As Queensland clears up from the floods, NASA is reporting that the La Nina weather event responsible for the rain is one of the strongest on record.
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Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity’s cat fight over Sarah Palin
Fox News pundits Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity both scored interviews with Sarah Palin. Hannity’s will air first, but O’Reilly scooped him by putting a teaser of his interview on his own YouTube channel, reportedly causing Hannity to throw a “hissy fit”. Meow!
Hannity: Jon Stewart was right, we faked footage
Fox News anchor Sean Hannity has admitted to using misleading footage of an anti-health care reform rally which made the event look far more popular than it actually was, but claims it was an honest mistake.
US radio shockjock changes mind on torture after being waterboarded
US radio shockjock “Mancow” tested waterboarding to prove it isn’t torture. He lasted six seconds, and now says it’s “absolutely torture”.
Fox News’s Mad, Apocalyptic, Tearful Rising Star
Right wing tearaway Glenn Beck says he identifies with the character of Howard Beale, the unhinged fictional TV news anchorman who declares on the air that he is “mad as hell.”
Media Matters / Thursday, 12 November 2009
Fox News presenter Sean Hannity has been caught out airing misleading footage during a story about an anti-health care reform rally to make the event look far more successful than it actually was. The investigative reporter with the scoop? The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart.