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I think it's probably right that this is bullshit.

30 minutes of hardcore porn on CNN at 11PM on Thanksgiving on a popular cable network in Boston is an eternity. The idea that only one person saw it and reported it is absurd.

Edit, To wit: http://www.mediaite.com/online/did-the-media-fall-for-a-fake...

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Absolutely:

> ...pixelates the naughty parts while leaving the TiVo lower third graphic untouched.

That was the sentence that locked in the "bullshit alert signal" for me.

Given how badly CNN has fallen in its standards this did not seem as far fetched as it once might have been

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