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.
Nice going Hannity. Conservatives aren’t allowed to make mistakes, just like Christians aren’t allowed to ever commit a sin. Because the godless will jump all over both and never forget it.
Good on Sean! I guess this is one way to get the MSM to show footage of the 9/12 crowd.
all news channel do this all the time. Most time, its not an intent to mislead, but due to laziness. They just want a clip to show the event and they just grab one close to it. How many times have we seen iraq war footages where the media is talking about an incident but show war clips of ppl breaking down doors thats totally different and unrelated.
My point was that if Beck or Hannity “out” some Admin or Celeb they are dimissed.
YET Stewart attempts to “out” Hannity as what? dishonest, and gets a newspaper column written .
This was an attempt to marginalize Hannity.
I didn’t see the so called “ruse” but I’m sure Hannity will take care of the issue.
Naw He should have blamed it on Bush. ;)
I think that is likely the work of some intern, and is not the first glaring mistake I’ve seen on Fox (witness some of the dreadful spelling errors in the bottom screen scrawl).
They need to start considering some factors other than blondeness and cup size when choosing their interns.
But how could that be? The SRM told us no one showed up at the 9-12 Tea Party!
I'm so confused.
Who cares how many people were there.
The people who would normally attend these events HAVE TO WORK for a living!!!
OR it could have been one of the NYC mindset staffers who put it in and then “leaked” it.
C’mon guys, Stewart is an admitted Fake News Guy. Why would you give anything he says credibility?
ML/NJ
lol @ Jon Stwrt sitting around ringing his hands and biting his nails watching fox news all day like a maniac hoping for an innacuracy.
*shakes fist* I’ll get you someday!
SOMEDAY!
I agree.
I will be praying for her safety over the next few years.
She is one of the very few people on this planet that is capable of defeating Obama in 2012.
The democrats know that Sarah can beat Obama in 2012, and I fear that one of them may try to murder her and make it look like an accident or something.
Please be safe and extremely careful, Sarah.
My prayers are with you and your family.
Always.
Okay, fine.
How about that little sh!tstain try a little research on the communist losers at ABCNYTNPRCNNMSNBCNBC sometime?
Did he have a good laugh at that idiot Wolf Blitzer when he disgraced himself and CNN on Jeopardy?
Did he have a good laugh when that CNN witch Roesgen was forcefully shouting on behalf of Obama at a Tea Party protester this past summer?
Oh yeah, that Leibowitz guy is such a class act.
He is an extremely strong reason why I hate most of the jerks in my entire generation.
Every single sarcastic, irresponsible, snide, arrogant, egocentric, idiotic, irreligious narcissist in my generation gravitates to Leibowitz's stupid show.
Hey Sean, liberals are watching you. And they have given you the PERFECT opportunity to correct the so called record. Show them how many showed up on 9/12 and then side by side it with what followed.
Let them know what happened and you are so pleased to take the opportunity to set the record straight. And make sure you dedicate this to Jon Stewart for bringing said confusion to your attention.
Love these kind of threads....it really exposes some Freepers.
Just like Mary Mapes did for Dan Rather?
< \SARCASM>
Yeah — you can tell who values the truth, and who values nothing but partisan hackery.
Take a walk, Lib.
” Did he have a good laugh when that CNN witch Roesgen was forcefully shouting on behalf of Obama at a Tea Party protester this past summer? “
Actually, Stewart did have a segment on that. There was a thread here about it I believe.
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