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Offline jinxmchue

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Hannity 'Apologizes' for Falsifying Footage of Tea Bagger Rally
« on: November 12, 2009, 10:15:25 AM »
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Hannity 'Apologizes' for Falsifying Footage of Tea Bagger Rally

After The Daily Show busted the Fox 'News' anchor attempting to inflate the apparent attendance for a recent D.C. Tea Bagger rally by using old footage from two months ago, Sean Hannity offered an "apology" of sorts on tonight's show.

Having no choice but to cop to it, Hannity admitted getting busted, though claims it was "an inadvertent mistake". How one can inadvertently go fetch footage from two months ago, and "inadvertently" edit it into a report on an event that took place earlier on the same day is not entirely clear.

He also failed to explain to his viewers the context in which the "incorrect video" actually was shown. Neither did he run Stewart's report from last night explaining clearly how Hannity had attempted to fool them. So, as usual, Hannity's viewers remain largely both in the dark and misinformed.

Here's the transcript and the video of Hannity's statement, which came at the very end of his show tonight, about an hour ago...

STEWART VIDEO, HANNITY 'APOLOGY' VIDEO, TRANSCRIPT:

Well, no, of course he didn't admit to "falsifying" anything, of course.  Here's what Hannity said:

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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 incorrect 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 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.

It was an editing mistake.  Nothing more.  Nobody "falsified" anything.  DUmmies are grasping at straws again.

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Re: Hannity 'Apologizes' for Falsifying Footage of Tea Bagger Rally
« Reply #1 on: November 12, 2009, 10:26:08 AM »
I'm starting to think the DUmmies are playing a tremendous part in making Hannity and Fox incredibly wealthy.
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Re: Hannity 'Apologizes' for Falsifying Footage of Tea Bagger Rally
« Reply #2 on: November 12, 2009, 10:28:49 AM »
I'm starting to think the DUmmies are playing a tremendous part in making Hannity and Fox incredibly wealthy.

Ah, gold is where you find it, after all.

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Re: Hannity 'Apologizes' for Falsifying Footage of Tea Bagger Rally
« Reply #3 on: November 12, 2009, 10:43:26 AM »
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The Daily Show busted the Fox 'News' anchor .... [for] using old footage from two months ago

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