They intentionally misrepresented the turnout at Palin's book rally by showing file footage of her compaign rallies-- as you can see from these two reports, complete with the original video:
mediamatters
thinkprogress
They have always lied about turnout. They lied about the turnout for the teabaggers, for Glenn Beck's march in Washington, and Hannity lied about turnout at a (anti-) health-care rally (doubling the actual figure) and had to apologize for his video "production error," even going so far as to admit on the air that The Daily Show and Jon Stewart had caught him red handed.
Click here to see the Daily Show pointing out the obvious discrepencies in the FOX video.
You have got to see this.
Hannity's on-air apology to Jon Stewart.
Boy, that must have hurt. How bad can it be when Hannity has to apologize to Stewart?
Jon's response to Hannity.
Here also is Huffington Post's story.
That makes two video-swapping, number-boosting busts within the space of two weeks. The surprising thing is they actually apologized. I bet if it was 3 years ago they wouldn't have.
Everybody knows that Fox is biased to the right, even the Obama administration. The White House Communications Director has said, "It's opinion journalism masquerading as news," and goes on to say later:
"The reality of it is that Fox News often operates almost as either the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party. And it is not ideological... what I think is fair to say about Fox, and the way we view it, is that it is more of a wing of the Republican Party."
"Obviously [the President] will go on Fox because he engages with ideological opponents. He has done that before and he will do it again... when he goes on Fox he understands he is not going on it as a news network at this point. He is going on it to debate the opposition."
"[Fox is] widely viewed as a part of the Republican Party: take their talking points and put them on the air, take their opposition research and put it on the air. And that's fine. But let's not pretend they're a news organization like CNN is."
--Anita Hill on CNN
Here is the Huffington Post's story, where she says she was not going rogue when she said this.
And the right wingers themselves know all this as well, as I have mentioned before: just check click on the "fox news" tag to see all my Fixed blogs.







