Lil’ Luke, Cub Reporter

by digby

Today’s Hardball:

Ann Kornbluth: I have two colleagues at the Post, Ezra Klein and Alec McGillis, who have been covering this really closely and they both earlier today made the point that it was hard to find the policy reasoning here behind this. You know he says it’s going to make this more expensive…

Matthews: Especially since he came out for this very proposal three months ago. Luke Russert, Tim’s son who works with NBC news now, went out and dug this story up that three months ago he came out for exactly the same thing he’s now saying is unacceptable.

Really? I’m pretty sure TPM broke that story. And Greg Sargent “dug up” that video.

So where might Matthews get the idea that Luke “dug this up himself?” Hmmm

Lieberman, caught red-handed?
Posted: Monday, December 14, 2009 5:06 PM by Domenico Montanaro

From NBC’s Luke Russert
Here’s a clip from an interview Joe Lieberman (I-CT) did with “The Connecticut Post” newspaper in September of 2009. He flat out says that he supports a Medicare buy-in for those in their 50’s and strengthening public options that already work.

Now, Lieberman is 100% against the Medicare buy-in for those 55 and older. This would seem to suggest that Liberman has flip-flopped on the issue outright. His support comes at about 1:04 into the video. (Hat tip: Greg Sargeant at the Plum Line).

I’m guessing that either the hat tip wasn’t there when Matthews read this or he doesn’t know what a hat tip means. (And the “hat tip” is misused here in any case. Luke should have credited the “digging up” to Sargent, the reporter who actually — dug it up.) Either way, building his reputation among his colleagues by taking credit for scoops that aren’t his is a very low thing to do. He should make it clear that this wasn’t his scoop.

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