Fox News' Skinner issues apology for fake Palin crowd video
November 19, 2009 12:50 pm ET
From the November 19 edition of Fox News' Happening Now:
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Seems like Fox News is being caught more and more... That's just wrong.
What's next an Accidental Vid of Charlton Heston in "Planet of the Apes"
I guess Fox News keeps a Vid of Sarah Palin making a Presidential Campaign Speech at the Ready?
The Facts? They can be Twisted & Contorted like Grandma's Spaghetti.
Speak truth to power.
Mr. News
Blond Anchor: Fox News now takes you to a Tea Bagger rally in New York City...
VIDEO
Chuck at the foot of the Statue of Liberty: You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! g*ddamn you all to hell!
If that happened Fox News would accidentally show a Vid of King Kong.
Mr. News
Liberals will exuse anything from tax cheating WH advisors and cabinet members, to Acorn caught on tape enabling tax evasion, human trafficking, white slavery and illegal immigration, as long as it's a radical leftist perfroming the misdeed. A plausible mistake from anything or anyone conservative is considered worthy is never accepted. Hypocrisy is obviously the strong suite of liberalism.
Proof? The story about ACORN essentially came to a dead halt after the amusing little tale of the pimp and prostitute sting operation wound out. The duo entrapped a few people into saying stupid things and that was that.
Just like saying there were 700,000 people at the anti-healthcare rally instead of 7,000.
Yeah, we believe you.
That means you had the campaign footage racked up to go for the next segment. That kind of makes sense, but only if you ran the campaign footage during the segment. Did ya?
I brought up two relevant points on another thread last night - why have campaign footage for a story about a book signing, and how did all the rightwing trolls think that MMFA catching them at this mistake/deception mean that MMFA was bad?
And just a reminder, this was their excuse last night....
"This was a production error in which the copy editor changed a script and didn't alert the control room to update the video,'' Michael Clemente, senior vice president of news at FOX, sad this evening. "There will be an on-air explanation during Happening Now on Thursday."
So, which is it? Did you intend to show this video that has nothing to do with the book signing with different words, and then change the copy, but not change the video, like you said last night? Or as you say today, did you mistakenly air file footage that you never intended to show?
Both can't be true. And what we see by the changing excuses is that neither is true.
Katie Couric apologizes for doing a story about Sarah Palin with video of Pinnochio and his amazing growing nose
Anderson Cooper apologizes for doing a story on Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and Michael Savage with video of The Three Stooges
Keith Olbermann apologizes for doing a story on Dick Cheney with video of Darth Vader
Rachel Maddow apologizes for doing a story on George W. Bush with video of Gomer Pyle
Of course, all of these are fictional because the other networks are legitimate news organizations.
Either way, as I said in the original post of this story on MMFA, there would have been a font loaded into the chyron saying "FILE" or "June 2008" or some other identifier. And dmhack is correct, this footage was ON the show cart, which means they INTENDED to use the footage. So I understand why they didn't font the video on-air (b/c it was rolled during a tease), but I'm not sure why it was on the show cart if they had fresh footage.
What doesn't make sense from your accusations is the the book signing footage showed more people than the campaign rally footage did.
Liberals blogs are waging a push to have people write in to the FCC over this?
Yeesh.
Please explain why showing footage of two completely different Palin rallies like they did, with Palin miraculously changing outfits, in which neither of them can you see more than 15 people at the most, would be preferable to showing a video of the actual book signing that had crowd estimates of 1,500 - 2,000 people.
How is that deception? The only case of deception you could make is that Fox was trying to downplay the crowd size by showing the old footage.
Go back up and look at the footage Fox ran up above and then go look at their actual footage of the book signing and you'll see. You won't apologize and neither will MMFA, but maybe you'll see.
There was video from at least two different rallies, and in neither one can you count more than 15 people in the background.
The video they later showed of the book signing crowd showed far more people.
The whole narrative of this deception allegation is seriously FLAWED.
How is it an attempt to mislead by showing such few people when there were reports estimated at 1,500 to 2,000. And Jarret said they were already "lining up'. If the intent was there to mislead why would he say "lining up" when the people in the background on the campaign file footage were bunched together in a crowd? That's not lining up.
Had he not identified the footage as being brand-new, this wouldn't be an issue. But he did, inadvertent or not. And when you tell people you're presenting news, that matters.
Appology not accepted. I rather LMAO!
No wonder you watch them.
[shaking head]
suuuure you did.