Since Fox distorts the news every day, you'd think they'd get better at doing it.

To be fair, this could have been an honest mistake of the wrong footage playing at the wrong time.

To be fair and balanced, I seriously doubt it.

Cue Jake Tapper:

Tapper: It’s escaped none of our notice that the White House has decided in the last few weeks to declare one of our sister organizations “not a news organization” and to tell the rest of us not to treat them like a news organization. Can you explain why it’s appropriate for the White House to decide that a news organization is not one?

Gibbs: Jake, we render, we render an opinion based on some of their coverage and the fairness that, the fairness of that coverage.

Tapper: But that’s a pretty sweeping declaration that they are “not a news organization.” How are they any different from, say –

Gibbs: ABC -

Tapper: ABC. MSNBC. Univision. I mean how are they any different?

Gibbs: You and I should watch sometime around 9 o’clock tonight. Or 5 o’clock this afternoon.

Tapper: I’m not talking about their opinion programming or issues you have with certain reports. I’m talking about saying thousands of individuals who work for a media organization, do not work for a “news organization” -- why is that appropriate for the White House to say?

Gibbs: That’s our opinion.

You know the response will be it was an "inadvertent error" on the part of some producer or editor.

Folks, television editing, even in the digital age isn't something where this kind of "error" is really possible without malice aforethought.

Someplace there is footage of Palin at a rally. Elsewhere there is footage of Palin at a book signing and part of that footage is absolutely certainly shots of the people on hand for the event.

No way Fox can explain that they jumped OUT of the file of footage from the book signing and just HAPPENED to put in some digits from an event a year ago.

And as I have said several times, I wish Media Matters would do some analysis on a similar situation which is all to common at FOX....listing a Republican goofball with a (D) in their Chryron on-screen ID when they have done something wrong, like getting caught wearing diapers, committing adultery or misusing campaign funds.

The study should examine how many times this kind of "inadvertent error" happened when a Republican was given a D and how many times an errant D was mistakenly labeled with an R. My guess is the numbers on each side are going to be wildly different.

Fox is deliberately distorting reality to favor right wing causes and they do it over and over and whenever they get caught in a lie, they either ignore the problem and repeat the lie, or claim it was some sort of error.

Yeah Right!!!!

Yes, as likely a "mistake" as the Hannity bit, Mark Foley (D) and Mark Sanford (D). Always "mistakes" when they are "caught".

FUX News keeps pulling this crap because they can.

Their audience loves this garbage and their advertisers like the ratings.

It would take a whole boatload of complaints to the advertisers before anything changes.

"... an honest mistake... " ? I find it hard to believe a news organization with it's reputation on the line would make a mistake like this so soon after being caught red handed. More likely the producers "honestly" think we are stupid enough to continue to give them the benefit of the doubt.

I think giving them this benefit just proves their suspicions of us are correct.

I'm sure Keith & Rachel will have a field day with this as well as Jon Stewart. Kudos to Think Progress for having the stomach to watch FOX in order to find this.

Fox News has single handedly created a run on video splice machines.

How did they just accidentally have tape from *last year* cued up and ready to go?

What can you expect from FUDGE NEWS??!!

Her book signing tonight is as white as a KKK rally. Your "Real America" folks...

It is deliberate; part of an ongoing effort to desensitize us to when news is faked. They will keep using old footage until it isn't news anymore, and then the Republican crowds that turn out for the 2010 and 2012 elections will equal the biggest crowds that any Republican has ever drawn; they may even equal the biggest crowds any Democrat has ever drawn. I think we'll be seeing a lot more of Obama 2008 campaign events.

Honest mistake? You are too generous. The people who edit these things together know exactly where their getting their clips from, the files are dated, filed in order of date, etc.

John Amato at Crooks and Liars has filed a complaint with the FCC.

http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/fox-news-airs-old-footage-2008-palin-ra

Yep. Another "mistake". From Politico:

"This was a production error in which the copy editor changed a script and didn't alert the control room to update the video,'' Michael Clemente, senior vice president of news at FOX, sad this evening. "There will be an on-air explanation during Happening Now on Thursday."

Yeah. Tell it to the FCC this time.

You'd think Fox would get tired of being caught distorting the news, and of looking like fools. But I guess not. And they must have a pretty low opinion of their viewers. They know that their base is going to swallow whatever baloney they're peddling.

She is kinda hot thu...and fox keep doing that on purpose!

AdamHart
http://www.isopurewater.com/

I don't get it. She did have a large turnout. It's not as if 3 people showed up for the signing. A lot of people were there. Wasn't Faux there, live, with a reporter? WTF...really?