Thursday, November 12, 2009

TDS: Stewart Catches Lie, Hannity Apologizes

A few days ago Jon Stewart noticed something peculiar about Sean Hannity's coverage of Representative and free-range cougar Michelle Bachmann's anti-health care reform rally in Washington, DC:

Caught in his lie, Hannity offered the following apology and explanation:


Now call me a cynical bastard but based on the dozens and dozens of examples of FOX News making "inadvertent" mistakes like this I doubt the veracity of Hannity's claim but at least he somewhat copped to it.

(hat tip: Doug"e")
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5 comments:

  1. one LNovember 13, 2009 at 7:13 AM

    I don't think there's any "somewhat" about it. That guy stepped up to the plate and copped to it. Most people wouldn't have addressed the allegations at all.

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  2. JBWNovember 13, 2009 at 10:10 AM

    I say "somewhat" one L because I doubt that the "mistake" was truly inadvertent.

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  3. BDNovember 13, 2009 at 2:21 PM

    That's a crapload of somewhat in Hannity's statement. Hell, they even lied about the number of attendees...

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  4. JBWNovember 13, 2009 at 2:41 PM

    Exactamundo, BD. This guy makes $20 million a year as a serial liar. I'm not apt to believe much of anything he says, no matter how conciliatory.

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  5. AnonymousNovember 18, 2009 at 5:31 PM

    Oh yeah, I definitely know that the incident was intentional on someone's part, but I will give him credit where it's due for addressing Stewart at all.

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