Hannity uses bogus footage to make DC rally look bigger
Link o' the day
This one was a beautiful Daily Show moment and an example of Fox News's Sean Hannity caught deliberately lying. He's talking to Bachmann about her rally last Thursday in DC to protest against health care reform. Independent estimates put the crowd at 5-10 thousand. Of course Bachmann absurdly claims it was 20 to 45 thousand. Bachmann said it was a spontaneous, word-of-mouth rally. A prior Daily Show segment showed people talking about the dozens of buses arranged to take them to the rally. In other words, word of mouth, my ass.
But the crowd footage was the best part. Hannity switched from a shot of Thursday's rally to a crowd shot of the larger rally from September 12th and misrepresented the latter clip as being from this past Thursday. The sky went from clear to cloudy. The leaves were suddenly green again. It was blatant and pathetic.
This one was a beautiful Daily Show moment and an example of Fox News's Sean Hannity caught deliberately lying. He's talking to Bachmann about her rally last Thursday in DC to protest against health care reform. Independent estimates put the crowd at 5-10 thousand. Of course Bachmann absurdly claims it was 20 to 45 thousand. Bachmann said it was a spontaneous, word-of-mouth rally. A prior Daily Show segment showed people talking about the dozens of buses arranged to take them to the rally. In other words, word of mouth, my ass.
But the crowd footage was the best part. Hannity switched from a shot of Thursday's rally to a crowd shot of the larger rally from September 12th and misrepresented the latter clip as being from this past Thursday. The sky went from clear to cloudy. The leaves were suddenly green again. It was blatant and pathetic.
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