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On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Steven wrote:
> There are two mpeg clips, one is 13MB and the other is 1.8MB. I
> downloaded them yesterday, but that web site now has password
> protection. If someone has a location where they can be uploaded to,
> please let me know, as I am happy to make them available.
>
>
> >Does anyone know if this clip available online?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian O. Sheppard [mailto:bsheppard at bari.iww.org]
> Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 4:29 PM
> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Subject: Bush gets clipped, BBC apologizes (fwd)
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 15:23:47 -0500
> From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
> Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> To: lbo-talk <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
> Subject: Bush gets clipped, BBC apologizes
>
> Washington Post - March 21, 2003
>
> We Begin Combing in Five Minutes!
> By Lloyd Grove
>
> The White House is vowing a strong retaliatory response after the BBC
> aired live video of President Bush getting his hair coiffed in the Oval
> Office as he squirmed in his chair and practiced on the teleprompter
> minutes before Wednesday night's speech announcing the launch of
> military operations against Saddam Hussein.
>
> The British network broadcast 1 minute and 37 seconds of presidential
> primping to hundreds of millions of viewers in 200 countries around the
> world (and locally on WETA, Channel 26) before Bush's formal address at
> 10:15 p.m. Yesterday the BBC's White House producer, Mark Orchard,
> profusely and repeatedly apologized to irked staffers for airing video
> of an "unauthorized" portion of the pool feed while Washington anchor
> Mishal Husain chatted up a colleague about the significance of the
> moment.
>
> CBS News Washington bureau chief Janet Leissner, whose news crew was
> responsible for pool coverage of the speech, also apologized to the
> White House, explaining that a technician accidentally flipped a switch
> that fed the images of a not-ready-for-prime-time Bush -- his eyes
> darting to and fro as a female stylist sprayed, combed and patted down
> his hair.
>
> A BBC spokeswoman told us that her network promptly realized the video
> was not for broadcast "but they couldn't pull away because of technical
> difficulties." Meanwhile, we hear that in Britain, the commercial
> network ITV also aired the hair-raising feed.
>
> "It was an honest mistake," Leissner told us yesterday -- but the
> Bushies were not impressed.
>
> "The facts are that it was an unauthorized use of footage and video," a
> senior White House official told us, asking not to be named. "Both the
> BBC and CBS have apologized, and it would be understandable if this were
> the only time this has happened. I'm not suggesting it was intentional,
> but this kind of thing has happened more than once."
>
> Henceforth, the official said, the White House -- not the networks --
> will throw the switches that make pool feeds available to broadcast
> outlets. "There have been too many incidents," the official said,
> listing various presidential speeches allegedly marred by pool-feed
> glitches. "We have to make sure we are comfortable with the situation."
>