FOX Forced To Apologize On Air Over Ron Paul CPAC Video Deception !

[Immortal Technique]

Airing Date Feb.17, 2011

Yes Bill Hemmer offered up a pretty weak excuse for what they did in an interview with Ron Paul Tuesday, they claim the reason they aired the wrong clip was the two clips of the CPAC victory announcements looked to similar.
The winner (Ron Paul) was announced February 12, 2011, the FOX news report was aired Feb.15, 2011, thats 3 days apart.
Pretty hard to make that mistake.
Yes a 38 second apology, how classy.

 

[ababba]

OK but how, who, why did you make this honest mistake?

 

[paulitics]

Not buying it. Doesn't add up.

 

[Bruno]

"They looked the same, how were we to know?" So, I guess everytime someone wears the same sports coat they are confused in the newsroom? "Hey, Obama gave a speech. He was wearing a blue suit. Find some footage of him wearing a blue suit with an American flag behind him, the color of the suit and the backdrop is all that really matters."

Um.....lame!

Wish some insider would spill the beans.

 

[georgiaboy]

red handed.

 

[specsaregood]

"videotape", lol yeah like you guys used a videotape.

 

[sratiug]

They apologized but are still scared to play the tape. Pussies.

 

[sailingaway]

Actually, that was better than I expected, but I do note they:

1. Don't PLAY the difference so you can hear it; and

2. Don't point out that that guy made fun of, or at least stressed the booing [which didn't happen] and made it the subject of his questions to Ron Paul.

 

[Original_Intent]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gArUEEE1OF8

 

[FrankRep]

Fox News’ coverage of the 2011 CPAC presidential straw poll announcement was a misrepresentation of the actual events, because in the segment of this year’s event featured on Fox News’ America’s Newsroom with Martha McCallem and Bill Hemmer, rather than presenting actual footage from the 2011 event, Fox News showed the video of the results of the 2010 CPAC presidential straw poll, in which Paul was declared the victor before a crowd of disgruntled Mitt Romney supporters who loudly booed the results.​

Fox News Deceives Public and Ron Paul


Raven Clabough | The New American
17 February 2011

 

[Romulus]

f'ing Rats!

 

[Austrian Econ Disciple]

Just like their very honest mistake of not including Ron Paul in their telephone poll, but including every joe schmoe under the sun who may have scratched his ass at the thought of running in 2012 and then airing that right after Ron's win to discredit him. Hey Faux. You aren't getting away with it so easy this time.

 

[pmbug]

bullshit.

 

[georgiaboy]

Actually, that was better than I expected, but I do note they:

1. Don't PLAY the difference so you can hear it; and

2. Don't point out that that guy made fun of, or at least stressed the booing [which didn't happen] and made it the subject of his questions to Ron Paul.

same. Just having to air this mea culpa caused quite the internal ruckus and is resonating throughout the media landscape. Other media outlets' antennae will be up because of this. And the RP movement finding and sharing this evidence is causing folks to take a long second look at the man and his message.

Yet another example (Trump being another recent one) of an attempted smear backfiring. Blowback, ouch.

 

[jmdrake]

"There were audible boos in 2010 but much more cheering this time".

How about There were NO boos this time and WILD ECSTATIC CHEERING!?

 

[unklejman]

So they either kept a year old tape out, or threw a new tape in the archive..... both seem plausible...

 

[sevin]

"They looked the same, how were we to know?" So, I guess everytime someone wears the same sports coat they are confused in the newsroom? "Hey, Obama gave a speech. He was wearing a blue suit. Find some footage of him wearing a blue suit with an American flag behind him, the color of the suit and the backdrop is all that really matters."

Yeah, really. Maybe I'm giving Fox News more credit than they deserve, but I don't think they're that incompetent.

 

[kahless]

So they either kept a year old tape out, or threw a new tape in the archive..... both seem plausible...

Tapes went out years ago. The automation systems are typically all hard disk based these days. Just like anything else you can probably search by event and narrow it down by date.

I suppose a mistake is possible but considering the source I am doubtful it. You would see the list of queued jobs and see you have an older date. It could be the master control operator has a political agenda, was told to select the wrong archive or works in an political atmosphere where this is standard operating procedure (not being instructed to do so but wants to make their peers and upper echelons happy).

 

[Jeremy]

I accept their apology.

 

[Nate-ForLiberty]

who the fuck still uses video tape?