April 3, 2004

[Al Franken Mode] I accuse the White House of lying to CNN about a bored kid! LYING LIAR! [/Al Franken Mode]

Posted By Chris Crosby at 8:39 AM

Sparked by another forum thread, here's more on what I posted a couple days ago accusing the White House of lying about incredibly unimportant things.

To catch you up, here's the story in a nutshell: David Letterman ran a video on his show of a kid in the background of a Bush speech being visibly bored and/or sleepy. Then CNN ran that video clip, had a good laugh over the funny kid, and went to a commercial. Over the next two hours, they made a point twice to break into news and say that the White House had contacted them saying the video was FAKE, an editing trick by Letterman's show inserting the bored kid into the background. But it WASN'T edited in any way. Dave went on his next show kinda pissed, telling off CNN and the White House for lying about the video. CNN called Dave and told him it was a mistake, the White House hadn't called after all, but didn't really bother to explain what actually happened in detail. Dave felt bad and apologized to the White House, CNN apologized to everybody, and everything was fine... until Dave learned from "an undisputable source, a very high-placed source" (Dave's words) that the White House DID contact CNN. As of Thursday night's show (video and transcript linked), Dave was saying "I'm pretty sure the White House contacted CNN." On Friday night's show, the bored kid from the video was the first guest and was very entertaining, but there were no new developments on the controversy.

Damn, that's a pretty big nutshell.

Like Dave, my guess is that the White House DID contact CNN and tell them the video was fake. That would be stupid, disturbing, and right in line with the past behavior of the Bush administration. If that's proven untrue, I'll let you guys know. * 0 comments

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