Did Countdown go down on anyone else? Did a test pattern show up a minute or 2 ago?

[Ecumenist]

[abbeyco]

1. Mebbe issues at their new studios?

[LyndaG]

2. YES

Truly strange.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

3. yes, but, they may have gone a little over.

It was an interesting lively interview, too.

MKJ

[babylonsister]

4. Yes. nt

[Staph]

5. I saw the same thing.

It was right in the middle of the discussion of the Harry Potter series and JK Rowling's intentional portrayal of the evil in the books as a metaphor for the evil in the Bush/Blair administrations.

I may have to get my tin foil witch's hat refitted.

[rox63]

6. Yep, it was about a minute before it was scheduled to end anyway n/t

[Bluestar]

7. Yes, it happened here, but I am in So Cal and thought my cable

went out with all the fires and wind we have tonight.

[la la]

18. yeah, I thought our cable went out as well.

Then Dan Abrams came on and not a peep about it.

I'm thinkin' tin hat thoughts, too.

[Catchawave]

8. Yes, someone probably tripped over a cable in the new studio...

And will probably be on the Oddball list tommorrow night :rofl:

[2rth2pwr]

24. Could have been Randi Rhodes. nt

[Bitwit1234]

9. Talk about strange

Jay Leno , for some reason does not jokes about the republicans then he used to . But he gets down to the nitty gritty ever so often. The last three times he was ranting about the bush administration the feed went out. And did not come back on til his mono log was over. And that wasn't the first time. I think our cable company deliberately blips these segments.

[defendandprotect]

10. YES... WHAT WAS IT?

[eShirl]

11. the government is censoring discussion of Harry Potter charachters

:tinfoilhat:

[Berry Cool]

13. Oh, yeah, sure, it's the government.

And I thought it was Fox Security trying to "welcome" Keith to his new studios.

Funny, I was going to start a thread saying "Keith Olbermann went down on me," but then I realized that a lot of people wouldn't believe it.

[defendandprotect]

15. I would go so far as to try for a transcript to see what happened at end -- ????

[JerseygirlCT]

12. Yes nt

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

14. Sure did. We were like, WTF?

[classof56]

16. Yep, happened to me here in Oregon.

Odd, but guess it's good to know I wasn't alone!

[Blue_In_AK]

17. Yes.

[nevergiveup]

19. Yes, I thought maybe

we had been attacked by Iran.

[mod mom]

20. Yes and it has happened during several of the last shows here.

I'm only thankful that it wasn't a special comment.

[jkshaw]

21. Yes, it went down in Cache Valley,

Utah, too. Our youngest daughter walked in the room intoning, "This is a test, this is only a test..."

[Tarheel_Dem]

22. North Carolina too....

thought it was my stupid cable provider because my digital sucks sometimes. I never even considered that it was probably just a screw up in the new studios.

[DeepModem Mom]

23. I just watched the late repeat, and the last minute or so was not cut off.

KO and Chris Cillizza concluded their discussion on "Harry Potter," saying that the books would probably be discussed in political terms, and then signed off with polite thank-yous.