(psst, if you’re reading this in the Dashboard, you’ll want to click through to see the videos. Sorry.)

Here’s Jon Stewart ripping into Hannity for faking some footage of an anti health care reform protest

And here’s Hannity’s lame excuse

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[ED NOTE: FOX, douchebags that they are, decided to yank the Hannity apology from YouTube. I couldn’t find an embeddable clip on FOX’s shitastic website, so there’s a clip from Hard Ball. Those of you who are aware of my day job may well cry CHICANERY to which I say, politely, suck it.]

Not only is Hannity’s stupid “mistakes were made” apology pass-the-buck-ism at its finest, it’s a complete and total lie. Anyone who knows anything about video production knows that it would be impossible for the false clip to “inadvertently” slip into the final production. Someone had to go into FOX News’ archive, find that clip and make the decision to add it to the video that aired. Someone had to tell that person to do it. There’s no way this was a mistake or even the act of a single individual. If anyone at FOX gave a damn about its responsibility to their viewers, the people responsible, meaning the producer and the editor, should be fired. If it was Hannity who gave the order to cut the clip that way, he should be fired, too.

Of course, the people who watch this garbage are getting exactly what they deserve: lies used to justify their own increasingly narrow and out of date worldview.