Claiming he "screwed up," Hannity "apologizes" for airing "incorrect video" of 9-12 protests while discussing Bachmann rally
November 11, 2009 10:27 pm ET
From the November 11 edition of Fox News' Hannity:
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That's InSannity.
This is not a sincere apology. The dig at the end proves that. The only thing he's sorry about is that ClusterFaux (GOPTV) got caught.
BTW, you heard that Crazy Michelle is in trouble for breaking House rules with her little rally, er . . . . press conference, didn't you? I hope it sticks.
Another day, another lie for Hannity.
Whatever. Hannity got pwned.
Believe me, Sean, they don't get paid enough. I am grateful for MMfA and The Daily Show for saving me the pain.
I didn't hear it that way, I thought he was going to the Ratings Queen move. "Sure, I'm an idiot, but you're watching me be an idiot! I must be doing something right!"
Of course , his jab is pretty ineffective. Sean was seeing the same clips as the Daily Show writers. The Comedy Central people caught the "mistake", and had to point it out to the highest rated cable "news" channel, and to the guy who uses, as one of his themes over the last year or so, the claim that "journalism is dead".
Azz handed to him, and the big floppy clown shoes put on him. The good news, Sean? Your idiot audience won't be affected, they'll believe it was a mistake, and tune in tomorrow to listen to you criticize actual journalists. Think about today the next time you're whining that the President of the United States doesn't want to appear on your clown show.
Give us a little credit here Col. Harlan,,,, this really is a big deal to me, a formal loyal Hannity and Fox follower. Not that I'm gonna immediately jump ship and give Olbermann or joke MSNBC network the time of day, but my eyes certainly are opened to this deception in basically ALL forms of media today.
He was exposed in another in a long line of lies...
It must have hurt, huh Sean??
What a worm!
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"Embolden" was another.
However, by calling this event an "inadvertant mistake" he makes the distinction between the mistakes ClusterFaux (GOPTV) makes on purpose and those it makes, well, by mistake...
The more I think about it, the more I think there is a very serious purpose behind it. Kind of like the Smothers Brothers, back in the day, the comedy is a way to get people to watch and absorb the serious message.
1 down, 999,999 left.
reach for the stars, you great american, you!
By the way...Thanx Seannie. I predicted you would apologize but also try to make a joke of it. Twenty bucks to t
ThePrince which I will send directly to ThePrinceofWheels Hot Turkey Sandwich and Fries Fund at Ritters Diner in East Liberty. (These Repubs around here are sooo slow in their thinking).
Now if Luigi Dobbio holds off until December 1 before going to Fox, another $20.00 comes my way.
A mindless post, I know. But the prince's post is the first one to which "mmmmm" is a fitting response, and I couldn't pass it up.
A better explanation would have been that the make up of the crowds were so similar you couldn't tell the raging droolers from the 9/12 dog and pony show from the droolers at the health care "news conference."
Probibly just one, and probibly not the same one everyday
The others would be buzy you know watching other sources (like MSNBC, CNN, ect) for the show
Cause you know some shows have real sources....just saying
And he had to get that last jab in didn't he? "Btw Jon, thanks for watching."
POS excuse of a human.
So they found a video that would boost their fantasies.
You'd think these people would get wise that the Internet is going to catch them with their pants down every time. They ought to have learned that in the last election. But all they did was new wrinkles on the same old lies, cheats, smears and propaganda.
I know it's because they have nothing of real substance to offer the public, but still! Saying and doing nothing would get them farther than the lowest-common-denominator tactics that failed the Republicans so royally last November.
They don't seem able to keep still, even when it would be better than any other options they have. They have to be constantly on the offensive, and that's hard to do when you have no ammo.
What still amazes me is that Fox News, Hannity and that gang, are STILL holding their journalism credentials. Isn't there at least SOME ginger left in their canons of ethics?
I think "worms" like this are going to be served a comeuppance a whole lot more in the future. With the Internet, there really is no place they can hide any more.
BTW, what IS the Republicans' posture on keeping the hands of government out of the Internet? I suppose I don't have to ask. I imagine the first sites they'll target are the fact-finding ones, like Politi-Fact. No more "Pants on Fire" - at least not for the Republicans.
1. 2 million attended the 9/12 meeting.
2. Tape and Sean indicate the 2 million is correct.
3. The 2 million is verified by Malkin.
4. Hannity shows tape of the Bachmann get-together.
5. Hannity shows footage of both events.
6. Stewart proves that Hannity lied.
7. Hannity admits, smuggly, to the ERROR(LIE) on TV.
8. Hannity shows the same fake tape again.
9-27 Since Hannity showed the 2 to 5 million people it has gone into the Con mind and has been filtered thru this process.
Conclusion, since the tape shows that 2 million instead of 20,000 attended the Bachmann party, it is obvious that at least 10+ million were at the 9/12 Party.
We have to give hannity credit for one thing though - he did admit it and apologize. That is WAAAAAY more than I thought he was going to do which was just ignore it and move on. I mean how many of hannity's loyal base could their possibly be that also frequents the daily show? Im going to go out on a limb and say if you are watching hannity to get your news and not for the laughs, you have never seen the daily show in your life or at least no on purpose.
As an aside, I can accept over-the-top, bald-face lying in my images... I'm a filmmaker, dammit! But in the news? Then to lie on top of a lie! For shame...
I don't think anyone does. This is just another example of Fox News having lost all credibility. Even the far-right defenders won't comment on this. No one with any critical thinking skills takes Fox News serioulsy anymore. They have their very loyal, very vocal, very crazy, very niche market that they play to - and that is it.
This is why it makes so much sense for Obama's White House to conflate the idea of the Fox News venom with his Republican "just say no" adversaries. As long as he succeeds at making independent voters think of Fox News when they think of the Republican party, he has nothing to worry about politically. What is truly amazing, is that it seems as if most of the Republican leadership seems eager to allow Hannity and Beck and Limbaugh to lead them off the cliff. Palin and the tea parties cannot win national elections. Enjoy the wilderness "conservatives"!
So, you were out of the US from 2001-2009.
I could not think of a better way to describe your post. The hate is boiling over in you. Use a few more exclamation points. It makes you seem so above it all.
Now call SeannieTheSissyLyingBoy and tell him he is a Great American but is dumber than Bush.
You must be cute. Send a picture. Are you that hand-model Prajean?
Please com back, I am looking for another princess.
But in the words of the Liar Seannie, thanks for reading MMFA at least you are here.
P.S. Freeperville is the place you need to be.
P.S.S. Call me.
Hannity, you're schmuck!
There will be no big uproar. There will be some laughs. No one with any level of adult thinking takes Fox News seriously anymore. This is why they are a laughingstock. They play to their insanely partisan niche market that is very vocal and very loyal. That is it. Everyone else has been onto their game for the last two election cycles. They are a joke. And not a good joke.
maybe he there is a spark of integrity within him yet.
To ADD file footage requires you dig up the source tapes or hunt specific files down off the video server. It's not like that material is just sitting around and is "oopsy-ed" in.
The same thing happened during the 2004 elections when Karl Rove had a campaign ad edited so that the words "Democrats" and "Rats" were associated with each other. Again they said it was a simple mistake - which is an outright lie! When editing these pieces, you are looking at the same image over and over again for several days. Each item of content MUST be programmed into the piece. The 30-second piece would have been developed over a number of days, pre-assembled on another, and edited together for yet another day. Then there would have been the review in front of numerous parties.
And yet, that "mistake" happened. right...
Thanks for the detailed explanation!
I heard him on satellite radio apologize for his mistake.
WTF! Is it a start for FOX Snooze are is he just saying this while having his fingers crossed?
Personally, I still think his absolute lowpoint (and there are quite a few "stories" to choose from here) was his "interview" with a young man with very serious cancer.
The cancer patient's parents were in trouble because they had stopped conventional treatment (chemeotherapy) and he was not visiting a Mexican clinic. According to this young man the clinic had a very had success rate with a treatment the FDA wouldn't approve in the US because then the pharmaceutical companies wouldn't make any money.
Despite InSannity's frequent defence of that industry, he just went along with the whole sorry story. To the best of my knowledge there was no follow-up - no surprise there, of course...
This statement is about as incorrect as it can possibly get. Hannity implies that the writers were watching, ostensibly to listen to the information that he presents. I don't think so. I think the writers that Comedy Central were probably watching so they could point out something stupid and inane. Unfortunately, they don't have to wait very long. People are watching you Mr. Hannity because they want to point out the errors and idiotic things that you say or do. If somebody was watching Sean Hannity, it is because they're looking for items that Jon Stewart can put on the Comedy Central daily show. But they probably got a good laugh over Sean Hannity's remark.
Hannity starts up "although it pains me to say this," let's be real here Sean, if it really did pain you, you would have been scrupulous enough not to make that on purpose mistake. But let's go on, since you were caught doing something really stupid, and if as you say it appears to be a problem for you, are you going to put in place procedures to make sure that Fox news never tells any more lies, distorts stories, crops and videos to put the administration in the worst light possible, and puts up the wrong video? I don't think it pained you that much.