Correction on CNN and the presidential "false start"

This blog briefly ran an entry- based on the original version of this story from Drudge Report- suggesting that CNN had run sixteen seconds of a rehearsal of President Bush's speech tonight, complete with false starts and requests for instructions from off- camera advisers, thereby embarrassing the President on national television.

The original entry has been deleted, since its entire premise is inaccurate. The current version of the Drudge story corrects the original version.

It seems that, in fact, NBC had erroneously prompted the President to begin his speech early- leading to a false start, which only CNN actually broadcast.

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