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Truthiness in Action

Posted by Jeff Fecke | November 18th, 2009

So as you may recall, a couple weeks ago Hannity “accidentally” used video from Glenn Beck’s 9/12 rally to show how well-attended Rep. Michele Bachmann’s rally was. An easy mistake, of course — anybody could accidentally mistake raw footage of a recent rally with archival footage from a completely different rally two months ago.

So hey, I was totally willing to buy Sean Hannity’s claim that it was a totally innocent mistake, because Fox News wouldn’t lie to further the Republican agenda. I mean, the very idea!

So you can imagine just how shocked I was to discover that Fox making exactly the same sort of mistake again, this time to support Sarah Palin:

Now, it’s an easy mistake to make, confusing footage from a McCain/Palin rally from last year with a video of a book tour that’s going on now. I mean, it’s not like there were McCain/Palin signs in the video itself. Oh wait, there were? Damn.

Maybe Fox really is more shameless than Pravda.

(Via Think Progress)

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2 Responses to “Truthiness in Action”

  1. RonF Writes:
    November 20th, 2009 at 6:49 am

    http://video.foxnews.com/11739702/for-that-we-apologize?category_id=c985e69916535a2170b2b18ab0ab7eb60401f9bb

    Fox News states that in the tease leading up to the report in question (which is what’s shown above, not the report itself) they erroneously matched up a file video instead of the video they referenced in the report when the actual report was aired. They state that it was a mistake, that they didn’t intend to mislead anyone and that they apologize for the error.

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  2. Jake Squid Writes:
    November 20th, 2009 at 9:36 am

    That would be convincing, Ron, if they hadn’t made the same apology many times before.

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