Fox News Caught Again With Pants Down

[DearAbby]

Fox News displays old campaign footage to claim Palin is getting ‘huge crowds’ at her book signings.

This afternoon, Fox News host Gregg Jarrett proudly announced that Sarah Palin is “continuing to draw huge crowds while she’s promoting her brand new book. Take a look at — these are some of the pictures just coming into us.” But the pictures that the network chose to display on-air appeared to be old file footage of Palin rallies from the 2008 presidential campaign. Individuals in the crowd are seen holding McCain/Palin signs, and others are holding pom-poms and cheering wildly. “There’s a crowd of folks,” an enthused Jarrett observed, referring to the old footage. Watch it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luNheD4DGr8&feature=player_embedded


The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart recently caught Fox News’ Sean Hannity displaying crowd shots from a rally earlier this year to claim that a recent GOP health care protest drew a larger audience than it actually did. Hannity later acknowledged that he “screwed up.”

Link http://thinkprogress.org/2009/11/18/fox-crowd-shot-palin/

[SallyMander]

1. Bwahahahaha... send it to Jon!!!

:D

[DearAbby]

2. lol

[rfranklin]

3. It's like the Monty Python audience clapping wildly...

They used that clip again and again to end sketches.

[GreenPartyVoter]

11. Here they are

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHJmCQohYVk

[wryter2000]

4. Someone has to nail them on this shit

Good Lord, they were only caught a week or two ago.

[FightingIrish]

5. At the end of that clip there's a Teleprompter.

She must be the antiChrist.

[JuniperLea]

6. Idiots...

And they wonder why "some people" don't consider them a legitimate news organization.

They can't even be dishonest intelligently.

[SpiralHawk]

7. Fox-Pravda is such a bullshit republicon scum spigot

Ptooey

[FarLeftFist]

8. The worst part is...

Fox uses some of the oldest propaganda tricks in the book and people still fall for it. They are actually just preying on the dumb and making them feel "enlightened".

[MineralMan]

9. I, for one, do not wish to see any of the Fox mainstays

with their pants down. Who will join me in insisting that no such display be allowed?

[Cha]

10. LIARS..the first time they got caught

didn't make them stop.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

12. Another angle of that huge crowd per Fox

[DearAbby]

27. Snarf

:spray::rofl:

[luvspeas]

13. a-holes...

:rofl:

[Uncle Joe]

14. Since when did FOX "News" ever pull them up?

:shrug:

[hootinholler]

15. I'm sorry but I find the use of "Fox News" and "pants down" in the sme sentence to be offensive.

Need brain bleach now.

:rofl:

Fucking typical of them isn't it?

-Hoot

[DearAbby]

16. Can't stand the ewww factor?

:rofl:

[crim son]

17. IMO playing the same trick again is a sign of huge disrespect for their viewers.

How dare they? :eyes:

[dysfunctional press]

21. their entire existence is an insult to their viewership.

or is it the other way around?

[sohndrsmith]

18. Once: explained away as a mistake. Twice: proves the first explanation wrong.

It was a ridiculous excuse, anyway. I don't think they're fooling any thinking (or even half-thinking) person whatsoever. It's what they do and have done for years.

[jimshoes]

19. Man if that didn't remind me of the Government run

BTN (British Television Network) from the movie "V For Vendetta" Where everything that is reported is 100% state approved. The similarities are striking.

[mscuedawg]

20. CNN showed her book signing earlier and I said to my husband...

...wonder what rally coverage Fox news will use for Sarah Palin's first book signing stop....

Guess I'm on to them... :rofl:

[Kingofalldems]

22. Disruptors hate this one

So K and R.

[spanone]

23. lying about the news should be illegal...misrepresentation should not be sold as news..

how the fuck can you have a democracy with fake news?

[AspenRose]

24. I really doubt ClusterFox gives a rat's ass

The people who most need to see and hear the truth, won't. They'll stay tuned in to ClusterFox, because they preach what these people want to hear, not the truth.

So ClusterFox will continue to lie, will continue to get away with it, and people will continue to tune in.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

25. Faux "News" doesn't even have pants any more.

[UTUSN]

26. K&R #22 n/t

[Joe Chi Minh]

28. Does it ever have its pants up?

[felinetta]

29. What a coincidence. The footage involves crowd numbers for each one.