Why is CNN going on about the damned balloons?

[last1standing]

A brilliant speech by Kerry and all CNN can do is cut to someone yelling about balloons. Then they spend another while talking about the "bad omen" of the balloons not dropping.

We are doomed if we let this continue.

[LiveWire]

1. OMFG!!!

"Where are the fucking balloons!"-Whoever that random person was on CNN
"Jesus Christ, where's the confettie?"

[DeadHead67]

14. What's CNN ? (TeeHeeHee)

[chelsea0011]

15. Don't they get fined for this. Thank the repubs!

naughty word=$100,000

[demon67]

2. DId you hear the on air comment by the producer?

Unreal. The guy says "What the fuck is going on up there? We need more baloons!" Not good.

[last1standing]

5. It was his job to coordinate the balloons and confetti.

It was not CNN's job to put him on the air. I hope they get nailed by the FCC for airing profanity.

Just before that damned stupid rule is reversed, of course. :)

[peaches2003]

3. FNC too

Brit Hume and friends are saying the same thing and are very negative. That is good news- they can't think of what to say to refute what JK said tonight.

[RockaFowler]

4. I just flipped to CNN

I just wanted to see what you were talking about. They are so negative. All they could say was - Let's get a repuke in here. This is a brilliant convention and they just want to try and spoil it. I am turning back to CSPAN

[last1standing]

6. Blitzer just apologized for the word

"fuck", but he should have apologized for their entire coverage. I am more disgusted by this than any other so call reporting I've ever seen them do.

repuke bastards all.

[Nimzo Indian]

7. Not to mention....

Throwing Gillespie's ugly mug on screen to rehash the same old tired RNC talking points.

CNN has crossed over Fox as the most RNC slanted news network.

[last1standing]

8. I think they've become the same network.

n/t

[westcoastbias]

9. Watch MXC

Fuck CNN, watch MXC instead. We can all judge for ourselves that Kerry is a far greater mind, and leader than Bush.

[yvr girl]

10. I think they did it on purpose

Why were they patched into the show producer. The tech people, lighting, stage managers etc would have been on intercom all night. Why did they choose to broadcast at that point.

[masshole]

11. absolutely on purpose

they stuck with that audio for minutes...curiously. Then right after the F-bomb is dropped they cut the audio feed. Obviously it was intentional.

[k in IA]

12. MSNBC has a 5 second delay. I guess CNN doesn't or doesn't use it.

[DrFunkenstein]

13. CNN Was Hilarious - They Made Themselves Look Like Asses

Not in the least bit worried. Anyone that watched the speech then watched those knuckleheads will know they are a bunch of morons.

[PVnRT]

16. They need something negative to report

and that's all they have tonight.

[marlakay]

17. I missed that part!

I was watching at a house party and got up to talk to people wanting to volunteer to register voters. We were watching it on Cspan. I watched some with CNN and some cspan the last few days and decided cspan did it better. You actually see ALL the speakers not just the ones they think are important.

[REVOLT823]

18. Did someone from the Convention actually say there was a problem,

It seemed to me that there was enough confetti and balloons, I saw a lot still up in the rafters, but thought they were dropping them in intervals so they would be raining down throughout the period after K's speech in which three whole songs played. Would be funny if someone came on tomorrow and explained that that was the plan and made CNN look even more stupid for making a big deal of it. How is a malfunction of "Balloon dropping equipment" a "bad omen" anyway?