Letterman vs. the White House and CNN

On Monday night, David Letterman showed a clip of the President giving a speech. Behind the President was a young teenage boy clearly not too involved in what the President had to say. The film is edited to show the boy’s yawns, his stretches, his all but falling asleep. It’s pretty funny, but not exactly newsworthy.

On Tuesday night, Letterman showed a clip of a CNN anchor woman reporting that according to the White House the kid wasn’t at the speech. Letterman calls this a lie. Then he showed another clip of CNN saying that the White House now says that the kid was at the speech, but not where Letterman shows him, i.e., directly behind the President. Letterman calls that a lie, too.

You can see both Letterman clips at Over/Spun.

All of this was brought to NewMexiKen’s attention by Atrios at Eschaton.