{"id":9139,"date":"2009-11-18T16:34:58","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T23:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=9139"},"modified":"2009-11-18T16:34:58","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T23:34:58","slug":"truthiness-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=9139","title":{"rendered":"Truthiness in Action"},"content":{"rendered":"

So as you may recall, a couple weeks ago Hannity<\/i> “accidentally” used video from Glenn Beck’s 9\/12 rally to show how well-attended Rep. Michele Bachmann’s rally was. An easy mistake, of course — anybody could accidentally mistake raw footage of a recent rally with archival footage from a completely different rally two months ago.<\/p>\n

So hey, I was totally willing to buy Sean Hannity’s claim that it was a totally innocent mistake, because Fox News wouldn’t lie to further the Republican agenda. I mean, the very idea!<\/p>\n

So you can imagine just how shocked I was to discover that Fox making exactly the same sort of mistake again, this time to support Sarah Palin:<\/p>\n

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Now, it’s an easy mistake to make, confusing footage from a McCain\/Palin rally from last year with a video of a book tour that’s going on now. I mean, it’s not like there were McCain\/Palin signs in the video itself. Oh wait, there were? Damn.<\/p>\n

Maybe Fox really is more shameless than Pravda<\/i>.<\/p>\n

(Via Think Progress<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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