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On last night’s show, Jon Stewart caught Fox News agitator Sean Hannity in a blatant deception. Trying to demonstrate a turnout of “twenty-plus thousand” at a Washington rally led by Rep. Michele Bachman, the folks at Fox spliced in footage of a much larger rally that actually occurred two months earlier. It’s hard to imagine such a thing could have been done inadvertently, and I can tell you that in the newspaper industry, conscious deception of that sort would be grounds for immediate firing.
Fox officials, contacted for an explanation by the New York Times, would say only that ““Sean will address this on his show tonight.”
Personally, I won’t be watching. I don’t watch any of those shows, right or left. But what do you predict? Does Hannity apologize for the attempted deception, or does he try to bluster his way through and somehow blame Stewart for it? I’m leaning toward the second approach myself.
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jt
November 11th, 2009
4:13 pm
Jay Bookman-
As per your logic last night,
concerning your previous topic,
since the Georgia Supreme court has not ruled about the defense of the accused,
then everything is alright.
As long, or until, the supreme court gets involved, everything is legal.
jt
November 11th, 2009
4:14 pm
And constitutional.
@@
November 11th, 2009
4:17 pm
Funniest thing about all this is how Stewart, inadvertently displayed the previous masses in an attempt to burn Hannity.
Works for me!
@@
November 11th, 2009
4:22 pm
BTW, I like Stewart. Much funnier than that Colbert guy.
Hilarious, in fact.
Paul
November 11th, 2009
4:25 pm
I’ll guess it’ll be something along the lines of “we used stock footage and shouldn’t have.”
Next question: were there really 20,000+ people protesting? Did it get coverage on other networks? Which ones? How does coverage compare, with, say, a demonstration of 20,000 or more (or less) protesting the Iraq war?
Jay
November 11th, 2009
4:26 pm
Actually, JT, the Supreme Court IS involved. Deeply involved.
The case was argued this week before the Supreme Court.
And the rule requiring two experienced defense attorneys in a death-penalty case is a rule imposed by Supreme Court in previous cases as needed to meet constitutional minimums.
AmVet
November 11th, 2009
4:30 pm
Silly teabagging astro-turfers.
And Faux News’ Pretty Boy Sean does make me laugh.
You gotta love America, loons entertaining loons…
Paul
November 11th, 2009
4:31 pm
Dang, I don’t watch his show but I’m gonna have to record it.
thank heavens for fast forward…
jt
November 11th, 2009
4:31 pm
Well, that is cause for faith.
A miniscule amount.
Angry Black Man
November 11th, 2009
4:32 pm
Paul
I was thinking the same thing. Either that, or the editing guy sequenced the wrong footage when editing the montage for the story. One of these days, I’m gonna attend a Tea Party myself so I can see what all the hubbub is about.
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
November 11th, 2009
4:32 pm
and I can tell you that in the newspaper industry, conscious deception of that sort would be grounds for immediate firing.
Then you should be able to name hundreds of people fired from the Urinal but I’ll settle for a disclosure of just one.
Jay
November 11th, 2009
4:33 pm
I should note that henceforth, the words “teabagging” and “teabaggers” will put you into moderation. AmVet, you just made it under the deadline.
Pogo
November 11th, 2009
4:35 pm
Anybody noticed how flimsy our currency seems to be lately? A twenty has about the same physical consistency as a piece of toilet paper. I guess when you print so much you have to cut back on the costs where you can. Still, it feels like Mexican money to me. Doesn’t feel substantial. Hummmm.
Angry Black Man
November 11th, 2009
4:40 pm
AmV
You have to ask yourself one question, do you feel lucky, punk? Well, do ya?
Jay
November 11th, 2009
4:41 pm
April 23, 2005
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution announces the resignation of staff writer Al Levine, saying he plagiarized passages from the Daytona Beach News-Journal and the Orlando Sentinel in two articles about the Daytona 500 race.
April 29, 2006
AJC reporter Don Plummer resigned amid allegations that he used unattributed passages from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in a March 3, 2006 story about a suspended chiropractor from Pittsburgh who was convicted of cocaine possession in Cobb County, Georgia in 1993. An AJC editor discovered similarities in both articles as a follow-up story was being discussed.
AmVet
November 11th, 2009
4:41 pm
Howzat?
You know all this time, I thought it had something to do with the Boston Tea Party, but alas the Urban Dictionary disabused me of that!
Zounds! Oh well no worries JB (and ABM), you know how creative I can be when it comes to that virtual silencer.
Let my people go!
@@
November 11th, 2009
4:43 pm
ABM:
I do hope you attend a Tea Party (haven’t attended one myself) but you’re likely to run into another Angry Black Man — he’s my neighbor….I LUV HIM TO DEATH!!!
He’s been giving David Scott what for.
I make his signs for him.
Mrs. Godzilla
November 11th, 2009
4:43 pm
Hannity….he’ll bluster or maybe blame it on the help or point to the word earlier in tiny type….
Here’s something wonderful for y’all….
The Late Movies: Dogs Welcoming Home Soldiers
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/40324
Nothing Is Free
November 11th, 2009
4:43 pm
Using stock footage for a protest rally? Say it ain’t so.
But according to almost everyone here, FOX is always lying, but this gets attention from Jon Stewart and the New York Times.
So could I be right that all news channels tell the truth, but just their side of the truth?
A producer at FOX put together footage of the protests that should have had Sean’s voice over going along with it. The script might have originally been designed for Hannity to refer to the earlier protests but he was distracted by the guest on his show.
A tempest in a tea pot, but as long as the ultra-reliable comedian that most half-wits depend on for their news calls out the dogs, it must be REALLY, REALLY important.
And Jay, if an incorrect picture would mean immediate dismissal, you wouldn’t have anyone still working at the newspaper. I’m amazed that you said that.
Angry Black Man
November 11th, 2009
4:43 pm
AmV
I just didn’t want to see you wearing the scarlet “M”. I was worried about you.
Paul
November 11th, 2009
4:44 pm
ABM
Well, my elderly mom visited and believe it or not I made scones, got her some Tiptree Little Scarlett preserves (12 bucks a jar) and some clotted cream. And tea, natch.
She’d always wanted to do that, I was able and given her age didn’t want any regrets. Nice party.
Let us know how the Taxed Enough Already version is.
BTW – I’ll wager a bunch of those attending don’t pay nearly as much in Fed taxes as they think they do – that’d be a great question for a reporter, eh?
AmVet
November 11th, 2009
4:45 pm
I guess in retrospect, it makes sense.
Why would those BushCo dolts protest against taxation without representation after King George the Socialist bailed out those Wall Street cronies of his last September?
Silly teafloggers…
Angry Black Man
November 11th, 2009
4:45 pm
@@
I’ve given it serious thought. I’m just curious about the different people there and their motivations.
Soothsayer
November 11th, 2009
4:47 pm
Pollution in China
You know me, never on topic. I guarantee you find this interesting if not disturbing.
jasper
November 11th, 2009
4:48 pm
My guess is that Hannity will yuk it off and say it was done on purpose to test how closely the left is watching and that he must be doing a great job if they’re watching him like that. Then he’ll muse mischievously about all the stuff he’s gotten away with. Then he’ll start in on Rev. Wright again.
Why I like to read books at night.
getalife
November 11th, 2009
4:50 pm
Clinton to Dems: “The reason the tea-bag-gers are so inflamed is because we are winning”
Moderate that.
Geez.
Bruno
November 11th, 2009
4:50 pm
From the previous thread:
“The rights of these health care freeloaders end when they begin to impinge on mine. I’m sick of hearing from these paper libertarians who think they can sock me if they happen to need hospital care. If it takes a fine to force them to buy health insurance, then so be it. At least they’ll be paying something.”
Jay attempted to use the same argument a few months ago, and like you, failed to provide any data to bolster the claim. Here’s a link which shows that only 5% of all hospital inpatient discharges were due to the “uninsured”:
http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/full/22/6/143
Gerald
November 11th, 2009
4:50 pm
” I don’t watch any of those shows, right or left.”
How disgusting. Yet another attempt by the pro-gay marriage, pro-abortion, pro-tax, pro-social program, pro-environmentalist, anti-gun, Bookman to peddle the “I’m a moderate, not a liberal” line. I wonder how long it’s going to be before another “I used to be a Republican! Really I did!” comment from this guy. If he and Cynthia Tucker were to be honest about their left-liberal convictions, I wouldn’t mind one bit. After all, it is the op-ed page for a liberal paper. But it is their “we are moderates!” nonsense that is revolting. Like being to the right of the Marxist lunatic fringe makes you a moderate. Well gee, since Ronald Reagan and John Ashcroft aren’t avowed segregationists, that makes them moderates too, right?
Just wait till the “moderate” Bookman (and his friendship in “moderation” Tucker) equate Islamic jihadist terrorists to Baptists. For the millionth time.
Nothing Is Free
November 11th, 2009
4:51 pm
Did anyone see CNN referring to the armed white people that showed up at a rally last spring, where they had a tight shot of a man carrying an assault weapon?
CNN used that shot on every news cast they ran for the entire week, talking about the way white people were so eeevil. FOX used the same clip, except they let it continue until the videographer zoomed out and revealed that the person carrying the weapon WAS A BLACK MAN. So CNN’s NEWS DEPARTMENT purposefully edited a clip so that no one could tell that it was a Black man while going after white people for carrying weapons
I guess Jon Stewart missed that obvious lie that was used over and over again.
Once the standards that a comedian sets for FOX is carried into the mainstream, pardon me for not considering this any sort of big deal. And Jay, you KNOW it isn’t a big deal, but hey, why let the facts stand in the way of going after FOX.
@@
November 11th, 2009
4:51 pm
Well, how do? I just went back to catch Joey’s reinstated post. Looked for the one to which he was responding. Low and behold, obvious as can be, there’s half of my @@ inserted in jewcowboy’s use of the same word.
I’m all woman, jewcowboy, not half of ah…
Angry Black Man
November 11th, 2009
4:52 pm
Paul
You made scones??!!
As far as the taxes being paid, that would be a good question to ask. Personally, I have no problem with paying taxes. My problem is what the elected idiots do with my tax dollars. People who want to pay little to no taxes should be allowed to do so if they feel that way, but only if they are not allowed to access the services that other taxpayers are paying for. To appease the crowd that complains about the people not paying taxes, set a base amount that all people have to pay and then gradually adjust the rate by income.
RW-(the original)
November 11th, 2009
4:55 pm
Is the topic that were actually supposed to speculate on what Hannity will say? I’ll say the same thing I said a few floors down. If the footage is accurate he should apologize for showing it. Then he ought to get footage from protests far and wide labeling them all accurately as separate events showing how widespread this movement is.
/For those of you scoring at home my computer is touch and go at best….anybody seen any great deals on desktops, computer only would suffice.
@@
November 11th, 2009
4:56 pm
ABM:
I’d say the majority of the Tea Party Protesters are average folk. I think that may be what the elitist left holds against ‘em.
Average….just like you and I.
getalife
November 11th, 2009
4:57 pm
RW,
I was hoping you would get another and try out Win 7 for me.
Bruno
November 11th, 2009
4:57 pm
Meanwhile, Pricewaterhouse Coopers estimates that 55% of all health care dollars spent in this country are wasted:
http://www.pwc.com/us/en/healthcare/publications/the-price-of-excess.jhtml
From the article:
“Our research found that wasteful spending in the health system has been calculated at up to $1.2 trillion of the $2.2 trillion spent in the United States, more than half of all health spending. Defensive medicine, such as redundant, inappropriate or unnecessary tests and procedures, was identified as the biggest area of excess, followed by inefficient healthcare administration and the cost of care necessitated by conditions such as obesity, which can be considered preventable by lifestyle changes. PricewaterhouseCoopers’ paper classified health system inefficiencies into three “wastebaskets” that are driving up costs:”
RW-(the original)
November 11th, 2009
4:58 pm
Anybody ever seen the footage just about any outfit shows when they pretend to be showing why we shouldn’t drill in ANWR? Tell me that isn’t willful deception.
DoggoneGA
November 11th, 2009
4:58 pm
My bet: he’ll give a non-apology apology
Pogo
November 11th, 2009
4:59 pm
Jay, why stop Amvet? I mean its not like you don’t allow progressives here the liberty to call conservatives (or anyone else that doesn’t agree with them) derogratory names pretty much on a daily basis is it? I mean without name calling, where would: (1) Mrs. Godzilla (2) Amvet (3) Midori (4) Public Option, etc. etc. be? Name calling, now that is a REAL indicator of participant intelligence, isn’t it? If I have learned one thing from this blog, it is that the liberals are the most bitter and they are the ones most likely to enter into the low brow game of name calling. If you don’t believe it, keep the numbers on this blog yourself. Libs outnumber conservatives in this boorish practice 10 to 1.
Matilda
November 11th, 2009
5:00 pm
I once got flipped off while holding up a “Moms for Peace” sign during a quiet, candlelight protest. I wondered, which part merited the obscenity? Mom or Peace? People sure do have issues.
Bruno
November 11th, 2009
5:02 pm
To summarize, uninsured hospital visits accounted for 5% of inpatient discharges. Waste accounted for 55% of all health care spending. So, take a wild guess as to which of these two areas is the focus of the Democratic legislation.
RW-(the original)
November 11th, 2009
5:02 pm
getalife,
I found a desktop without an operating system for $279.00, but the salesgirl told me it would upgraded to 7 for free. I should’ve made her put it in writing but she was just too cute for me to get her into that kind of trouble.
Just sayin'
November 11th, 2009
5:03 pm
Ah yes, that bastion of news, the Jon Stewart show.
Midori
November 11th, 2009
5:04 pm
Hey Jay!! Kelly’s Heroes is on AMC!!
Pogo, AKA JC – I saw the post you addressed to me last night after I got home.
All the world loves a stooge – er, moran.
getalife
November 11th, 2009
5:05 pm
RW,
Sounds like a deal.
Got her number?
Midori
November 11th, 2009
5:05 pm
If I have learned one thing from this blog, it is that the liberals are the most bitter and they are the ones most likely to enter into the low brow game of name calling.
LOL!!!
Are you on the right blog?
jt
November 11th, 2009
5:06 pm
RW-
If I had to do it all over again, I would consider a MAC.
Nothing Is Free
November 11th, 2009
5:06 pm
RW
Everything is on Craig’s list. And as long as the Democrats are determined to make many, many, many more poor people there will always be incredible deals from people who are trying to sell everything they have to pay bills and buy food.
Hey, the democrats la-la-love poor people. That’s why they are so determined to create so many of them. It isn’t your fault that they have to sell everything. Help them out. Buy their stuff.
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
November 11th, 2009
5:08 pm
bookman- I was thinking more along the lines of when you guys ran the photoshopped multiple Iranian missile launch and the scads of “huge” protest pictures that always consists of a close up of two whackjobs standing on some city corner.
Midori
November 11th, 2009
5:09 pm
in writing but she was just too cute for me to get her into that kind of trouble
still at it I see?
Paul
November 11th, 2009
5:09 pm
Bruno
Data’s ten years old. I’d imagine the rate’s gone up some.
Is there an acceptable rate? Is five percent okay? What’s the dollar impact of five percent, given it’s a five percent sample in a system that has a gazillion dollars in costs?
NIF – Did CNN say ‘oops’?
ABM
Yeah, but I cheated. Used a mix. But it was from England, from a British food store.
They were good enough I thought ‘why bother with scratch?’ (which, ahem, I have done).
Ever had a discussion with any of those military types, (once they start complaining about people who don’t pay taxes), about the then-logical consistency of their doing away with all their tax-free allowances? And maybe taxing their Cadillac health plans?
ya gotta have a weird idea of ‘fun’ to strike down that road –
RW-(the original)
Think the end result will be more honest reporting on all networks?
your computer just hiccuped, I didn’t really write that.
Bruno
Lifestyle changes? Anyone really think a significant number of Americans’ll make lifestyle changes? LOLOLOLOL!