By:
SilentPatriot on Wednesday, February 20th, 2008 at 5:27 PM - PST
To be fair, Anderson Cooper didn’t actually say what the closed captioning stenographer thinks he did. But, c’mon. How many hearing-impaired Americans do you suppose are out there that think bin Laden called Senator Obama last night? The world may never know. What we do know is that this isn’t the first time this “mistake” has been made.
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Here’s CNN’s contact info in case you want to let them know how you feel. As always, be polite:
One CNN Center, Box 105366, Atlanta, GA 30303-5366
Phone: 404-827-1500
Fax: 404-827-1906
E-mail: www.cnn.com/feedback
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A new low!
Congratulations CNN!
Gotta love the librul media!
Anderson, is that Prada?
Corporate news at its best …. not . Shame on CNN. Telling lies since 1980.
All your votes are belong to us
I LOL’d
What did Al Qeada say about VICKY?
OK, breaking news - McCain was having an affair NYTimes breaking story!!
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02.....r=1&hp
Romney on a suicide watch…..
Mimi @ 8:
You beat me to it! LOL!!!!!!!!
Willy Horton also called, says thanks for letting him out of the pen.
Christmas has come early!!
Poor Cindy McCain - wonder if she is still proud? She should know once a cheater always a cheater.
So much for repub family values.
Yeah, but due to fisa expiring, we couldn’t tape the cal!!!
The email link for leaving a response with CNN is not working, at least via my gmail account
Me too, Mimi and Dr. Matt.
Won’t Fox be pissed at CNN, though? Misleading graphics (Larry Craig, D-Idaho, et cetera) is Fox’s TURF. They invented that shit.
No wonder churches in Lower BooFoo, Tennessee think Obama wants to take the oath of office on the Koran. CNN ,,, a wholly owned subsidiary of Fox Noise!
Mimi, don’t worry. Cindy is PROUD of her country.
And the McCain…uh…affair is “breaking news” on MSNBC? Just let me know if that spy sattelite is heading my way, thanks.
It’s hard to believe this wasn’t done on purpose by a right-wing stenographer. I mean, confusing Obama and Osama is one thing, since they’re only different by one letter, but how does someone hear “Hillary Clinton” and transcribe it as “Al Qaeda”?
You really couldn’t write this shit- noone would believe.
Correction CNN
It was Albert Kada A close personal friend of Obama calling to congratulate him
WTF?
I understand Cthulhu also dreamed himself in from his sunken tomb in R’Yleh. Wished Obama all the best. Told him it was really uplifting to know that this country had come so far. Then psychically exploded into Yog-Sothian gibberish when he/it saw the banner on the Anderson Cooper piece, which he was only watching because he finds Tucker Carlson to be an evil little midget who gives him bad dreams at night.
I agree with # 18 - no way this was an accident….perhaps someone was trying to “joke” and forgot to delete, but even so, that shows that they were being baised, unprofessional and unworthy of a job. Heads should roll for this and there better be a MAJOR X 10 retraction and apology every hour for the next week. - I’m not holding my breath.
Disgusting.
What bullshit. And why should we be any more polite than that asshole Glenn Beck that they have spewing for them? Why contact them at all, though. What will follow is the half-hearted apology, which just gives the story more legs and it becomes another urban legend that moronicons will believe and spread ad nauseum.
looks like cnn and fox have more than three letters in common.
This text is normally done by computer rather then have some one type them out, afaik. It’s a funny/horrendous mistake, depending on what side of the fence you sit on.
I emailed CNN at the email address provided, and it was returned–I’ll try again without the cnn. at the beginning, that’s probably a mistake (a real one!).
Here’s the email, I suggest rather than comment to the choir we each give CNN our 2 cents’ worth:
I’m shocked to see your closed captioning substituted
“Al Qaeda” for “Hillary Clinton” describing her
congratulating Barack Obama not once but THREE times!
I saw the video on the website “Crooks and Liars” (www.crooksandliers.com). It
also posted links to TWO other such incidents; here
are the links:
http://rawstory.com/news/2006/....._0101.html
http://uploads.blip.tv/file/662626
I find the second one especially disturbing; who in
the world would considerate it good taste to suggest
that Barack Obama would point at Osam Bin Laden like a
supporter?
How many times do think even the most gullible among us will
believe these are “honest” mistakes rather than just
outrageous behavior!? I now consider CNN to be
a referent in the name of this website–you are truly Crooks
and Liars! I will be sure never to watch your “news”
program again and will be emailing this information
far and wide.
Disgusting, shameful, behavior.
these a-holes still had Repug strategist Amy Holmes listed as a “cnn contributer” on last nights election coverage.
I wrote to CNN using that email address but got it back with a “permanent error” message. Is there a better email address? This really is outrageous and I want to email them again but have it get through.
Bodan @ 26:
GIGO
CNN’s computers do NOT type things on their own. If they’re using speech recognition software, they really need to look into something that costs more than 25 cents. Al Qaeda and Hillary Clinton aren’t even close.
it’s amazing what desperation can do to the always ‘cool’ and unflappable establishment and man, i’m enjoying it! if barack obama can put a drop of sanity into this ridiculous episode…
Ok let’s be perfectly clear about something. It wasn’t a mistake. We all know that.
And anyone who thinks cnn is any better than faux hasn’t been paying attention.
Email returned again, looks like you have to go to cnn.com/feedback.
Obama is an amateur. The only thing that would tempt me to vote for him is if Oprah gives me a car.
They will totally miss the John McCain story.
@eyeswideopen
www.cnn.com/feedback
I just sent them this:
It’s polite, but to the point. This is fucking bullshit.
yellow dog @ 30:
GIGO?
I agree. I have seen mistakes happen from time to time, its when some one talks fast that the computer has a hard time translating it.
“Here’s CNN’s contact info in case you want to let them know how you feel. As always, be polite:”
I won’t say a word.
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I think today was the day that everybody took the gloves off.
Didn’t even have to wait for the general election.
Clinton news network strikes again. Is it because the headquarters is located in Atlanta? Who was suspended? or fired? Who was the commercial sponsor who advertised right before or after the segment? We ought to pressure them - follow the money to pressure the boob or his bose behind the teleprompter.
Like Al Sharpton or Al Gore wouldnt have delivered enough outrage to the sub body temperature IQs in the viewing audience.
“CNN apologizes for Obama gaffe in Bin Laden graphic ”
-and the 37 other “mistakes” they will make in the run up to the general election…
Andy @ 34:
HAHA!
and YOU get a new car! and YOU get a new car!
priceless
xoites defends Constitution @ 39:
got’cha.
Very well done BTW…
Not mine, but i like it!
Off topic, but important breaking story from the NYT:
February 21, 2008
For McCain, Self-Confidence on Ethics Poses Its Own Risk
By JIM RUTENBERG, MARILYN W. THOMPSON, DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK and STEPHEN LABATON
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02.....ref=slogin
“A female lobbyist had been turning up with him at fund-raisers, in his offices and aboard a client’s corporate jet. Convinced the relationship had become romantic, some of his top advisers intervened to protect the candidate from himself — instructing staff members to block the woman’s access, privately warning her away and repeatedly confronting him, several people involved in the campaign said on the condition of anonymity.”
WTF is going on at CNN?
Have they just started making screw ups like foxnews or have they always made mistakes like this but C&L is only starting to report on them now?
Andy @ 34:
Yes, these proffesional politicians are sooo cool!
“And we elect them again and again…”
Unless deaf folks think Al Qaeda has become a female senator from New York that regularly travels around the country I think they can figure out that they didn’t really mean Al Qaeda.
Currently, it appears that CNN makes about 1/5th of the amount of mistakes that my local news team does.
Believe it or not, most mistakes are not veiled attempts to screw you over.
yellow dog @ 30:
Yellow_dog do you actually know what kind of closed captioning (CC) system CNN uses?
There are two ways to produce live CC — automated electronic and stenographers.
If it is automated, then you really can’t blame CNN — blame the software. I’ve used voice recognition software and it isn’t that great (and let’s face it — Anderson Cooper is not the most easy to understand CNN reporter).
But if it is a stenographer, then that is clearly only one person’s fault — the stenographer. Why blame CNN?
My guess would be that they have hotkeys for certain often-used names — like Hillary Clinton and Al-Qaeda. Seems very possible to mix up a hotkey combination. No stenographer is perfect (and this is the first time for a stenography error to be mentioned on CNN — the other errors with with image captions and video).
Stevenovitch @ 50:
Yeah, CNN makes about 1/5th the mistakes my local Al Qaeda team does as well.
Yeah that email is bouncing on my gmail…?
McCain on Thanksgiving: “Yes, I will have some more of that lemming stew. Is Michelle Omaba still proud of her country today? HAW HAW HAW.”