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How to get a conservative to say “I’m sorry”: put your gripe on video. It worked for U.S. Rep. Steve Israel with his Minnesota counterpart, Michele Bachmann, and for cable host Jon Stewart with his opposite at Fox, Sean Hannity.
Both complaints involved Bachmann’s Nov. 5 rally against health-care reform in front of the U.S. Capitol.
Israel, of New York, used YouTube to voice his displeasure with prominent protest signs at the Bachmann event depicting Holocaust victims. A statement Bachmann released this week contains an apology of a sort.
On his TV show, Stewart took Hannity to task for inserting footage from another, larger rally into scenes from Bachmann’s event. Here’s Stewart’s take on Hannity’s sort-of apology.
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
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Comment posted November 14, 2009 @ 1:24 pm
Part of a sincere apology is to quit making such misrepresentations going forward.
What are the odds that Michele Bachmann, or Sean Hannity will, in the future,stick to the facts, not spin things until black becomes white and up falls to down?
Comment posted November 15, 2009 @ 1:04 am
Some apology. Mixing those clips like Fox did requires deliberation. They must have discussed with Bachmann that they would push the idea there were 50,000 people at her rally, so they made up the visual evidence. Getting even a tenth that many people on a weekday on short notice was plenty impressive, so why did they have to make up some ridiculous figure? And what is wrong with conservatives that they believe these provably false claims without the least effort to check them out.
Comment posted November 15, 2009 @ 1:43 pm
Apologies from these chronic liars and cheap propagandists are not accepted.
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