False Pretenses?
(Fox News) - On MSNBC Monday reporter David Shuster brought on Republican Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee supposedly to discuss the MoveOn.org ad attacking General David Petraeus.
Shuster caught the congresswoman off guard when he asked her to name the last American soldier from her district killed in Iraq. When she couldn't, Shuster took her to task at length, identifying the fallen soldier by name and demanding to know why she cared more about an ad than the lost serviceman.
But it later emerged that the soldier Shuster named did not come from Blackburn's district, but from a neighboring one. When a blogger sent Shuster an e-mail pointing this out, he got a reply saying name didn't matter because the story was about Blackburn's hypocrisy and besides, "she didn't know the name, period."
Finally, after complaints to MSNBC from Blackburn's office, Shuster read a terse and narrow apology on Wednesday night.
Shuster caught the congresswoman off guard when he asked her to name the last American soldier from her district killed in Iraq. When she couldn't, Shuster took her to task at length, identifying the fallen soldier by name and demanding to know why she cared more about an ad than the lost serviceman.
But it later emerged that the soldier Shuster named did not come from Blackburn's district, but from a neighboring one. When a blogger sent Shuster an e-mail pointing this out, he got a reply saying name didn't matter because the story was about Blackburn's hypocrisy and besides, "she didn't know the name, period."
Finally, after complaints to MSNBC from Blackburn's office, Shuster read a terse and narrow apology on Wednesday night.
posted by BP News Bureau | 7:34 AM
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