Did CNN leak Obama’s VP pick early?!
Posted by Carlos C. on Tuesday, August 19th, 2008 at 12:36 am
According to a leaked CNN story, Obama’s VP pick will be Senator Evan Bayh of Indiana!
FreeRepublic.com captured a CNN story screen shot stating that Evan Bayh will be Barack Obama’s vice presidential running mate!
Also, Hot Air is stating that if this screen shot is NOT a hoax, then CNN figured out the pick, ran a story, then removed the story at the command request of the Obama campaign!
UPDATE 1: It looks like the screen shot is a fake. I never said it was real.
That’s how gossip goes - sometimes it’s real, and sometimes it’s B.S.
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You will notice that the subject line of the browser does not match the article title. Curiously, the text is riddled with typos, AND it is not anti-aliased like the rest of the page.
Yes, the screen shot is questionable.
Additionally, the supposed “leak” does not have usual citation CNN attributes to its images (most commonly, “getty images”). Furthermore, the taskbar subject (it has an apostrophe) does not agree with the top of the Internet Explorer window (it doesn’t have an apostrophe). Another hole in this obvious fake is that it directly utilizes the SAME EXACT story highlights from a story CNN actually published (”Analysis: Countdown is on to Obama’s VP Announcement”). Please give yourself a little credit and actually bother to examine the blatantly false content you are posting.
I never claimed that this is true. I claimed that this is a rumor.
I don’t trust it. The New York Post printed papers of John Kerry picking Dick Gephart. About an hour later they had to pick up all the papers and replace them with John Edwards. I thought he was going to pick Tim Kaine or Kathleen Sebelius.
[...] Obama Picks Evan Bayh for VP – we think Posted on August 22, 2008 by John Hancock Rumors around the blogosphere have Evan Bayh as the pick for Obama’s VP ticket. The story is coming from a leaked email to close supporters of Obama’s that were accidentally sent word via a text message. Twenty minutes after the message was sent a follow-up message was sent asking the few that received it to keep it quiet. Word got out to CNN and they are running the story now. Read the story by clicking here or another version of the story by clicking here. [...]