Posted on 11/12/2009 5:49:59 AM PST by steve-b
After the 9-12 Tea Party protest a debate emerged regarding the crowd size estimates. Organizers of the event like Glenn Beck said that over 500,000 were at the rally while more "conservative" estimates like those from the Washington D.C. Fire Department had the crowd being a much smaller 60,000-70,000. Even the lower estimate is a respectable number of people for a protest on Capitol Hill and the event certainly received a lot of coverage from all the networks....
Not surprisingly Fox News tended to support the larger of the crowd size estimates. Sean Hannity led this charge showing clips of a large protest around Capitol Hill. However as Jon Stewart points out in the video clip below Hannity was actually showing footage of the 9-12 Tea Party protest and trying to pass it off as footage of the Bachmann event....
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Hannity never said that the footage was from the Bachmann event.
If true then bad on Sean and he deserved to get caught.
Conservatives need nothing other than accuracy and truth in reporting to get their message across to all the decent folk in this country and the others will take serious notice when they figure out we’re not spinning or lying like they are.
So Hannity shows a clip of a different day where thousands of people were protesting deathcare and and Stewart’s logic is what again?
Uh, these guys can’t even get the fact that the event wasn’t organized by Beck.
I believe the correct estimate of the Tea Party protest was closer to a million, per the Capitol Police and Dept. of the Interior.
Hear hear!
FOX’s Sean Hannity To Daily Show’s Jon Stewart “You Were Right”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0bzYL2kAiU
Wow John Stewart that reknowed investigative REPORTER.
When a Dum talk show host “reports” on an issue it makes the news.
He sound have said that it was from another event. We have to be scrupulously honest and we would be trumpeting this if it happened to Olbermann.
The libs are obsessed by the numbers of people showing up to "teabag". Now they are girding their loins for Sarah's book tour next week. They're getting all wee-wee'd up about it.
FOX must demand a higher standard .... complete truth.
Just estimating like the way the left estimates. The 912 march looked like around a million from the wide shots.
Pray for America and Our Troops
On the screen it said EARLIER. As in earlier that day. There needs to be an explaination. It could have been an innocent mistake.
I doubt that Hannity even knew where the footage was from. The producers put those things together for airing and most of the time the show’s host only sees them when the viewers do.
Actually he has been one of the few lefties who has taken Obama and the liberal press to task!
Why do the libs care about the crowd sizes at either event? They ignored them anyway.
Good for Sean.
Yes, I suspect that is what happened. But we all know it comes out that Hannity was lying. If Olbermann’s producers slipped up similarly, we would be mocking Olbermann.
That is why it shouldn’t happen.
Sorry.
“Plausible Deniability” isn’t going to cover it.
It’s Sean’s show.
It has his name on it, not the producer’s.
Hold his feet to the fire in an appropriate manner.
If a lefty did this, I’d expect some outrage as well.
I love it when Conservatives take responsibility, admit mistakes, apologize and correct the problem.
Diffuses the situation in a responsible manner.
Good on him.
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