Shuster: Exonerated?
FishbowlDC hears that Scripps Howard has a piece set for publication tomorrow detailing how, despite MSNBC’s David Shuster’s Wednesday apology (first reported by FishbowlDC here and here) that he mistakenly accused Rep. Marsha Blackburn of failing to know the identity of the last person from her district to die in Iraq, Jeremy Bohannon was in fact from Blackburn’s district, exonerating Shuster from any error.
Developing…
Questions for tomorrow: Why did MSNBC rush Shuster to apologize? And, more importantly, who made him do so? Or did Shuster and MSNBC just not have the info (or didn’t do the research) that Scripps dug up?
Either way this is an interesting ‘Right-Wrong-Right’ back and forth not frequently seen and certainly shows the potential pitfalls of our instant news cycle.
>UPDATE:
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