Fox News Apologizes For Misleading Viewers With Old Clip Of Joe Biden (Video)

Martha MacCallum, co-anchor of the Fox News program "The Live Desk," apologized today after Fox News "inadvertently" used a six-month-old clip of Joe Biden talking about the economy.

The misleading segment featured splices of recent interviews with Obama administration officials discussing the state of the economy. One clip showed Joe Biden saying that the "fundamentals of the economy are strong." The Huffington Post reported yesterday that the clip of Biden was taken from a much earlier stump speech, and that he was repeating a statement John McCain made on the campaign trail.

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Comments

[elizlucinda]

Oops..Fox is not having a good day. First they have to apologize to all those totally pissed off Canadians and then they have to apologize to all those totally pissed off Biden/Obama supporters. What is the world coming to?

[sideways74]

Fox News is reprehensible.. .Check out this hatchet job. Amazing why other countries hate Americans.

http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/scarce/how-lose-friends-and-alienate-countries

[jsgaetano]

First page lie, fifteenth page apology.

Typical Gooper propaganda campaign. The conservative's playbook hasn't changed in over 60 years.

[txcowboy66]

Goebbels would be proud of fox, very proud.

[gypsysailor]

Fox News is once again down on their knees just a-huffin' and a-puffin'.

[radiojunkie]

...and Rupert can't even get it up!

[gypsysailor]

Fox News is the al Jezzera of the Western News broadcast corporations.

[vang]

bhaaa hahahaha

[Maargen]

Fox News is apologizing for misleading it's viewers now?? That is a very, very dangerous practice to start -after all there are only 24 hours in a day. If this becomes common practice, when will they find time to do the actual misleading?

[totheknee]

Set the KOOL-AID down and back away.

[Mnoriega777]

Haaah! Good comment! Faux News barely has enough time to spew their venom as it is...

[wafowler4]

haha...fairly unbalanced

[StevenevetS]

Fox News knew what they were doing. They just hope to not be caught. This was a case of deliberate misinformation tantamount to slander.

Once the poison is out, all of the heretics feel free to spread it. John McCain was on NPR yesterday repeating the lie started by Fox about what V.P. Biden had said.

The FCC should be taking action.

[KJAB]

what a puke. i wonder how many of the right wing machine drones believed that crap?

[tyrodin]

None of the drones believe it. They are trained to repeat lies and do it with pride. It's a sad slice of our society.

[DBtv]

faux is never not disingenuous.

[wwwFIXNEWSNOWorg]

Journalism malpractice - http://FixNewsNow.org has a remedy - join the fight against this filth.

[HighInfoVoter]

hmm, and in your rating scheme the news producers supply the validity ratings themselves? That will really work, Ha!

[wwwFIXNEWSNOWorg]

There isn't a perfect system, but product labeling already exists in commerce
food labeling
Movie ratings
music ratings
etc.
misuse can be followed up by FCC, fines, and other enforcement can be applied
there's no shortage of oversight
consumers plus all the watchdogs e.g. http://www.dmoz.org/News/Media/Watchdogs/ and so many more
There isn't another solution - but thanks for your interest

[Raleigh Dave]

The No SPIN Zone, yeah right

[NevaforLeadership]

I bet they were caught out. If they hadn't been caught out, the clip would have stood: inaccurate, manipulated, out of context, downright deceitful, outrageous.

Media companies and journalism schools in America, it is time to stand up and say NO MORE.