Thursday, September 27, 2007

Member of the gotcha media gets gotcha'd

From the "Shenanigans" blog on Politico.com: "Looks like MSNBC correspondent David Shuster may have deprived loyal MSNBC viewers of their favorite GOP talking heads—at least for now. This week, the MSNBC reporter “sandbagged” Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) during an interview by asking her to name the last solider from her district to die in Iraq. After she couldn’t, Shuster named the solider himself and then scolded the Tennessee Republican for her hypocrisy. But it turns out that the soldier Shuster named— Pvt. Jeremy S. Bohannon,—was not from Blackburn’s district after all. The incident landed Shuster in some GOP hot water, and the newsman was forced to make an on-air apology for the incident last night. But that might not be the end of it, as irked Republican Hillers are now planning a boycott Shuster’s employer. "

Heh. We live in such a "gotcha" culture. But what goes around comes around.
Serves him right.