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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[timberdoodle]

This is a crime and should be punished and Fox should have their licence suspended for a few months.

[scottriviera]

They don't call it fixed news for nothing!

[Urbanbarbie943]

They are liars and the revel in it. I can't stand Fox LIES!

[Char59]

This was done on purpose!

[timafi]

until the next lies

[kemo5]

LOL. The damage has been done. People who saw that, probably didn't see this.

Mission accomplished losers.

Oh well... carry on with your "news".

I especially love how they give so much credibility to the King-Cheney interview. Everyone else is laughing at it.

[ThomasMc]

Fox News: All lies, all the time.

[NKR]

Its funny that they apologize over this...they use "creative" editing in their propaganda all the time.

[MYSTERIOUS]

Seriously? They do this all the time.

[dm10003]

they didn't reshow the clip with dates, which sorta plays down their whole apology.

[themederman]

Anyone that has worked in a newsroom can tell you, it would be VERY difficult to "inadvertently" edit in a clip that is six months old. Someone had to put some effort into finding that clip...no accident.

[Alterion]

"Inadvertently"

Um, yeah. Give it up Fox, you have no credibility whatsoever.

We watch for the blondes.

[Freedom55]

IT PAY$$$$ TO TELL LIES = ASK LOU DOBBS

[HWNA]

This is what happens when your station attracts right wing ideologues who don't have any sense of ethical reporting.

[haval2]

Journalism...the lost discipline at Fixed News...what a sham and its "reporters" are a joke.

[svnjewels]

The sky is falling! FOX noise said they made a mistake.

[dm10003]

she kept closing her eyes and looking down as if to disown her words. btw was this apology given just once in their 17+ hours a day newscast?