On Tuesday, Fox News anchor Bill Hemmer asked Ron Paul to respond to the chorus of boos that greeted news the insurgent small-government Texas congressman had won the Conservative Political Action Conference's presidential straw poll for the second year in a row. There was just one problem with Hemmer's question: The vocal chorus of boos didn't come from last week's 2011 CPAC as the network claimed; rather those boos were from the 2010 conference.

 

Paul supporters have claimed that Fox News—which some might expect to promote an establishment Republican over the anti-establishment Paul—intentionally aired the wrong footage to place Paul in a negative light against runner-up Mitt Romney.

 

Paul's spokeswoman declined to comment to The Cutline.

 

However, Fox denies any such deception. Michael Clemente, Fox's senior vice president of news, told Mediaite that "we made a mistake with some of the video we aired, and plan on issuing a correction on America's Newsroom tomorrow morning explaining exactly what happened."

 

Hemmer admitted the error on air today. "It's an honest mistake. We apologize for the error. We look forward to having Representative Paul back on our program very soon," he told viewers.

 

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Aaanddd the video:

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwo0Iyrh1Zk]YouTube - Busted:Fox News CPAC Ron Paul Video Deception[/ame]

Fair and Balanced my ass

Fox's hatred for Ron Paul is sickening. They're so damn obvious.

Let's just wait and see whether they bother with an 'explanation' in a timeslot that people actually bother to watch :D