Fox News apologizes for dishonest splicing of Biden clip.

[babsbunny]

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/17/fox-news-biden-fundamentals/

Yesterday, ThinkProgress noted that Fox News spliced a six-month old clip of Vice President Biden to misleadingly imply that he recently said the “fundamentals of the economy are strong.” Today, Fox News’s Martha MacCallum apologized to viewers and said it was an “inadvertent” error:

MacCALLUM: Yesterday during a segment on the recent change in tone from President Obama’s economic team, we inadvertently used a piece of video of Vice President Biden saying “the fundamentals of the economy are strong.” This video was from the campaign trail when the vice president was a candidate and was actually quoting Sen. John McCain. When we get something wrong we admit it. We did so yesterday, and for that we apologize.

Watch it:

[icnorth]

1. There is nothing,

nothing those pricks do that is inadvertent and they can take their "apology" and stick it up their ass.

[malaise]

14. Maybe Biden threatened to sue them

They sure apologized quickly.

[ColbertWatcher]

2. Damn. An apology from FOX!? That deserves a kick and rec! n/t

[flakey_foont]

3. We're so very sorry

Sorry that we got caught and called on our BS

[October]

4. They are unreal!

What liars!

[lpbk2713]

5. It wasn't just an honest mistake. They were caught red handed.

It was six months old and Biden was actually quoting McLame. How the hell could they not know that?

Lying assholes.

[ddeclue]

6. Report them the FCC. Go after their licenses

[ColbertWatcher]

9. I agree. it's nice that they apologized and everything, but ...

... this is an on-going thing with them.

[Fuzz]

7. NO WAY that was a mistake.

[blogslut]

8. "inadvertent" my fat fanny

Why is it that one of the most successful news networks on television makes so many "inadvertent" mistakes? One would think that with all that money they would hire the best copy writers and fact checkers in the business. I find it impossible to believe that anyone could run a national network that is rife with incompetence.

[icnorth]

10. Rife with incompetence

on in the case of Democrats, malicious intent.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

12. Huh? Are you saying Democrats are rife with malicious intent? Or that FOX is, when covering Dems?

[icnorth]

15. Sorry, I got so

pissed off at these assholes, my thought was not expressed clearly. Faux raison d'etre is malicious intent directed at Dems. :hi:

[blogslut]

16. I think the poster means the latter

n/t

[Jim Lane]

17. I could believe one "inadvertent" mistake, or even several, but not when there's a pattern

You write, "I find it impossible to believe that anyone could run a national network that is rife with incompetence." I'm more cynical -- I find that quite believable.

BUT: If this truly were mere incompetence, then the errors would be random. In fact, however, Fox's supposedly inadvertent errors almost always favor the right wing. The most obvious example is the frequent misidentification of indicted or scandal-plagued Republicans as Democrats.

Let's see what happens the next time a Republican elected official is found with a hooker (of either sex) in his motel room. If Fox runs the story and calls him a Republican instead of a Democrat, we can begin to consider whether standards are improving there.

[blogslut]

21. Oh, I think we're on the same page

:hi:

[fumsm]

11. Did someone not tell Hannity???????,

I was driving in wingnut country of central Ohio, and all I could find on the radio was wingnuts. Hannity was on three separate channels. I could only stomach it for a couple minutes, but I did hear him reference the Biden comment a couple of times, talking as if it were true. He mentioned nothing of the "inadvertent" error. He said he would talk more about Biden's comment tonight to prove he is a hypocrite.

Did someone not tell Hannity??????

[lpbk2713]

13. ... and speaking of incompetence.

... funny you should bring up Hannity.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[HughMoran]

18. There was NOTHING inadvertent about that viscious slander

They should be forced off the air for pulling a fucking stunt like that.

[Kansas Wyatt]

19. Hey FOX...

I still know you are a Propaganda Network for the RNC and your pundits are a bunch of ass licking jack-offs. Oh, and you contribute absolutely NOTHING good to this country. That's right... You are nothing but bullshit.

[spanone]

20. i'm a firm believer of the first amendment, but faux pushes the limits...imo

[omega minimo]

22. Maybe someday FOX will be "inadvertently" Fair and Balanced

:eyes:

[Supersedeas]

23. the best news Big Banks/Big Pharma/Big Petro/Big Insurance can splice