Hannity & Bachmann lie about rally numbers

On his Fox News show, Sean Hannity misleadingly aired video from the 9-12 March on Washington while discussing Rep. Michele Bachmann's (R-MN) much smaller November 5 anti-health care reform rally to claim that 20,000 - 45,000 plus people showed up to Bachmann's protest.

It's odd because there is a big difference between Hannity/Bachmann's numbers and the numbers put forth by the Washington Post which was maybe 10,000. I guess saying 20,000 - 45,000 sounds better than 10,000. According to MSNBC, "Three Capitol Hill police officers all guessed that the crowd numbered at about 4,000" in attendance for Bachmann's protest.

So the reliable sources like MSNBC and Washington Post estimate 4,000 - 10,000 and the made-up numbers are 20,000 - 45,000 which makes for a 10X inflation of the crowd numbers. How do you make people believe your numbers? Use video... old video with more people because no one would notice. Right!

But thank God, we have the "news media" to catch and document the patent lies that were put forth by Sean Hannity and Michele Bachman.

Hannity used video from Glenn Beck's 9-12 rallies and used them to inflate the number of participants. Who catches it? Jon Stewart and The Daily Show.

It's not really about the math. It's about using false information to advance a particular point-of-view. This is an example of Fox News deceptively using video and photos to advance a false or misleading story line.

Thanks to Comedy Central and the Daily Show staff for catching this lie.

P.S. Hannity issued an apology to the audience for his "mistake".

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Want to know when Hanshity is lying? His mouth is moving.

find it funny your source of news is the comedy central. I assume you listen to comedians to get your view points too? AHHAHHA although I do agree with you it is outrageous, these lies.

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Faux wrote:

On his Fox News show, Sean Hannity misleadingly aired video from the 9-12 March on Washington while discussing Rep. Michele Bachmann's (R-MN) much smaller November 5 anti-health care reform rally to claim that 20,000 - 45,000 plus people showed up to Bachmann's protest.
It's odd because there is a big difference between Hannity/Bachmann's numbers and the numbers put forth by the Washington Post which was maybe 10,000. I guess saying 20,000 - 45,000 sounds better than 10,000. According to MSNBC,

You lost credibility right there

And this is a surprise, coming from Fox "News?" I guess Hannity gets a pass because he's not a journalist and his show is not news but opinion, as are most Fox "News" shows. It's all targeted to the lowest common denominator because that's what delivers bigger ratings. Make no mistake: they don't serve the public. Their job is to deliver as many eyeballs to advertisers (their real custoomers) as possible and they don't care how they do it.

So tell us....what do all you Hannity bashers stand for ? Bigger government, more taxation, a usurper in the White House ?

Truly....just what do you all believe in....socialism ?

Well, accurate reporting would be nice.

Civic discourse in a constructive manner would be nice. No more "us vs. them."

Compromises in politics would be nice. Nobody ever gets everything they want.

Peace and prosperity would be super. No on socialism, but not unfettered capitalism with no oversight, either. I think we learned a lot during this recession of the consequences.

Responsible health reform. Again, not socialized or government healthcare, but something more fair and affordable. And this is going to have to be a compromise on everybody's part, because there's no way everyone is going to be happy with however it turns out.

One of the things I learned in civics class long ago was that democracy is messy, but we wouldn't want it any other way.

We didn't get to be the greatest country in the world by not adapting to change.

Let's see..Hannity acknowledges and apologizes for using the wrong footage on his clearly acknowledged commentary show, the day after Jon Stewart catches it. How soon will we see Dan Rather's apology for the fake Bush National Guard story on "60 Minutes" in 2004? He clung to it for two weeks, and only gave a grudging apology when forced to do so and the entire nation was laughing at him and CBS. And he said it was "fake but accurate." So CBS is "real news" and "not biased?"

YOU SAID IT ALL wrote:

So tell us....what do all you Hannity bashers stand for ? Bigger government, more taxation, a usurper in the White House ?
Truly....just what do you all believe in....socialism ?

Do you masturbate while you read Mein Kampf?

Johan wrote:

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Do you masturbate while you read Mein Kampf?

Do you anally stimulate yourself while listening to Hussein Obama rhetoric?

Observer1 wrote:

Let's see..Hannity acknowledges and apologizes for using the wrong footage on his clearly acknowledged commentary show, the day after Jon Stewart catches it. How soon will we see Dan Rather's apology for the fake Bush National Guard story on "60 Minutes" in 2004? He clung to it for two weeks, and only gave a grudging apology when forced to do so and the entire nation was laughing at him and CBS. And he said it was "fake but accurate." So CBS is "real news" and "not biased?"

The thing is what Rather was reporting was true he just didn`t have the original documents. It is no secret the POS was AWOL and the only reason he didn`t have to pay for it was he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth.

You are clueless if you think we are below 10% unemployment! From what I am seeing , more like 12%!!
I am a blue collar worker, who hopes the heck I got a job by the end of the year as well as most of Erie Co. and the country! Most of my job, went to Mexico and China and will NEVER return, via auto workers union who ushered it south.

hey.... let's have a OOObaaaamaaa summit!! Heck, so we can see how far our labor policies are up our arce!!
CUT THE Federal FREEK"N TAXES>>>>don't give away money.....
let the public do our thing if we had more cash to buy the wash machine, dish washer, new car (daaaa)
China just told the U.S.A. to get our financial house in order..... for chripe sakes, even our debt - anti U.S. holders can see we are screwing up and they can't stand it!!!
Neither can our taxpayers....... vote these clueless jerks out of office America!!

RFR wrote:

<quoted text>The thing is what Rather was reporting was true he just didn`t have the original documents. It is no secret the POS was AWOL and the only reason he didn`t have to pay for it was he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth.

More bullcrap from a bubba. I didn't care for Bush either, but Danny Boy Rather was and is a fricken LIAR. No wonder a stooge like you admires him. Birds of a feather flock together. In your and Danny's case, Dodo birds.

Biff wrote:

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Hussein Obama

Who's that?

Name calling and watching Hannity helps you to lose all credibility. Your words mean nothing. President Walker George had issues too! One of which will continue in the middle east for decades.......all for OIL!

Hussein Obama is your Messiah, remember. I didn't care for Bush, but for different reasons than you. I was and am against these wars. Now why the hell hasn't your man Hussein Obama brought our troops home. He's too damn busy running all over the freaking world selling this nation out. Our troops continue to die over there while this boob fiddles.

Hell gomer, our troops are being killed right here on that guys watch.

The same globalists that Bush served to start these wars are the same globalists that Obama serves. These wars will be going on all during the Hussein Obama regime, Bank on it.

maybe lou dobbs will join fox news and keep the weird-o obama camp in line if possible, with pflozzie, sap-sucker reid, and stiff hair katy from pa.......... what a bunch of groupies for obama.
even the chinese told him where to stick his "program"
i should have vote for queen hilly.

Alter Ego wrote:

Civic discourse in a constructive manner would be nice.

Great thought, but you're not gonna find it on Topix, that's for sure.

Biff wrote:

Hussein Obama is your Messiah, remember. I didn't care for Bush, he was just my butt buddy. I was and am against these wars. Now why the hell hasn't your man Hussein Obama brought our troops home. He's too damn busy running all over the freaking world selling this nation out. Our troops continue to die over there while this boob fiddles.
Hell gomer, our troops are being killed right here on that guys watch.
The same globalists that Bush served to start these wars are the same globalists that Obama serves. These wars will be going on all during the Hussein Obama regime, Bank on it.

dude, youve got issues that need to be helped by a therapist. Keep name calling and losing credibility. This country was bankrupted by an idiotic republican president who ruled with stupidity.