"It really doesn't matter how President Obama divides the Afghan baby, how he splits the difference between McChrystal and Biden. Because the war has been lost," Thompson said on his radio show today.

(Barack Obama has a secret Afghan baby??!!?!??)

Ahem. Now, if Fred Thompson had heard Fred Thompson saying that the war has been lost, Fred Thompson would have been outrageously outraged to an outrageous degree. Because here's what Fred Thompson told Sean Hannity in 2007 when Harry Reid suggested that the war in Iraq had been lost…

I [Fred Thompson] asked [a former Army captain] what she thought about this. She said, "How in the world can anyone, any one of our leaders, declare war, declare that the war has been lost when we've got troops in the field? My friends are over there in the field. I know what they think about this."

And, of course, it's just like all other Americans think. The very idea that they would do this and undercut our efforts over there is unprecedented. And it's not only unprecedented; it's awful politics.

But this is different, you see, in so many ways.

When Fred Thompson tells us that the war in Afghanistan has been lost, he's making a legitimate if controversial criticism of specific decisions being made (or not made) by the Obama administration.

Whereas when Harry Reid did that, he was being a Democrat.

At the recent Bloomberg Washington Summit, President Obama's outgoing Communications Director Anita Dunn continued the ridicules of Fox News that marked her time with the administration:

She criticized Fox for using edited footage of a rally to make it appear that opposition to the president’s health-care plan was bigger than it was.

“The people who exposed this: Jon Stewart of the Daily Show on Comedy Central… That’s where you are getting fact-checking and investigative journalism these days.”

To see what real fact-checking and investigative journalism looks like, you can watch the segment in question below, followed by Jon Stewart's response to Sean Hannity's apology.

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The Daily Show airs Monday through Thursday at 11pm / 10c.

Well, obviously, an insult like this could not stand. Oh no! No standing for that kind of insult. So, Hannity let loose from both barrels on his show last night…

"Although it pains me to say this, Jon Stewart, Comedy Central, he was right," Hannity said on his show last night.

"Now on his program last night, he mentioned that we had played some inccorect video on this program last week while talking about the Republican health care rally on Capitol Hill," Hannity said. "He was correct, we screwed up.

"We aired some video of a rally in September along with a video from the actual event. It was an inadvertent mistake, but a mistake nonetheless. So, Mr. Stewart, you were right.

"We apologize, Hannity said on air to Stewart. "But by the way, we wanna thank you and all your writers for watching."

Wait, what? He… he can do that? You mean… Sean Hannity had the ability to admit that he could maybe be wrong about stuff all this time?

And he's willing to use that ability?!

I'm very, very confused. What happened to the Hannity's America we used to know. The Hannity's America we grew up in. I fear for that Hannity's America. I fear for it.

Anyway, it looks like Sean Hannity will be returning fire on his show tonight…

Fox News would not comment on the use of the video Wednesday beyond having a spokeswoman say: "Sean will address this on his show tonight."

Well, I can't wait to see what he says. This should be interesting.

It's certainly not within his nature to put an absurd spin on reality and sit there underneath that haircut pretending like he's right.

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After the jump, coverage of the election results continues with The Daily Show.

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I was wrong…

If there's one thing that could bring Keith Olbermann and Sean Hannity together (apart from the occasional CNN-bashing), it's baseball…

Olbermann wrote about the game on his MLBlog, where he said of Hannity, "And lastly, a reminder that baseball does erase boundaries. The guy I'm taking a photo of, who's taking a photo of me – we get along perfectly at the ballpark – less so during our day jobs."

Sean Hannity and Keith Olbermann: big, big Yankees fans. That pretty much says it all.

Now, if you'll excuse me, this bowl of sour grapes isn't going to eat itself.

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The Daily Show airs Monday through Thursday at 11pm / 10c.