For 17 seconds, Phoenix, Arizona CBS News affiliate KPHO ran a lower third graphic that showed that Obama had won the Nov. 6 election over Gov. Mitt Romney with 99% of the precincts reporting. The lower third graphic appeared around 3:30 p.m. on Oct. 19, during an episode
of “The People’s Court.”The CBS News graphic showed Obama winning the election with 43 percent of the vote nationwide to Romney’s 40 percent -– or 40,237,966 votes to 38,116,216. It is unclear who garnered the other 17 percent in the fictional election results.
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Can you say...... THE FIX IS IN???
ReplyDeleteWhat a shock!!
The station manager is going to have to come up with an answer. This should be interesting.
DeleteCool, future TV. Maybe I can get the lottery results from them and quit working....Its getting so you can't even believe what your own eyes see anymore.
ReplyDeleteReally.
DeleteOf course, we believe you..........
ReplyDeleteUPDATE 12:10 p.m.:
Michele Wallace of KPHO told TheDC that this was the result of a mistake made with a test graphic:
“On Friday October 19th during a test of KPHO- CBS 5’s election returns software we inadvertently aired a test graphic for about 15 seconds in an episode of Peoples Court,” Wallace said. “The mistake was caught quickly and taken off the screen. With the election about 2 weeks away, the TV station routinely tests its equipment to ensure our viewers have the very latest’s results on election night. We regret the error and apologize to any viewer who was confused by the mistake.”
..A "test"...? with the numbers set, (precincts reporting,99%, Obama 43% or 40,237,966 to Romney's 40% or 38,116,216... this was a test....? Ifso, why not have the numbers at "0" on all sets...? No, this was leaked by someone there to give a "heads up" to what is going to take place on Nov. 6th.... I bet some programer there got walking papers the same day....
DeleteThis also happened one time before in the 90s. I think it was Clinton who called the winner a month before the election. I forget the details but it has happened before.
ReplyDeleteDo note, that John McCain a lady at the RNC in 2008, that Obama will make you a good president, that he loves America just like you do. Oddly this was never aired again! But I see it as it happened at the close of the convention, on TV.
Michael-- Deo Vindicabamur
That's what I get for not proofing what I write.
ReplyDeleteLet's try this again.
This also happened one time before in the 90s. I think it was Clinton who was called the winner a month before the election. I forget the details but it has happened before.
Do note, that John McCain told a lady at the RNC in 2008, that Obama will make you a good president, that he loves America just like you do. Oddly this was never aired again! But I saw it as it happened at the close of the convention, on TV.
Michael-- Deo Vindicabamur
John McCain told a lady at the RNC in 2008, that Obama will make you a good president, that he loves America just like you do. Oddly this was never aired again! But I saw it as it happened at the close of the convention, on TV.
ReplyDeleteWhatever happened to The POW John McCain?
"Whatever happened to the POW John McCain".... i have asked myself that very same question time and time again! What the hell happened to that man?
ReplyDeleteThe Vietnamese brainwashed him and he ratted on his own POWs. If he didn't he mite as well have for he made few if any friends from his fellow POWs. Remember Jane Fonda? I think they eloped....
ReplyDeleteMichael-- Deo Vindicabamur
I certainly would like to get to the bottom of that. As far as Jane Fonda is concerned, Jim Webb's statement was perfect:
Delete"I wouldn't walk across the street to watch her slit her wrists" Amen.
Here's one on McCain that I just read tonight.
http://www.military.com/opinion/0,15202,164859,00.html?wh=wh