Fox News host Sean Hannity apologized on his show Wednesday night after it was revealed by comedian Jon Stewart that the program had used archived footage of a well-attended rally and passed it off as a recent health care protest in Washington, D.C.

Hannity spent the last 30 seconds of his show addressing the controversy, giving no explanation and calling the use of two-month-old footage in a current news package “inadvertent.”

“He was correct,” Hannity said. “We screwed up.

The Fox News program used footage from a much larger Sept. 12 rally during a discussion on a health care rally from last week.

The archived footage was used to portray public outrage to the then-pending health care reform legislation in the House. The bill was passed by the House late Saturday.

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Hannity ended his program Wednesday with a message for Stewart.

“By the way, I want to thank you and all your writers for watching,” he said.