David Shuster has had to apologize, big time, on MSNBC, because Mark Finkelstein, of Newsbusters, busted him, big time. Here's the text:
On Monday evening while guest-hosting the 6 p.m. evening hour, I conducted an interview with Tennessee Republican Marsha Blackburn. The congresswoman spoke at length about a newspaper ad that criticized General Petraeus. In what I believed was an effort to examine Representative Blackburn's priorities, I then asked her to name the last soldier from her congressional district killed in Iraq.
She responded "the name of the last soldier killed in Iraq from my district, I do not know." After that response, I identified who I believed to be that fallen soldier, a Tennessean killed in Iraq last month. But according to Pentagon documents, that young man came from a town inside a neighboring congressional district, not from Representative Blackburn's, and for that, I apologize for that mistake.
It's nice that Shuster apologized, but if you follow what happened, it's clear that Shuster intended to nail Representative Marsha Blackburn, so that he, Shuster, could become a hero in the eyes of George Soros-type lefties.
For such malicious use of his journalistic power, Shuster should do more than apologize.
