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Yet ANOTHER example of the Bush Administration

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Anyone believe this crap? Like CNN would make a mistake of any sort -- this network of record was probably intimidated by the Bush Administration to "admit" what they did...

 

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NEW YORK - What began on David Letterman's "Late Show" as a comedy bit needling President Bush turned into a comedy of errors when CNN incorrectly reported that the White House had cried foul.

 

Then Letterman — apparently not getting CNN's message that it had made the mistake until he was well into his Tuesday broadcast — only heightened the confusion.

 

The whole thing started during a collection of video clips Letterman showed Monday under the label "George W. Bush Invigorates America's Youth."

 

One showed Bush at a March rally in Orlando, Fla., standing at a lectern with several listeners behind him — among them, a boy in his early teens who could barely stay awake. While Bush spoke, the young man yawned, twisted his head, checked his watch and generally seemed dead on his feet.

 

Tuesday morning, CNN attempted to lighten its news mood by running the segment, credited to CBS' "Late Show with David Letterman," on its "CNN Live Today."

 

But then CNN host Daryn Kagan added: "We're being told by the White House that the kid, as funny as he was, was edited into that video, which would explain why the people around him weren't really reacting."

 

Later, during CNN's "Live From ...," anchor Kyra Phillips reran the tape but cautioned viewers: "We're told that the kid was there at that event, but not necessarily standing behind the president."

 

The truth was: The White House never complained, and the footage was real.

 

On Tuesday night, Letterman aired Kagan's and Phillips' skeptical remarks and ranted: "An out-and-out, 100 percent absolute lie. The kid absolutely was there and he absolutely was doing everything we pictured via the videotape. ...

 

"So when you cast your vote in November," he urged, "just remember that the White House was trying to make ME look like a DOPE."

 

By then, CNN had owned up to its mistake, and placed a call to Letterman's New York headquarters before the 5:30 p.m. taping began. But the tape was already rolling before Letterman got the word.

 

"According to this," he said during the show, referring to an index card in his grasp, "CNN has just phoned and ... the anchorwoman misspoke. They never got a comment from the White House. It was a CNN mistake."

 

So then he wailed: "Now I've called the White House liars, and you know what that means — they're going to start looking into my taxes!"

 

Though CNN spokeswoman Christa Robinson noted that "we frequently air late-night comedy show clips," on Thursday she confirmed the "misunderstanding among our staff" surrounding the yawning-boy video.

 

Meanwhile, Kagan made an on-air show of contrition.

 

"Dave, we apologize for the error," she said, offering to come on his show for a Stupid Human Trick.

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Styles    0

Styles
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More supressing of our media and free speech by Ashcroft's SS. Not suprising. What scares me most is the message being sent: That a child is yawning, sleeping while George W. Bush II reigns. We can't allow such apathy. We must mobilize the youth of America to take back our country. Normally I'm a Lyndon Larouche supporter (well I did support Howard Dean while he was still in it), but I think it's become painfully clear we MUST elect John Kerry and end the madness. I don't agree with everything Mr. Kerry stands for, but he's a bonafide war hero and a call for hope and change.

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Oh lord. The Communist News Network has been in the pockets of the left wing forever now; you're actually SHOCKED that they DARED make a mistake like this?

 

HAH!

 

Naiveity is cute.

I can't believe you made an ad hominum attack on such a prestigious and honest network like CNN The Cable News Network. CNN just tells the truth, we all know that Bush is a stupid cokehead who is owned and operated by Big Oil and Tobacco. It's no wonder that King George is trying to censor the media, the truth hurts. And Mr. Presidetn it will hurt you more than anybody at the polls in November, that is unless you get your brother and the Supreme Court to subvert our system of democracy again. Tyler, you're such a conservative, but ignorance is bliss. CNN is far and away the best of all the news networks, they're founder had the good sense to marry Jane Fonda, a true American patriot, why he chose to divorce such a strong and intelligent woman is beyond me, but it probably because he is an evil capitalistic white male.

 

I've just noticed the quote in my signature and would like to apoligize for it's content and for quoting a "dead white man". Obviously one can strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. The problem in this country is that we haven't afflicted the comfortable enough. There is still so much suffering, I read somewhere that 20 million people die in America each day from starvation and that 400 Million don't have healthcare. If it weren't for greedy white men refusing to pay their fair share we wouldn't have these problems. I mean look at Cuba, that's how a government should be run.

 

Furthermore Lincoln was a racist slave owner who only "freed the slaves" because he wanted to give them just a sniff of freedom before he snuffed them out. John Wilkes Booth is truly an American hero for killing him..... Hold on, some conservative told me that Lincoln didn't own slaves and that he frequently spoke about how he desired that all men everywhere be free. I know, I know I could barely contain my laughter either. The mere thought that a dead white man could posisbly have wanted to free the slaves is crazy. But even if what I said about Lincoln isn't true, it doesn't really matter because my intentions were good and that America is still a male dominated bigoted country still trying to keep the black man down.

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Some Guy    0

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I am not a traitor! You right wing religious fanatics can't come up with anything else because you know in your hearts (that is if you have one) that we're correct. We are on the correct side of the womyn's movement, civil rights,abortion, economics, and everything else for that matter. All you can come up with is "traitor" and "appeaser". Just because we look at BOTH sides of the debate doesn't mean we're traitors. I mean come on we pretended to be upset when those noble freedom fighters flew planes in the WTC and the Pentagon. Several members of the peaceful religion of Islam died. Just because we didn't support your bloody war for oil doen't mean we're any less American. We love America like adults, not children clinging to their mother like you right wing whackos.

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Guest MikeSC   

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Nice essay, loser. Too bad you couldn't have actually like, y'know, mattered.

 

Anyone who opposes the Bush administration is a traitor. Too bad you couldn't have put yourself to better use.

WHOA!

 

It's us liberals who really love America!

-=Mike

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Guest netslob   

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Anyone who opposes the Bush administration is a traitor. Too bad you couldn't have put yourself to better use.

heh...way to keep an open-mind there, buddy...

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