What Dean said to Blitzer just before being cut off. Just interesting.

[madfloridian]

No conspiracy, just find it interesting. Just a coincidence entirely. Just some powerful words that need repeating. It started out about Lynne Cheney, and Dean turned it around.

BLITZER: It's one thing for Dick Cheney to mention it or for Lynne Cheney to mention it, but it's another thing for someone else to mention it. And they accuse him of mentioning it to try to score political points, to weaken the Republican base, if you will, against the Cheneys and the Republican ticket.

DEAN: Might it also be possible that Karl Rove is making such a big deal about this and Lynne Cheney is making such a big deal about this because they don't want to talk about the fact that we lost a million and a half jobs under George Bush? We don't want to talk about the fact that, in 2001, the General Accounting Office warned the Bush administration that they might run out of flu vaccine if they didn't do something about it?

What about these colossal failures... Lost connection.

BLITZER: Looks like we've lost our connection over there, unfortunately, with Howard Dean. We're going to try to fix that. Apologize to Howard Dean right away for that. We'll try to reestablish our communication with Burlington, Vermont, get right back to Howard Dean.

But we'll take a quick break. We'll be right back."

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0410/17/le.01.html

[WI_DEM]

1. Of course they cut off his connection

[JuniorPlankton]

2. Just a random problem?

Guess again

[Killarney]

3. AHHHHHHHH! Lost connection BULLSHIT!

I hate CNN.

[Career Prole]

4. CNN will decide they need tape delay.

So they can cut him off before he does any damage at all next time.
Good for you, Dr. Dean!!
:yourock:

[aquart]

5. Wait. Did Blitzer just say the Republican base is homophobic?

That's adorable.

[Jacobin]

16. Why yes!!! I believe he did.

Funny how they catch themselves coming and going on this stuff. Well, "funny" is the wrong word. "Sad" would be more like it.

[DS1]

6. You can count the seconds before CNN has another failure

They have one per interview now.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. "Lost connection." Riiight.

Funny how that keeps happening. Just a coincidence, though; everybody move along, nothing to see here...

[Ganja Ninja]

8. People need to loose their connection to CNN. n/t

[GreenPartyVoter]

11. Lost my connection to them months ago. Stick with the internet now

though if I am watching TV, C-Span, PBS, and FSTV are all available to me.

[HootieMcBoob]

9. that happens a lot

and it always seems to be when a democrat is making an important point.

[leftofthedial]

10. these "lost connections" and "technical difficulties"

excuses for censorship are getting so transparent as to be laughable.

When will SNL or the late night comics start doing bits about them?

[info being]

12. THIS SHOULD BE THE DEM RESPONSE TO THIS ISSUE:

"I don't understand what the problem is. Please explain, in detail, why Republicans are so upset by our talking about a lesbian? I'm all ears."

[Ganja Ninja]

14. It's odd that republicans are so angered by ...

Kerry's single mention of Mary Cheney but they keep dwelling on it and pointing to it. Who's trying to exploit this for political gain? Me thinks they doth protest too much.

[realFedUp]

13. hehehe

The Doc diagnoses the problem again.

[drbtg1]

15. things that make you go hmmmm..... or worse

I remember reading about the "lost connection" during the interview with David Brock of Media Matters. Any other examples?

[madfloridian]

17. Do you know when Brocks "lost connection" occurred?

I was checking at Media Matters, but could not see it.

I remember when the March for Women's lives was disconnected quite a while on C-Span. I remember it happened to Clark.

[Jose Diablo]

18. Is Lilly Tomlin working for CNN now??? n/t

[rl6214]

19. CNN just

SUCKS!!!

They really are awefull.