Sean Hannity admits Jon Stewart was right

[bueno bob]

Fox News’ Sean Hannity Admits Jon Stewart Was Right
by James Sims
Nov 12th, 2009 | 11:44 AM | Comments 222

After being ridiculed by ‘Daily Show‘ host Jon Stewart for using outdated shots of a protest rally, Sean Hannity took his own show last night and admitted he was wrong, reports the Huffington Post.

“Although it pains me to say this, Jon Stewart, Comedy Central, he was right,” said Hannity on Fox News. “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.”

The mistake in question concerned footage of an old “Tea Party” rally being referred to by Hannity as footage of a much smaller event that took place in D.C. last week.

Hannity did find a way to lighten the mood toward the end of his apology with a tip of the hat to the ‘Daily Show.’ “I want to thank you and all your writers for watching.”

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[bueno bob]

For the record, I don't believe it was a "mistake" at all...

[jhale667]

For the record, I don't believe it was a "mistake" at all...

It's not. Nor is it the first time they've intentionally done that.

[chefcraig]

For a good laugh, here is the segment that originally aired on the Jon Stewart's Daily Show. You are free to determine how much of a "mistake" this actually was.

Video: Sean Hannity Uses Glenn Beck's Protest Footage | The Daily Show | Comedy Central (http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-november-10-2009/sean-hannity-uses-glenn-beck-s-protest-footage)

[FORD]

Hannity and FAUX probably thought their dumbass audience wouldn't notice how green the trees were in November. Teabaggers with all the same signs wouldn't have necessarily been a dead giveaway, because let's face it, these morons have no original thoughts in their empty heads. But trees just ain't full of green leaves in November, Sean. Your producers should be more careful with their file footage next time. :biggrin:

[kwame k]

Watched Jon's show on this and was amazed that these morons would even attempt to use that footage......fair and unbiased news coverage:umm:

[Nitro Express]

It just shows what lazy asses they are. The press are nothing but paid whores now. If we had the press we have today, Watergate would have never been uncovered because the reporters would be too lazy to investigate.

[FORD]

It just shows what lazy asses they are. The press are nothing but paid whores now. If we had the press we have today, Watergate would have never been uncovered because the reporters would be too lazy to investigate.

I believe Watergate was the single event that convinced the BCE and their fellow members of the extreme right corporate elite that they had to gain control of the media.

Watergate brought down Nixon, but from their perspective, they got off easy. If the media had kept digging, they would have found the Watergate trail led back to Dallas, 1963.

[Seshmeister]

And from there all the way to Pixieland where the naughty elves make up conspiracy theories all day long using their magic wangs.

[Seshmeister]

It just shows what lazy asses they are. The press are nothing but paid whores now. If we had the press we have today, Watergate would have never been uncovered because the reporters would be too lazy to investigate.

True.

Alex Jones would be screaming that the robbery was by the Illuminati dressed in Spiderman costumes based on CCTV from the Watergate which completely didn't show that.

[Big Train]

OK, nobody here really likes him and I'm not defending him. For procedure purposes, does he get partial credit for at least owning up to it and apologizing, whether you believe it was a mistake or not?

Does anyone believe Olby would have done the same? The same Olby who needs to be AT SNL to review exactly how they will mock him?

[Nitro Express]

I believe Watergate was the single event that convinced the BCE and their fellow members of the extreme right corporate elite that they had to gain control of the media.

Watergate brought down Nixon, but from their perspective, they got off easy. If the media had kept digging, they would have found the Watergate trail led back to Dallas, 1963.

Pretty much. It keeps surfacing too. Iran/Contra, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Bankers Bailout. Not only do they avoid getting prosecuted, they expand the fraud.

[Nitro Express]

But the media is totally controlled now by a few conglomerates. The only free press is the little guys on the internet and many of those guys put out disinformation. So they have managed to create so much confusion it's like going down a fucked up rabbit hole.

[Big Train]

Where was Stewart on this front?

Ratigan Apologizes for Photoshopped Palin Photos - mediabistro.com: TVNewser (http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/msnbc/ratigan_apologizes_for_photoshopped_palin_photos_1 43303.asp?c=rss)

Ratigan Apologizes for Photoshopped Palin Photos
By Kevin Allocca on Nov 16, 2009

Dylan Ratigan apologized this morning for photos that he used last week during what was intended to be a lighthearted segment about Gov. Sarah Palin.

On Friday, we noted that Ratigan aired doctored photos on "Morning Meeting" of Palin without identifying them as fakes.

Today, the host apologized saying:

I want to apologize to Gov. Palin and all our viewers. On Friday, in a very misguided attempt to have some fun in advance of Palin's upcoming book, Going Rogue, our staff mistakenly used some clearly photoshopped images of Ms. Palin without any acknowledgment, and on behalf of the show I would like to say that this was completely unacceptable. We should have never used those photos in the first place.

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[Seshmeister]

It's time Sean Hannity admitted he helped Beck kill that girl back in 1990.

[Big Train]

Olby needs to admit he was Client Number 8.

[Nickdfresh]

Fox News again accused of airing misleading video
Thu Nov 19, 3:36 pm ET

For the second time in just over a week, Fox News is coming under fire for misusing old news footage. The latest flap is leading some people to charge that the cable news network is intentionally misleading its audience, while Fox claims a "production error."

Wednesday's incident occurred when Fox News host Gregg Jarrett mentioned that a Sarah Palin appearance and book signing in Grand Rapids, Michigan had a massive turnout. As footage rolled of a smiling and waving Palin amidst a throng of fans, Jarrett noted that the former Republican vice-presidential candidate is "continuing to draw huge crowds while she's promoting her brand-new book,'' adding that the images being shown were "some of the pictures just coming in to us.... The lines earlier had formed this morning."

However, the video used in the segment was from a 2008 McCain/Palin campaign rally. In response to the minor uproar that arose after clips of Jarrett's report hit the Internet, Fox senior vice-president of news Michael Clemente issued an initial statement saying, "This was a production error in which the copy editor changed a script and didn't alert the control room to update the video."

On Thursday afternoon, Fox News issued an on-air apology delivered by host Jane Skinner:

Yesterday we told you about Sarah Palin kicking off her book tour and then we spoke to Sean Hannity about an interview that he did with former Governor Palin. When introducing the segment we showed you footage of people lining up in Michigan for a book signing that evening. In the tease before the segment, the tease to commercial, we told you how those people were already lining up to meet Palin. The problem is we didn't show you the video we were actually referencing. Instead we mistakenly aired what's called "file tape" of Sarah Palin. We didn't mean to mislead anybody in that tease. It was a mistake, and for that we apologize.

The current mishap comes on the heels of a controversy sparked last week when footage from a conservative rally held over the summer was played on "Hannity" during a segment on a more recent rally. During the clip, host Sean Hannity marveled over the large turnout for a Washington, DC protest. The Daily Show later pointed out that there seemed to be some inconsistencies with the video shown on Hannity's show, namely that the atmospheric conditions seemed to vary from shot to shot. Hannity later apologized on the air for what he called "an inadvertent mistake."

Barely a week into Palin’s blitz to promote “Going Rogue,” media coverage is becoming its own story. Fox News rival MSNBC caught heat last week for using altered images of Sarah Palin on the air, for which they later apologized. On Wednesday, Yahoo! News reported Newsweek’s defense of their latest controversial cover, which Palin herself blasted as “sexist.”

-- Brett Michael Dykes is a contributor to the Yahoo! News Blog

Print Story: Fox News again accused of airing misleading video - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_ts988/print)

[jhale667]

Another "production error"....riiiight. :rolleyes:

[kwame k]

It's not like you get "real" news there anyways......the stupid fucks that watch that equivalent of WWF news have to know it's fake.