The Daily Background
| MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell apologizes for spreading false info about a Libby pardon
by Arlen Parsa
MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell shocked quite a few bloggers yesterday on Hardball when she said on air that polling “indicates that most people think in fact that he should be pardoned, that Scooter Libby should be pardoned.” Catch a video of her saying it here.
In fact, the exact opposite is true: an overwhelming majority of Americans don’t don’t think President Bush should give Libby a pardon (a CNN poll released Monday indicated that only 18% of Americans want Libby to get off free). Mitchell gave this statement today, apologizing:
Yesterday on Hardball, I was slated to talk about what I’d learned about several developments in both the Republican and Democratic campaigns: Fred Thompson’s “exploration” of a possible candidacy, Chuck Hagel’s decision to punt - for now, and the fuss over Hillary Clinton’s New Hampshire remarks about JFK. At the end of the conversation, I was asked a question about the public’s support of a Libby pardon. I mistakenly flipped the numbers that I had read earlier in the day and I want to correct the record. According to a CNN poll, 69 percent of those questioned oppose a pardon for Libby. Only 18 percent support it. Apologies for the unintentional error to all of you loyal Hardball viewers.
