Fox News Apologizes For Misleading Viewers With Old Clip Of Joe Biden

[Top Cat]

Martha MacCallum, co-anchor of the Fox News program "The Live Desk," apologized today after Fox News "inadvertently" used a six-month-old clip of Joe Biden talking about the economy.

The misleading segment featured splices of recent interviews with Obama administration officials discussing the state of the economy. One clip showed Joe Biden saying that the "fundamentals of the economy are strong." The Huffington Post reported yesterday that the clip of Biden was taken from a much earlier stump speech, and that he was repeating a statement John McCain made on the campaign trail.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/17/fox-news-apologizes-for-m_n_175906.html

(Video at the above link)

(For the life of me I cannot figure out why Fox admitted their Bullshit... This is not typical behavior for them)

[polichick]

1. Good grief, they'be been "misleading viewers" for years...

...and THIS is the one that gets to them?!

[pinto]

2. "inadvertantly". Oy. At least they got called on it and had to say *something*.

:eyes: I make it a habit to have never watched the channel. It works for me.

[Top Cat]

3. Sometimes I tune in just to see how CRAZY they are....

[pinto]

7. Yeah, there's that. From what I see noted here about FOX and from talking heads that stray

onto other networks, it's pretty bizarre.

[Blue_Roses]

4. sure. yeah. whatever...

:eyes:

[Cha]

5. Why would they admit how lame they are?

"6 month old tape"?:silly:.. In their eagerness to bring down the newly elected admin.

[GentryDixon]

6. They did not mislead. They lied.

[Top Cat]

8. Thank you...

[Hutzpa]

9. A republican will always

be a Republican no matter what.... corporate loving racial baiting and such,
I ain't buying all these BS, nope, not me, good for her though busting out
the dungeon.

[Top Cat]

10. I'm sure she crawled back into the dungeon after the apology..

Not buying any of it...

[Hutzpa]

11. She can stay there

for all I care, don't care, don't wanna know. :puke: