CNN cuts to President Bush as he's rehearsing

Ahhh. Live television. There's nothing quite like it, is there? Tonight, CNN cut to President Bush's speech on immigration a tad bit early. The president was actually rehearsing as CNN suddenly interrupted an anchor's pre-speech analysis by cutting to the President delivering a line from his speech. Then, the President stopped and looked away.

It turns out, it wasn't really CNN's fault. NBC was the pool network on the speech and it was supposed to keep up a graphic on the screen until a countdown showed up and then the President gave his speech. But, some NBC producer had the graphic taken down early so the network feed showed the President speaking. I would guess that the folks in the control booth at CNN crapped their pants when they saw the President appear on the network feed early, delivering his speech. Of course, all the conspiracy theorists will argue that CNN was trying to make the President look stupid.

The video of CNN's goof is after the jump (or catch it here later, if YouTube is busy):