John Stewart Catches Fox Using Old Video Footage To Exaggerate Tea Party Gathering

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http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-nove...protest-footage

They make up the news, so you don't have to.

O hoooRay! You win! Fox News is dead now and will never say another conservative word. They will no loger be the nations top News channel. CNN will soar in the ratings, and even MSNBC will pick up three new viewers. I just really hope the liberals continue to be distracted by little shiney objects as they fade into irrelevence. LOL

I also want to know...if the footage of tea parties was old, how does that make a difference? You think no one believes that anymore? Does it bother you that liberals grasp at irrelevent straws?

They are easily lead.

And a child shall lead them...

a man-child

The smell of your upper lip.

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http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-nove...protest-footage

They make up the news, so you don't have to.

O hoooRay! You win! Fox News is dead now and will never say another conservative word. They will no loger be the nations top News channel. CNN will soar in the ratings, and even MSNBC will pick up three new viewers. I just really hope the liberals continue to be distracted by little shiney objects as they fade into irrelevence. LOL

I also want to know...if the footage of tea parties was old, how does that make a difference? You think no one believes that anymore? Does it bother you that liberals grasp at irrelevent straws?

They are easily lead.

And a child shall lead them...

a man-child

The smell of your upper lip.

It's all yours.

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again, reason why I never watch Fox, or CNN, or MSNBC.. all my news are given by Stewart, or Colbert.. it's sad that comedians are more objective than the news channels..

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http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-nove...protest-footage

They make up the news, so you don't have to.

Hey, at least Fox reports the news instead of reporting propaganda.. How many retractions has the other news agency have to place? more than you want to know?

Also, if they are frauds like you portray them to be, how come they are the highest rated news channel in the industry?

If you want he truth go to Fox if you can't handle the truth go somewhere else.

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http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-nove...protest-footage

They make up the news, so you don't have to.

Hey, at least Fox reports the news instead of reporting propaganda.. How many retractions has the other news agency have to place? more than you want to know?

Also, if they are frauds like you portray them to be, how come they are the highest rated news channel in the industry?

If you want he truth go to Fox if you can't handle the truth go somewhere else.

Are you kidding? Read up on media watch dog groups who have documented the numerous inaccuracies on Fox News, many of which the station has never retracted.

As for popularity = quality - using your logic, the Jonas Brothers' music is superb and McDonald's makes the best hamburgers.

No one news source owns the truth or even has the corner market on it. Fox News, just like CNN, ABC, etc. are all corporations first and foremost and their bottom line is ratings. If you're looking for any of these are your primary source for in-depth analysis of what is happening around the world, you've got bigger problems than listening to the Jonas Brothers on your iPod.

Edited November 18, 2009 by Galt's gallstones

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Fox News covered the tea parties live - and talked to lots and lots of people.

I have no idea what Jon is on about.

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They've put their foot in it again......

For the second time in just over a week, Fox News is coming under fire for misusing old news footage. The latest flap is leading some people to charge that the cable news network is intentionally misleading its audience, while Fox claims a "production error."

Wednesday's incident occurred when Fox News host Gregg Jarrett mentioned that a Sarah Palin appearance and book signing in Grand Rapids, Michigan had a massive turnout. As footage rolled of a smiling and waving Palin amidst a throng of fans, Jarrett noted that the former Republican vice-presidential candidate is "continuing to draw huge crowds while she's promoting her brand-new book,'' adding that the images being shown were "some of the pictures just coming in to us.... The lines earlier had formed this morning."

However, the video used in the segment was from a 2008 McCain/Palin campaign rally. In response to the minor uproar that arose after clips of Jarrett's report hit the Internet, Fox senior vice-president of news Michael Clemente issued an initial statement saying, "This was a production error in which the copy editor changed a script and didn't alert the control room to update the video."

On Thursday afternoon, Fox News issued an on-air apology delivered by host Jane Skinner:

Yesterday we told you about Sarah Palin kicking off her book tour and then we spoke to Sean Hannity about an interview that he did with former Governor Palin. When introducing the segment we showed you footage of people lining up in Michigan for a book signing that evening. In the tease before the segment, the tease to commercial, we told you how those people were already lining up to meet Palin. The problem is we didn't show you the video we were actually referencing. Instead we mistakenly aired what's called "file tape" of Sarah Palin. We didn't mean to mislead anybody in that tease. It was a mistake, and for that we apologize.

The current mishap comes on the heels of a controversy sparked last week when footage from a conservative rally held over the summer was played on "Hannity" during a segment on a more recent rally. During the clip, host Sean Hannity marveled over the large turnout for a Washington, DC protest. The Daily Show later pointed out that there seemed to be some inconsistencies with the video shown on Hannity's show, namely that the atmospheric conditions seemed to vary from shot to shot. Hannity later apologized on the air for what he called "an inadvertent mistake."

Barely a week into Palin’s blitz to promote “Going Rogue,” media coverage is becoming its own story. Fox News rival MSNBC caught heat last week for using altered images of Sarah Palin on the air, for which they later apologized. On Wednesday, Yahoo! News reported Newsweek’s defense of their latest controversial cover, which Palin herself blasted as “sexist.”

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All media likes to do that though. But, Fox wants their way as it shows with their Tea Party Recruiting Program.