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The tea party protests continued last week, as Congresswoman Michele Bachmann held an anti-health-care-reform rally on the steps of the Capitol. She estimated that 20,000-45,000 people attended the event, the Washington Post reported it was actually more like 10,000.
Initial media reports indicated the crowd size was closer to 8,000. It was all for naught because the Affordable Health Care Act of 2009 passed.
But Sean Hannity and his team did more than cover the event. They not only inflated the attendance with their words, but actually used footage from another protest this summer to make this health care rally appear bigger than it was.
Jon Stewart and his team caught this discrepancy and ran with it, pointing out neither the color of the leaves nor sky in the tacked-on video matched that of the actual event.
sources: Comedy Central and the Huffington Post
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