Fair and balanced?

Somewhere in the Bible, there are four sequential words that say, "There is no God."
Surrounded with the words they are supposed to be surrounded with, that phrase has a totally different meaning.
In that vein, I find this really alarming, especially for a major news network.

Summary: Fox News' Martha MacCallum claimed that "after weeks of economic doom and gloom, the Obama administration is now singing a slightly different tune. Take a look at what was said in recent interviews this weekend." Fox News then aired clips of administration officials purportedly giving an optimistic view of the economy, which included video of Joe Biden stating: "The fundamentals of the economy are strong." However, Biden did not make those remarks during an "interview[]" over the past weekend; he made those remarks at a September 2008 campaign event in which he criticized statements by John McCain.

Every news organization should take pride in their credibility. It only reinforces Fox's perspective if its reporters and pundits tell the truth. Things like this .. well, make me want to watch C-Span or BBC or Comedy Central something.
No matter what our political leanings are, we should all condemn misleading "news" segments like this one.
Here's what Fox later had to say about it.

On Tuesday, (Martha) MacCallum said it was an honest mistake.
"We inadvertently used a piece of video of Vice-President Biden saying the 'fundamentals of the economy are strong'," she said.
"This video was from the campaign trail, when the vice-president was a candidate, and was actually quoting Senator John McCain."

Oh, and by the way, you'd probably like to see Biden's full quote, if you haven't already:

Ladies and gentlemen, I believe that's why John McCain could say with a straight face, as recently as this morning -- and this is a quote: "The fundamentals of the economy are strong." That's what John says. He says that "we've made great progress economically" in the Bush years.

I'd say even a seasoned TV producer would have to try pretty hard to find a real six-month-old quote from Biden supporting the Bush administration, but it's downright malicious to take this clip and edit it down to the point where the original meaning was completely reversed.
Somebody had to watch the whole clip to find that sentence and then edit the clip. There's almost no way to do that without being aware of the few seconds of audio and video before and after the clip.
That's why I do not believe this was inadvertent. You couldn't try to be that stupid. Sorry, Martha, but I know the Emperor is nekkid. "Wardrobe malfunction," indeed!
Dan Rather lost his job for putting a story on the air without doing enough fact checking. Jayson Blair was publicly humiliated for, well, writing fiction in a newspaper.
Et tu, Martha?