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Jon Stewart busts Sean Hannity apparently playing fast and loose with video clips:

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Dude, that was one of the stupidest things you could ever possibly have done.

Some commentary:

The irony of this is that Fox didn’t need to do anything of the sort. Whether one accepts the Washington Post’s estimates of crowd size (10,000 people) or those of the organizers (25,000-40,000), the weekday rally drew an impressive number of people. Many people had to miss a few days of work to attend it.

The planners of this event had only 1 week to put it together, too. Even a few thousand people would have been a monumental accomplishment. This stunt cheapened the whole thing and made Michelle Bachmann look silly. I hope Hannity comes out with some kind of a rational explanation because he has unfortunately cast a long shadow on his own credibility (please note: this was not a Fox News broadcast, but rather a Sean Hannity broadcast). The bottom line is that our side stands proudly on truth, honesty, and integrity. Things like this are extremely detrimental, and a single incident undermines months of foundational trust.

Regardless, this is also yet another useful example of the double standards of the Left, as Laura at the Greenroom rather effectively points out:

But let’s not pretend the left really cares about the truthful use of imagery in the media. Sorry, that claim just won’t fly after:

• The use of carefully cropped photos to make Republicans and conservatives look sinister.
• Using photos with inconvenient truths like stage management and Communist symbols cropped out.
• The denigrating, sexist focus on Sarah Palin’s shoes, especially shots angled to have someone appear to be looking up her skirt.
• Years of tightly cropped photos of anti-war and pro-illegal immigration protests to make crowds seem larger or to hide the Mexican flags.
• The Obama halo photos.
• The media’s habit of passing by hundreds or thousands of sane people and zeroing in on Truthers and other whack jobs at tea party protests.
• Shamelessly edited video. To say nothing of Keith Olbermann.
• And the most damning indictment of all: the open secret of Pallywood. Instead of exposing this travesty of journalism, our media routinely uses blatantly dishonest anti-Israel imagery.

There is no excuse for what Fox News Hannity did, and I’m glad they were caught at it. I’m not aware of anyone on the right defending it. But spare me the outrageously outrageous outrage, lefties. You don’t have a leg to stand on.

Got that right.

There's my two cents.