Van Susteren “Sick About” B-Roll Mistake Showing Sherrod Instead Of Rep. Waters

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by Steve Krakauer | 8:58 am, August 3rd, 2010

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Some anchors take a day or two to apologize for a mistake. For technology-savvy Greta Van Susteren, it took about 40 minutes to take to her blog and apologize profusely for a five-second mistake (that she technically wasn’t involved in).

What happened? Video of Shirley Sherrod aired when it was supposed to be Rep. Maxine Waters.

During a segment on the possible ethics violations of Rep. Waters, Greta had ABC’s Rick Klein On The Record. As he talked, b-roll of Rep. Waters was supposed to air, but instead it was about five seconds of Sherrod, followed by actual footage of Waters (video below).

In a Gretawire blog post titled “OOPS…we so screwed up on this one and we are sick about it…” (that’s actually the headline), Greta writes:

We hate it when we screw up here at ON THE RECORD. Right now we are trying to console ourselves with the fact that, while we did a doozy of a mistake, at least it was unintentional, we noticed it immediately and scrambled to fix it immediately. And yes, even with telling ourselves that, we still feel horrible! (and we should feel horrible!)

What happened? I hate to tell you but we need to fess up to this one. Somehow when we were talking about Congresswoman Maxine Waters during the news show, tape went up on our screen of Shirley Sherrod and not Congresswoman Waters. Yes, a very bad mistake and a painful one for which we are very apologetic.

Obviously, when race is involved in the mistake, even honest errors take on extra meaning. But even though this was likely a screw-up by a production assistant, Van Susteren felt she had to take the lead and apologize and draw attention to the fact that the show did notice. Of course, a blog post that begins “OOPS” will end up drawing more attention to the incident.

Here’s the fairly minor, innocent mistake:

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valkyrie101

Nice, Greta. A good start for FOX.
ImJustThatDamnGood

I want to make a joke but Greta for the most part is fair. Only if it was Bill O’ The Clown…
chucken

Oh Greta why worry.Fox viewers will say they all look alike and with Fox doing saturation coverage of any black person in trouble and just skipping or glossing over troubled white people it’s easy to get the wrong scary black person.So just go back doing 20 minute informercials with Newt,Dick Morris or Karl Rove.
StewartIII

This is way funnier:
NewsBusters: MSNBC Confuses Screaming Democratic Congressman With Grizzly Bear
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/scott-whitlock/2010/07/30/msnbc-confuses-screaming-democratic-congressman-grizzly-bear
http://www.facebook.com/people/Robert-Michael-Vincent-Yuna/822703916 Robert Michael Vincent Yuna

On FOXNEWS, “they all look alike to me.” Not a surprise.
notsofast

They are one in the same- racists!
The Real Royal King

chucken said:
Oh Greta why worry.Fox viewers will say they all look alike and with Fox doing saturation coverage of any black person in trouble and just skipping or glossing over troubled white people it’s easy to get the wrong scary black person.So just go back doing 20 minute informercials with Newt,Dick Morris or Karl Rove.

I’d say you got that about right.

Robert Michael Vincent Yuna said:
On FOXNEWS, “they all look alike to me.” Not a surprise.

And, you as well.

Looks like the Breitbart lies and FOX’s promotion and propagation of them may have caused a bit of topical sensitivity at FOX. All the Marys in Heaven know that when a Republican Senator gets caught in a diaper in a House of Ill-Repute, or paying of the husband of his mistress, or a Republican Representative gets caught having cybersex with teenage male pages, or a Republican Governor dumps his wife and children for a Latin Bombshell, and FOX invariably puts a “D” after their names and positions, Greta has no problem with that. She’s no better than Gretchen van Karlson. Just less make-up and sensible male attire.

FOX:
WE NEVER GAVE NEWS A TRY.
WHY?
EASIER TO SIMPLY LIE.
ChiliPeppersFan

i gotta give props to greta for fessin up, but i agree with the comments about the fox audience.. although i don’t think that all viewers are racists, i’d be willing to bet all racists tune into fox to get their fair and balanced lies
shootfromthehip

Another in a long line of Fox “mistakes.”

Why is it that this always seems to happen on Fox?
Permatiltx

Again, another example of ideology being wrong. Look, FOX screwed up, it happens. It’s not the same as when FOX used the wrong footage of a Tea Party demonstration. That one is hard to defend even if it was a mistake. You have to commend journalistic integrity when it shows up. This is a story about admitting oneself in the wrong and working to correct it. And to be genuinely embarrassed by it, and to realistically understand what a mistake like that means to race relations. Probably could’ve been easier not to say anything, may have slipped under the rug and no one would’ve noticed. FOX took the high road. Good job. Now, let’s move on.
hneftafl

Stop making excuses for Fox News, Dan! FoxNews.com was “covering” the “Sherrod story” by noon of the same day Breitbart “broke” it.
http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

No way! Not Fox News. I mean, just because they did the same thing to John Conyers:…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2qRUAMWIyE

..doesn’t mean there’s a trend or problem over there, right?

–Cobra
ladyruth54

Contessa Brewer on MSNBC mistakes Jesse Jackson with Rev. Al Sharpton. No problems there either, right?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHwRN0agLhI
Cliffy44

As Stupid Joe would say, “It’s NOT a big (CENSORED) deal.

One of her video tape techs made a mistake and Gretta assumed full responsibility; because it was her program.

Want to discuss “mistakes”?

How about when all the Pus*y Stream Media made the mistake of forgetting to cover the black panther voter registration, that happened in my back yard. And, if you’re going to be a brain-dead obama zombie and say that it did not happen the way that FOX said that it did, I hafta be honest and say that you’re right.

I did NOT want to be on TV when this happened, BEFORE the obama regime put a kibash on the wost open and shut Federal litigation in the history of the American judicial system.

But the illegal alien / presidential impostor (Barry Soetoro, from kenya) force the Department of justice to dismiss, directly before the sentencing process of that litigation.

I said that I didn’t want to be on TV. Why?

Because, I actually saw those baboons intimidate voters.

So, hold your (CENSORED) if you’re going to say that it didn’t happen – Because it did.

There are so many other news mistakes made by the Pu*sy Stream Media that I’d need an entire URL to just mention them all.

Gretta had the decency to apologize; where no one else ever has for being complacent in O-Bozo’s felonies and misdomeanors.

SAo, if you want to point a finger of substantiated blame, in an honest way, I suggest that you look to ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and the worst of all of them, MSNBC.

And how about what Ladyruth54 says:

Contessa Brewer on MSNBC mistakes Jesse Jackson (idiot) with Rev. Al Sharpton (moron). No problems there either, right?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHwRN0agLhI

Have a nice day . . .
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http://www.facebook.com/people/Sherry-Hawkinberry/525655189 Sherry Hawkinberry

You know I find it funny that human error such as this is so important when it is about someone well known, but I have to agree with a lot of what people are saying about this. “So what” hardly anyone would of even known the mistake was made had no one brought it up. The Mansfield news paper made a horrible mistake about my family that cost me my job and all we got was a retraction on a page that no one ever even read and no apology was ever made to us. At least she gave an apology and admitted she messed up that’s more than we got.

Pinky
http://www.facebook.com/people/Kris-Tomi/100001107916637 Kris Tomi

The point is all we can do now for the president to legalize people can do and has done for many, many years, but has been made on a case by case basis. And we see this as a note, in fact, the note is clear in one place, we can do so more aggressively. In other words, more people could be legalized.
Van Susteren: Do you think the president wants amnesty? Greta Van Susteren http://usspost.com/greta-van-susteren-14143/
JLeonJr

I watch this show every chance I get. I like Greta, she is smart as a tack. She doesnt throw softballs to anyone but she is respectful, polite, and professional as well. She has interesting guests on both sides of the issues ad she doesnt seem to takes sides. That is my perception, maybe others will disagree. Ive tried to convince my ultra liberal little brother (whom I love) to be more open minded and not so hateful toward Fox News with little success. However, if he and his friends would watch Greta they may change their minds. Maybe not, but I thinks she headlines the most fair and balanced program on the air on any channel.