No one has done more “reporting” on Rightwing rallies than Faux’s own Sean Hannity. The other night, The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart busted him for re-using footage from the 9/12 rally in DC, splicing it with clips from a more recent (and significantly smaller) anti-HCR rally, to back his rather outrageous claim that somewhere between 20,000 and 45,000 racist lunatics people showed up in Washington on a work day to protest health care reform.
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From HuffPo:
But Sean Hannity and his team did more than cover the event. They not only inflated the number in attendance with their words, but actually used footage from a heavily-attended protest this summer to make this health care rally appear more popular. Hannity even pointed out that this was a huge crowd for a Thursday, when the protest footage they used was from a Saturday.
Jon Stewart and his team caught this discrepancy and ran with it, pointing out neither the color of the leaves nor sky in the tacked-on video matched that of the actual footage. They went on to mock Fox by adding more video to the interview, this time from Woodstock and the movie “300.”
As for Hannity’s response? He acted just about the way I figured he would. Basically said it was an honest mistake, when in fact it was one of the most intentionally dishonest, manipulative things I’ve ever seen from Fixed “News” — and that, my fellow Moose, is really fucking saying something. What’s worse, the dirty, sniveling little sleaze waited until the very end of the show to address the issue, after much speculation and intrigue regarding how he would respond:
Question: How many years of practice do you suppose it takes to be able to lie with that big of a smug smile on your stupid fucking face?
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