Yesterday, Fox News aired footage from the 2008 campaign trail during a segment about the crowds to see Sarah Palin on her book tour — just a week after Fox’s Sean Hannity was forced to apologize to Jon Stewart for a similar faux pas.
Fox News explained yesterday’s incident to The Swamp:
“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.”
During the short segment Wednesday, Fox played several clips that are obviously from McCain-Palin rallies last year — you can even see people holding McCain signs. While the clips played, host Gregg Jarrett said, “These are some of the pictures just coming in to us. … There’s a crowd of folks.”
Late update: Fox issues an on-air apology for the mistake.