Tapping A Nerve
June 14, 2006 at 1:55 pm
Reporters love to catch politicians when they say something wrong. But how often do reporters turn the tables on each other — catching and publicly calling out each other in the act of misspeaking?
Hardly ever. Except for last night.
About a month ago, MBNBC’s David Shuster said on-air: “I am convinced that Karl Rove will, in fact, be indicted.”
In his piece last night on Rove not getting indicted, ABC News’ Jake Tapper included a clip of Shuster’s assertion. And on his blog, Tapper put Shuster in the second sentence, calling it a “breathless prediction” and linking to the Shuster video on the menacingly titled crooksandliars site.
Both Tapper and Shuster are, in my opinion, two of the top political reporters on TV. Both are scrappy and thorough. And both are friends. I worked closely with Shuster at “Hardball.” No dog in this dust-up. Just an interested observer.
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