VIDEO: Fox Issues Startling On-Air Retraction: 'Nobody Has Been Shot'

[markpkessinger]

Internal conversation at Fox News:

Exec #1: Let's see . . . things are quieting down in Baltimore. But surely we can find a way to milk this story a little more. Any ideas?

Exec #2: HEY, I KNOW! Let's make a false report of a cop shooting a fleeing African American, wait an hour to see what happens, and then retract it, claiming it was a 'mistake!'

Exec #1: Yeah, that's the ticket!

[font size=5]VIDEO: Fox Issues Startling On-Air Retraction: 'Nobody Has Been Shot'[/font]

Fox News host Shepard Smith issued a startling on-air retraction on Monday, saying the channel had "screwed up" when a reporter said an hour earlier that he'd witnessed a black man being shot while running from Baltimore police.

"What's happened is we screwed up what it sounds like," Smith said. "I can tell you one thing, Mike Tobin would never — I've been through this. Mike Tobin thought he saw somebody get shot. And there was a gun. And there was a patient on a stretcher. And there was a woman who said she saw the cops gun him down and there's gonna be violence and all the rest of that. And what we have is nothing."

"Nobody has been shot," Smith said. "No police officer pulled the trigger."

Smith said the conditions were unusual and that the news crew had made an "honest" mistake.

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[Contrary1]

1. Seriously, why bother?

It's not like any of their "news" is factual anyway.