Chris Matthews retaped his 7PM show today after screwing up bigtime on his 5PM show. His 5PM show, which I saw live, had me wondering what the heck Matthews was talking about. He insisted that Brietbart had not edited the Sherrod tape.
I am unable to embed the video but Mediaite has a copy here:
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Today on MSNBC’s Hardball, Chris Matthews tried to debate Salon’s Joan Walsh and former Gov. Howard Dean that Andrew Breitbart’s version of the controversial Shirley Sherrod speech was completely unedited. Considering there were about 35 minutes missing from that tape, this was wrong for obvious reasons. But if you caught the 7PM rerun, you wouldn’t have seen that, because Hardball retaped the segment, this time with Matthews admitting the Breitbart version was incomplete.
In the initial live 5PM segment, the conversation between Dean, Matthews, and Walsh turned uncomfortable as Matthews repeatedly defended Breitbart’s tape as "unedited."
...probably the first time when the program has run live for only one segment, only to return to the rerun afterwards. It seems that Matthews and his crew were not willing to let history repeat itself thanks to a preplanned rerun, and on the rest of the network, MSNBC rarely, if ever, retapes segments for reasons outside of technical error– Matthews not knowing the facts on the Sherrod story is certainly not the fault of technology
Chris is usually pretty sharp on his facts but this time he was way off. Both guests Gov. Dean and Joan Walsh tried to set him straight but he argued he was right...