FOX rolls wrong video (again), heads may roll

[kpete]

Source: Chicago Tribune


FOX rolls wrong video, heads may roll
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luNheD4DGr8&feature=player_embedded
FOX executives are looking at serious disciplinary action in the control room.

by Mark Silva

FOX has done it again, and this time, once again, FOX says its misplay of the wrong crowd video was another regrettable mistake.

Today, FOX News host Gregg Jarrett was talking about Republican Sarah Palin's book tour and the crowd she is drawing at the start of it - no small turnout, with some 1,500 people lining up early this morning for a chance to get into this evening's premier book-signing for Going Rogue in Grand Rapids.

"Sarah Palin continuing to draw huge crowds while she's promoting her brand new book,'' FOX's Jarrett told his viewers. "Take a look at -- these are some of the pictures just coming into us... The lines earlier had formed this morning.''

But it turns out that Happening Now had pulled some video of something that happened last year: Displaying video today from Palin's campaign for the vice presidency, on the ticket with the GOP's Sen. John McCain - which also drew considerable crowds, as shown today in video of a smiling Palin before an adoring campaign crowd.

Read more: http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2009/11/fox_rolls_wrong_tape_heads_may.html

[MUAD_DIB]

1. FOX plays their redneck base so well.

[Kingofalldems]

2. They justifiably perceive their core audience as either idiotic or

willfully ignorant.

[tularetom]

3. Oh sure, blame some poor schmuck in the control room

I hope the guy they blame for this saved a copy of the memo from Roger Ailes telling them to use the clips that showed the huge crowds.

[annabanana]

7. ...for following ORDERS!. .

He'll get an under the table bonus for this.

[MilesColtrane]

4. They have decided that she is a useful fool.

[Th1onein]

5. They really take their base for fools, that's for sure.

It's obvious, in the clip, that that is a campaign event. I'm sure her fans took it to be the real book signing, though. Gawd.

[FatDave]

8. And why wouldn't they?

Take their base for fools, that is.

[kpete]

6. is this the dungeon?