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Sean Hannity to Stewart: 'You were right'

by Susan Marie Kovalinsky | November 12, 2009 at 04:48 am

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Responding to the Daily Show host Jon Stewart, Sean Hannity of Fox News admitted that when Stewart on Wednesday night called out the network for using footage from a large September Tea Party rally to make last week's small showing on Capitol Hill appear larger, he was right.

Of course, Hannity is saying it was an error, whereas Stewart - and anyone with any shrewdness - claim it was a deliberate falsification:

"And although it pains me to say this, Jon Stewart, Comedy Central, he was right. Now on his program last night, he mentioned that we had played some inccorect video on this program last week while talking about the Republican health care rally on Capitol Hill. He was correct, we screwed up. we aired some video of a rally in september along with a video from the actual event. It was an inadverdent mistake, but a mistake none the less. So, Mr. Stewart, you were right. We apologize. But by the way, we wanna thank you and all your writers for watching."

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Hugh Askew

at 08:23 on November 12th, 2009

Exploding Gas Tanks.

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Susan Marie Kovalinsky

at 08:53 on November 12th, 2009

Of course Fox news is hated by liberals, just as Msnbc is hated by conservatives. Why should it be otherwise? News is not what it was in days of old, this is the digital cable 24/7 news era.

Karen Hatter

at 10:01 on November 12th, 2009

An alleged error, a mistake. Could be.

At the heart of all of this is the greater, ongoing 'credibility gap' being suffered frequently at FOX.

Spin and slant are inevitably found on both sides in any debate.

Falsification of facts and media evidence to accompany and support slant and spin should be an unacceptable tactic being used by any organization calling themselves a news outlet.

News outlets proven guilty of doing so should have their work reclassified satirical entertainment.

After awhile, if enough errors and mistakes are committed, it no longer appears to be an 'Oops!' but planned occurrences by design.

Karen Hatter

at 09:56 on November 20th, 2009

Well, it seems FOX has been at it again, using 2008 campaign footage of an assembled crowd to represent a recent appearance made by the former Governor Palin during her book tour.

I'm having linking/copying issues but, if a Google/Bing or whatever search is done, there are several articles to be found.

FOX has admitted its error. It may be time to reshuffle that research staff or whomever is responsible for looking up that sort of thing, as well as those not checking this stuff before it hits the airwaves.