, at odds with itself?

    The real reason Cheney’s face was covered with a black X, is that it really wasn’t Cheney giving the speech. It was Al Gore. Really!

  7. Ed Friedemann
    Posted November 26, 2005 at 12:44 am | Permalink

    Walker

    That may be true. But it’s one of the few publications ready to take on tough subects. On that note, they can call themselves anything they like in my book.

  8. Ed Friedemann
    Posted November 26, 2005 at 12:49 am | Permalink

    Codie

    Here’s a link.

    http://english.aljazeera.net/HomePage

  9. XXX
    Posted November 26, 2005 at 1:49 am | Permalink

    I think Cheney’s face is an excellent place for a big black “X”.

  10. Falcone
    Posted November 26, 2005 at 1:53 am | Permalink

    Joe Blow,Since when is Drudge a right-wing blog? Come on! Believe it or not, like the media, not all blogs are liberal. Matt Drudge is decidedly right of center. If not right-wing, what do you think he is?

  11. Joe Blow
    Posted November 26, 2005 at 7:51 am | Permalink

    Falcone….Drudge may be a lot of things, a BLOG is NOT one of them. Earth to Falcone!!

  12. Falcone
    Posted November 26, 2005 at 10:48 am | Permalink

    Ooooohhhh! So Drudge is your idea of serious news. Joe Blow….put the drugs down.