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smartvoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 03:02 AM
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Anyone else get the incomplete news alert from CNN today?
I got one that was clearly an error.

It said:

"-- President Bush"

To me, it looked like they were saying we should subtract Bush from the equation.

I thought, "I'll drink to that."

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cmd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 03:05 AM
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1. I got the same message
Someone making a statement, perhaps?
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BQueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 03:08 AM
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2. 2 thoughts
1) they were waiting for him to think of something to say, and he never did....

2) the dashes were in place of a word they can't print....
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chalky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 03:11 AM
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3. I vote for the second.
n/t
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Moochy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 03:15 AM
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4. -- room for two letters ... how about Ex?
-- = Ex

ex president? Maybe the CNN reporters are getting ready for post-indictment Washington?

Either that or someone in the newspeak ministry meant to write out the english translation for "double negative bad"
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wli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 03:26 AM
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5. Please clarify, I have no idea what this is about or its context. n/t
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smartvoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 03:28 AM
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6. A Breaking news alert from CNN today said only this:
"-- President Bush"

That's all we got.
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bananas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 04:39 AM
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8. email alerts from cnn.com
Many news sites let you sign up for breaking news email alerts.
Whenever there is breaking news, they send you an email.
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Vektor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 03:30 AM
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7. I got that too.
Creepy.
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craigolemiss Donating Member (223 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 04:47 AM
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9. and the next one was an hour later
strange--I have seen some like that in the past few years, but usually followed 2 mins or so later by the rest of the info or a correction
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