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From: Jan Aldrich <jan@cyberzone.net>
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 15:38:06 -0400
Fwd Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 01:10:04 -0400
Subject: UpDate: Bush 'UFO Statement' - CNN.com Hacked or Jacked?


An intrusion into the CNN.com website has altered the transcript
of the Saturday Morning News with a correspondent speculating
that the reason Governor George W. Bush picking former
Congressman and Former Secretary of Defense Richard Cheney as
his Vice Presidential running mate was to reveal "the truth"
about UFOs.

The UFO portion of the transcript, completely out of context,
has a statement inserted into correspondent Jonathan Karl
commentary with an interruption, by an unidentified citizen and
finally statement by Governor Bush that Chaney "knows."

Offices of CNN.com in both New York and Atlanta have been
informed of this alteration as has the Media Center at the
Republican National Convention.

 From the hoaxer(s) point of view this was an excellent time to
initiate this scam. The news organization moved large portions
of their operations to the convention city, and regular offices
are left with reduced staff. Likewise most of the candidates
personnel have also moved to the convention. So the chances for
detection of such a hoax are lessen. Denials from the candidates
offices are harder to get with all the confusion of the
surrounding the operations of the convention.

The other problem for the hoaxer is that he has to get the
altered transcript before the public. To accomplish this he has
to use catspaws who are credulous and will not, for a moment,
stop to examine the material or confirm its authenticity.

This should sound familar, it has been done before.

I've talked to local newsmen about this transcript. If there
was any chance that the statement were true, it would be on the
wire services already, not placed there by someone who happened
to stumble across this transcript, but as an execlusive CNN
story with a CNN byline.

Jan Aldrich


Source: CNN.com Transcripts

http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0007/29/smn.01.html


Saturday Morning News

Bush-Cheney Take Campaign on the Road; Gore Takes a Vacation

Aired July 29, 2000 - 8:00 a.m. ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL
FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: We begin this morning, where else?
Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love. It's the site of a
convention. You've heard about it a little bit, the Republican
National Convention, which is being carefully orchestrated to
send George W. Bush and Dick Cheney to the White House.

KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: Speaking of brotherly love, Leon
Harris joins us from Philadelphia with the latest on that big
event, which begins on Monday. Hey, there, Leon.

LEON HARRIS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning.

Actually, this is now the city of Republican love. How's that
for you, huh? Well, good morning folks, as we are high above the
floor of the Comcast First Union Center on the city's South
Side. Now this center is being transformed. It's almost there.
Red, white and blue bunting is going to greet the arriving
Republican faithful and all the media covering this gathering.

Now, the candidates, Bush and Cheney, are taking their campaign
through Kentucky today with stops in Owensboro, Louisville and
Covington.

And CNN's Jonathan Karl tells us this morning how Cheney is
reacting to his return to the campaign trail after a long
absence.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

DICK CHENEY (R), VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Mercy.

JONATHAN KARL, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Call him the
reluctant candidate. Dick Cheney used his kickoff speech to
remind people George W. Bush had to talk him into taking the
job.

CHENEY: I'm proof positive, the mere fact that I'm on the
ticket, that he's a smooth talker.

KARL: Republicans call him safe, solid, dependable and short-
winded. His speech in Springdale, Arkansas lasted barely three
minutes.

CHENEY: And it is going to be a tough campaign, make no mistake
about it. We're going to have to fight every single day in every
single state for every single vote.

KARL: After this, Cheney's first appearance outside his home
state, Bush joked to his aides, "He's the perfect running mate
for me because I talk a lot and he doesn't."

If it looks like he hasn't campaigned in more than a decade,
maybe it's because he hasn't. But with some people, his very
lack of polish is an asset.

UNIDENTIFIED CITIZEN: Integrity and character is back. God bless
you.

KARL: Cheney played low key loyalist. Along the way, someone
thought Cheney's impressive resume would help Bush tell the
truth about UFOs.

UNIDENTIFIED CITIZEN: Half the public believes that they are
real. Would you finally tell us what the hell is going on?

GOV. GEORGE W. BUSH (R-TX), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Sure, I
will. This man knows. He was Secretary of Defense and was a
great one.

KARL: And low key or not, Cheney drew an enthusiastic response from the
Republican faithful.

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