Hannity on Capitol rally coverage: ‘We screwed up’

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Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart, who approaches politics seriously, had called out Fox News Channel’s serious Sean Hannity for showing video of a much larger ‘tea party’’ protest conducted in Washington on Sept. 12 in talking about a much smaller Capitol rally recently.

Hannity called back Wednesday night: Stewart was right -- and Hannity uttered some presidential words in fessing up:

‘Although it pains me to say this, Jon Stewart, Comedy Central, he was right,’’ Hannity said on his show Wednesday night.

‘Now on his program last night, he mentioned that we had played some incorrect video on this program last week while talking about the Republican healthcare rally on Capitol Hill,’’ Hannity said. ‘He was correct, we screwed up.

‘We aired some video of a rally in September along with a video from the actual event. It was an inadvertent mistake, but a mistake nonetheless. So, Mr. Stewart, you were right.

‘We apologize,’’ Hannity said on air to Stewart. ‘But by the way, we want to thank you and all your writers for watching.’

-- Mark Silva, The Swamp