Fox apologizes for using bogus teaparty protest clip

By David Edwards and John Byrne
Thursday, November 12th, 2009 -- 8:40 am
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hannity show1 Fox apologizes for using bogus teaparty protest clipShocker: Fox News isn't always fair and balanced.

After Comedy Central's The Daily Show pointed out Tuesday night that Fox News' Sean Hannity program used footage from another GOP protest in a clip about a recent teaparty rally, Hannity admitted the network incorrectly used bogus footage in their interview with Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-MN).

"Finally tonight...Although it pains me to say this, Jon Stewart, Comedy Central - he was right," Hannity admitted Wednesday.

"On his program last night he mentioned that we had played some incorrect video on this program last week while talking about the Republican Health Care rally on Capitol Hill," Hannity continued.

"He was correct, we screwed up - we aired some video of a rally in September, along with a video from the actual event," he added. "It was an inadvertent mistake, but a mistake nonetheless. So Mr. Stewart, you were right… we apologize… and by the way, I want to thank you, and all your writers, for watching."

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Stewart noted Tuesday that Fox showed clips of two rallies and pretended they were one and the same.

"I'm sorry, can we get back again," Stewart remarked. "That was weird. Because when that clip started, it was a clear fall day in Washington, D.C. Not a cloud in the sky, the leaves have changed.

"All of a sudden, the trees turn green again, and it's cloudy, and it looks like thousands and thousands of more people arrived," he continued. "If I didn't know any better, I would think they just put two different days together and acted like they didn't."

Hannity's apology, and The Daily Show's Jon Stewart's report, follows.

This video is from Fox News' Hannity, broadcast Nov. 11, 2009.



Download video via RawReplay.com

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  • damixaustex
    Someone who watches Hannity and Fox and not much else still has no idea what Hannity was talking about. That weak apology did not clarify facts for the viewers and proves Fox intentionally mislead and is willing to foment ignorance.
  • Hannity tries to save face and be "cute" by saying: "Thanks for watching"...he really means: "PLEASE STOP POINTING OUT OUR DOCTORED VIDEOS!!!"
  • Winghunter
    Obviously, you've got an axe to grind as Hannity isn't a FOX reporter. AND many are not stupid as you are and can pick up on what's being said so, the only "fomenting" going on around here is the crap you're shoveling.

    There's no excuse for Hannity to allow that to happen and I already can't stand the idiot, HOWEVER, your drooling as a fool will only catch up to you sooner than later.
  • Pointing out someone airing doctored footage on a "news" channel to push a GOP political agenda....is having an "axe to grind", huh? Your name should be "Wingnut", not "Winghunter".

    Once is an accident; a HISTORY of it is being a 24x7 political operation for the GOP:

    FOX "news" history of doctoring videos and photos:

    http://mediamatters.org/research/200911110019

    Let's not forget, the head of FOX "news" is Roger Ailes. Ailes was to Bush I what Karl Rove was to Bush II. Someone like that heads a "news" channel and claims to be "fair and balanced". Maybe next: Karl Rove starts another "fair and balanced" news channel.

    Another thing to keep in mind is this: all of FOX's "accidents" always happen to benefit the GOP. That's not an accident, then!

    How stupid do you think people are? Wake up: their "accidents" are NOT accidents! Hannity's apology is hollow, adding "thanks for watching"...like the lying wiseass he is. Funny, Rather got drummed off the air for ONE thing that turned out to be true: Bush was AWOL. Wingnuts are hypocrites, they sit around saying it's "OK" when their news channel consistently is caught doing FALSE news at an off-the-charts pace. Then they say MSNBC isn't fair. MSNBC isn't LYING and DOCTORING video, but they're not fair because they're airing true stories that make the right look bad. That's "not being fair" to rightwingers: airing TRUE news that makes them look bad.
  • matticusfinch
    MSNBC is to the left what Fox News is to the right. MSNBC never goes after the democrats like they went after the republicans during bush.

    Its all a sham, there is no objective news anymore, its all propaganda.
  • damixaustex
    Here's what a retraction sounds like. It includes facts. Maybe you've never come across those things.

    Enjoy.
    http://www.onthisdayinoregon.com/04_02.html
  • roooth
    It wasn't a mistake, it was a miracle! Like the multiplying loaves and fishes - cause, you know, Jesus loves the teabaggers and Faux News best of all.

    Or, it really was just an innocent mistake - the wrong video just jumped out of whatever file it was in and mysteriously appeared in this segment.

    Look, ma - no hands!

    Oh, the wonder that is Fox.
  • Winghunter
    Next asshole Commie to call a loyal American patriot a teabagger is likely going to lose several teeth...I hope you volunteer, buttnugget.
  • teabagger teabagger teabagger teabagger teabagger teabagger teabagger teabagger teabagger teabagger teabagger teabagger teabagger teabagger teabagger teabagger teabagger teabagger teabagger teabagger
  • roooth
    lol!
  • roooth
    Oh yeah? Well, the next disloyal lying sack of teabagging doodoo that calls a loyal American a commie is a used douchebag that wouldn't know the Constitution if it walked up and slapped him - and that's you, Wingnut.

    I know it's hard for you right now - you have to maintain an unhealthy level of hatred and vitriol for at least the next eight years - and that's not easy, but, tough shit, wanker.

    Your side LOST in a very big way - and deservedly so. Your side damn near ruined the entire country and nothing you can say; no insult, no lies, no revisionist history, can change that. Now the adults have to clean up the mess your side left and you can't stand being so completely wrong - so you plan on just staying pissed off.

    Must be hard to be you, loser - but elections have consequences.

    Love it or Leave it, wanknut.
  • darin29
    caught with your pants down like falafel guy. How about the fake news stories and remanufactured anti-Obama stolries which you insert than allow to swirl around right wing world...FOX, hate radio and Sarah palin express...
  • dennycrane
    Whoever gets the "job" of tallying up when they "tell" the truth has the easiest job in the world.
  • Elfap
    well if they weren't watching Hannity, you would get away with the lies and slander that you report. So yes, thank you Jon.
  • imwc
    any network that has to advertise "fair and balanced", is neither...has america become that ignorant to give enough viewers to fox to allow their exixtence?...
  • Savantster
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    yes
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  • matticusfinch
    indeed. sheeple are endemic in this country unfortunately....
  • Winghunter
    No, moron, it is ignorant fools glued to their crack pipes and mainstrem media without any clue as to what they're being told.

    This RAW just refers to the sewage that hangs out around here, doesn't it.
  • roooth
    You do keep showing up.
  • barrelhse
    Sure, just an honest mistake. Happens ALL the time , like..um..like, uh...you know, all the time.
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