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Jul 30th, 2004 06:57 PM

ArrowX

lol they played the entire speech and the other guy over the Radio

Jul 30th, 2004 11:02 AM

Anonymous

Kerry is toast!

Jul 30th, 2004 09:58 AM

AChimp

Only in America would people care about this. :/

I bet the FCC will get involved now.

Jul 30th, 2004 08:15 AM

Matt Harty

I heard it but had no idea why it was said.

Jul 30th, 2004 07:34 AM

mburbank

I switched over to the daily show and missed it.

Jul 30th, 2004 12:49 AM

Emu

It's funny, because I watch CNN maybe once a year. I just happened to be watching it when he said that.

Jul 30th, 2004 12:21 AM

Jeanette X

I can't believe I missed that. I should watch the news more.

Jul 30th, 2004 12:12 AM

Emu

LOL :(

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...ntion_balloons

Quote:

Glitch Broadcasts Convention Snafu on CNN

1 hour, 16 minutes ago

BOSTON - The Democrats have a balloon problem.

John Kerry (news - web sites) concluded his acceptance speech Friday night, the jubilant convention crowd cheered and the balloons dropped. A few of them. Too few.

"Go balloons," said convention producer Don Mischer, instructing the balloon droppers. "Go balloons. Go balloons!" His voice was becoming increasingly frantic — and it was going out over CNN.

"I don't see anything happening," he said angrily. Unknown to him, CNN was running his name and title across the bottom of the screen.

Long minutes after the place was supposed to be a blizzard of balloons and confetti, Mischer was still shouting that it wasn't happening, at least it wasn't right. Viewers saw a lot of balloons, in fact, and Kerry, family members and delegates happily batted them around. But nothing like the 100,000 that had been supposed to cascade down.

At one point Mischer used a profanity to rebuke his balloon-dropping crew. CNN was still broadcasting his voice.

Finally, they all showered down. And Mischer's unhappy moment of TV fame was over.

His stage instructions were available to all major media covering the convention during the week — for their guidance, not for broadcast.

Stephen Jewett, a DNC official involved in podium operations, said there was no malfunction with the balloon drop. The balloons were timed to come down slowly, he said, making "for a longer ending, which was nice."

Was anybody else watching when he said "What the fuck are you guys doing up there?"

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