Petty Partisan Pathologies

Drudge and others caught CNN playing games with Vice President Cheney's speech last nite. Someone in the control room at CNN thought it was funny to put an X on the screen over Cheney. Lovely. CNN is investigating. What's next? Painting in mustaches and devil horns?

Will they determine it to be fake, but accurate? Enough already!

It would certainly appear that more than a few people on the Left are incapable of acting their age. CNN is chalking this up to a glitch, but Don reminds folks that CNN is the former home of Eason Jordan, who got all cozy with Saddam Hussein for the privilege of broadcasting from Iraq (in return for not saying anything bad about Iraq mind you). Oh, and the same Eason Jordan who made bald faced assertions that US forces were targeting and murdering journalists.

Others blogging this are The Political Teen (who has the video), Wizbang, and Rick Moore, Politechnical, Blogs for Bush (which notices that there may be more to the message on the crawl), Michelle Malkin, Political Satire Fake News, Stop the ACLU, JunkYard Blog, Pundit Guy, Atlas Shrugged and many others. Memeorandum has more.

UPDATE:
As usual, PointFive, GOP and the City (circle marks the square) both note the humor in the situation. Flopping Aces goes through the technicals of the situation, and concludes that this wasn't a simple glitch.

UPDATE:
Evan Coyne Maloney thinks that this is an example of incompetence, not malice.

UPDATE:
The techie stuff seems to be all over the place, and the Political Teen has issued an update on the subject, which includes a retraction/apology for the video he's posted.

There was an “X” over Cheney’s head, correct? Like Drudge, I never claimed otherwise. I am just saying that when I posted the video I was being as impartial as I could. I did not give an opinion or claim that CNN was up to no good nor did I say the opposite.

CNN is still investigating the matter, and sticks to the computer/technical error.