#Shocker: Fox apologizes for using bogus teaparty protest clip
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[Of course, it was the usual pouty, reluctant, "mistakes were made" sort
of pseudo-apology that right wingers make only when someone has
completely nailed them to the wall on some fuckup, but for Faux, it was
an amazingingly straightforward response.]
By David Edwards and John Byrne
Thursday, November 12th, 2009 -- 8:40 am
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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."
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> Fair and unbiased !
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