Comedy | November 12, 2009 | 59 comments

Cold Day In Hell: Fox News' Sean Hannity Apologizes To Jon Stewart

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Fox News' Sean Hannity responded to Jon Stewart Wednesday evening after the Daily Show host called out the network for using old footage from a larger September 12, 2009 "Tea Party' protest to illustrate a much smaller health care rally on Capitol Hill last week.

Speaking directly to the camera, Hannity said that it pained him to admit it, but Stewart was correct.



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/12/hannity-jon-stewart-was-r_n_354887.html
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  • kreddig
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      kreddig  
    • Fox News has more viewers than the 2nd and 3rd place networks combined, each week. I watch a winner. A prescient winner. I laugh when i see other networks consuming half their air time to air what Fox airs. Dumb.

    • 2 years ago
  • SleepDirt
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      SleepDirt  
    • kreddig:

      It proves my hypothesis. Dumb people tend to spend most of their time passively soaking up whatever is fed them on TV. Exceptionally dumb people watch Fox.
      When there is a dumb-ass contrived fake 'news' channel that specializes in fear-mongering catering to dumb people, it reads high ratings because they are the only game in town.
      Hell, if I was a 3-toothed, inbred, southern Republican hillbilly who hates liberals and homos, it's a no-brainer what channel I'd turn to to affirm my xenophobia, ignorance and irrational belief in absurd fairy tales as somehow righteous.

      Keep in mind, even so, only 10% of even you 27 million hardcore red-state wingnuts watch Fox's most highly-rated shows nightly.

    • 2 years ago
  • artemis6
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      artemis6  
    • kreddig:

      Keep in mind these same people feel disenfranchised already . It is a hard pill to swallow when it is your own lack of communication , inquiry and interpersonal skills , that is holding you back in life . Easier to place blame elsewhere .

    • 2 years ago
  • ochreRobot
  • LadybugLady
  • coughsyup
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      coughsyup  
    • LadybugLady:

      H1N1, 911, Election '96, 2000, '04, '08, Global Warming, Mayan 2012 date.. it's all crap if your getting all news from a box of flashing colors and lights. Look at your advertisers between programs. Then the advertisements between the advertisements that's is actually called programming. If no one has told you yet to turn off the tv and also still haven't need for anxiety meds at this point then I suggest you keep watching if all it does is to make unhappy people feel good to grumble ..myself included, not solving anything bashing a knob.

    • 2 years ago
  • LadybugLady
  • 2damax
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      2damax  
    • most faux noise followers dont care about how obious the lies that faux noise tells them are. they just want someone to agree with them and keep their miserable unoccupied lives bussy. faux noise mixed real news and lies to appear real because they do not aim 4 content they aim 4 ratings.

    • 2 years ago
  • FishaHouse777
  • GossipandGab
  • erikjames
  • CalgarC
  • Conniepae
  • KSirys
  • jonathancurrent
  • Varex_Sythe
  • technic
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      technic  
    • It was an attempt to shut critics like John Stewart up. The issue is that Hannity wasn't sincere. He even had a nice sarcastic gem at the end with, "We'd like to thank you and your writers for watching." Hannity and his writers are huge douchebags.

    • 2 years ago
  • artemis6
  • biggranny
  • RaceBannon
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      RaceBannon  
    • kudos for this world changing play of events, but....

      is this what our media has boiled down to? partisan bickering and fact checking?

      Kids we're all the proletariat we should be using our media to challenge the system. The msnbc vs fox vs whatever is nothing more than divisive politics that doesn't help the fact that we need information for citizens, not just liberals, repubs, ninjas, but for everyone. We don't need a more "fair and balanced" news channel, as if the news is some kind of product, we just need real news. Where's our BBC (pbs is beggar station, not the same at all). A long time ago a coal miner from Mississippi and a gay (not openly) liberal from new york would've fought for the same interest, joined the same unions, protested the same labor conditions, and wait for guys like woodward to deliver the news in the evening... wtf happened to our society?

    • 2 years ago
  • Saladin
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      Saladin  
    • RaceBannon:

      The Sixties happened, followed by the cynical decade of the seventies and culminating in the "Reagan Revolution" of the 80's.

      The cultural consensus has been shattered, JFK/Johnson liberalism is no longer seen as viable by most of the public in the wake of the Civil Rights movement and other social uprisings.

      Now the right-wing and corporate powers at be drum up the old issues, racism, abortion, war, etc., to divide the public so they can deregulate, internationalize and otherwise expand the power base of large corporate entities.

      The U.S.A. has been systematically dismantled, intentionally, with the tacit approval of both Democrats and Republicans.

      This is what we've been reduced to, because the real enemies hide behind Reagan Conservatism and the left is too disorganized, idiotic and ineffective to mount a decent opposition.

    • 2 years ago
  • royulery
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      royulery  
    • brushing it off as insignificant makes jon stewart look nit picky to fox viewers. hannity knows his viewers will defend anything he says.

    • 2 years ago
  • s0uthc0ast
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      s0uthc0ast  
    • Hannity apologizes to a self admitted fake news guy.
      Well Sean is a better man in a minute than the collection of legacy (CNN, MSNBC, NPR, ABC,NBC,CBS) losers are in a year.

    • 2 years ago
  • Saladin
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      Saladin  
    • s0uthc0ast:

      One segment from NPR or PBS has more value than an entire month's worth of FOX programming. They report on issues no one else would dare talk about, true investigative journalism.

      And the fact that you have to resort to ad hominem tu quo que in the face of evidence of news manipulation is either a sign of desperation or outright stupidity.

    • 2 years ago
  • SleepDirt
  • bailey78
  • AndrewH13
  • twohawks
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      twohawks  
    • What crap. An apology would include telling their viewers what happened and why it happened and their original intention, and it wouldn't have taken something like Jon to bring it out, and that would not have been the main focus if there was anything honest being said. Total utter in-your-face crap.

    • 2 years ago
  • kreddig
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      kreddig  
    • twohawks:

      What you don't get is that Fox viewers watch almost everyday, so they don't miss much. Thus, it would be irrelevant for Sean to explain everything. But, it didn't stop this source from posting the background story. I don't blame others for not watching other news networks. Even the most concrete liberal can't stand to look at Olberman or Maddow talking out the side of her mouth for more than two nights a week.

    • 2 years ago
  • SleepDirt
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      SleepDirt  
    • twohawks:

      "What you don't get is that Fox viewers watch almost everyday, so they don't miss much."
      That's almost funny.
      'Fox viewers don't miss much'
      LOL Only when they are watching Fox.

    • 2 years ago
  • Sebastian_Otto
  • Euphoriatic
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      Euphoriatic  
    • Wow, what a twat. That wasn't even close to an apology. Trying to cover his ass and blame "editing"? And call it a "mistake"? Faux news should not be able to call itself a "news station", that was a very black and white example of propaganda and misinformation. Is that even legal?

    • 2 years ago
  • JulianCommongold
  • LadybugLady
  • sidewaysclyde
  • bike10
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      bike10  
    • Give me break Sean you knew what was going on. By the way you have never carried out your pledge to be Water Boarded. All talk no action.

    • 2 years ago
  • timetide
  • ninos
  • Saladin
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      Saladin  
    • ninos:

      If that was an attempt to justify the blatant fraud perpetrated by Hannity, it was pretty pathetic.

      In case you haven't noticed, users post current stories, not staff. And they link to their source for their stories whenever they post them, which comes from all over the internet. Sometimes Fox news itself is even used.

      It pains me how common this pathetic argument comes up again and again on this site.

    • 2 years ago
  • ninos
  • bailey78
  • ninos
  • ninos
  • Saladin
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      Saladin  
    • ninos:

      Herp derp

      Now you've officially used current to its full capacity ninos and defeated your own argument, congratulations.

      People can post from any website they want, and it frequently takes the form of mainstream news organizations.

      So are you gonna continue to dig your own hole? So far you've proved nothing and your only presented argument is that somehow current is equivalent to FOX when it's not even the same kind of organization.

      I'll give you credit though, it's not an easy job to be that useless.

    • 2 years ago
  • AmericanStandard
  • coughsyup
  • booksellergirl
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      booksellergirl  
    • Nixon for the first time since he's been there has to put on a jacket. I'm a bit shocked that they admitted their "mistake," but I don't believe them for one millisecond. They do this kind of sh*t all the time. They just got caught. Actually, they've gotten caught before, they just never apologized. So times they are a changin'

    • 2 years ago
  • Revelation_Machine
  • jesuswho
  • DougChristian
  • desertcat
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      desertcat  
    • Obermann, the Daily Show and others been pointing out Fox Noise lies for years now, wonder why they are owning up to this one.

    • 2 years ago
  • Varex_Sythe
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      Varex_Sythe  
    • desertcat:

      Maybe this "mistake" is just so blatantly obvious to the eye. You don't even have to look up any research to prove that they were blowing smoke up your ass. If anyone brings up the fact that the footage is obviously from two different events, the weather and coloring of the trees that are in the footage prove it.

    • 2 years ago
  • bailey78
  • irtehjoe
  • bailey78
  • SleepDirt
  • dhommes4
  • GavinTheMother
  • SleepDirt
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