Fox News’ Sean Hannity apologized last night for using footage of a much bigger 9/12 rally during a segment about Rep. Michele Bachmann’s tea party rally at the Capitol last week — apparently in an attempt to make the tea party look much bigger than it actually was. Jon Stewart called Hannity out on the video snafu on The Daily Show earlier this week.
Hannity’s apology came at the end of his show.
“Although it pains me to say this, Jon Stewart, Comedy Central, he was right.”
Hannity continued:
Now on his program last night he mentioned that we had played some incorrect video on this program last week while talking about the Republican health care rally on Capitol Hill. He was correct. We screwed up. We aired some video of a rally in September, along with the video from the actual event. It was an inadvertent mistake, but a mistake nonetheless. So Mr. Stewart, you were right. We apologize. But by the way, I wanna thank you and all your writers for watching.
Here’s the video:
And in case you missed it, you can watch the original Daily Show video here.
