Blog For MSNBC’s Last Word Apologizes For Lawrence O’Donnell Reporting Satire As Truth

One of the unfortunate things about the written word is that sometimes you are incapable of detecting sarcasm. This was the case when Lawrence O’Donnell, along with others in the media, erroneously reported as truth the few lines in Roger Simon‘s piece for POLITICO that Paul Ryan‘s nickname for Mitt Romney was “The Stench.” Last night, the blog for O’Donnell’s show posted an apology for the misreporting.

On the blog for The Last Word, it’s revealed that the show tried to book Simon for his segment, but he did not come on. They apologized for the mistake.

Had [Simon] been a guest on the show, it obviously would have been clear that his piece was not meant to be taken literally. We regret and apologize for presenting some of the quotes in Roger Simon’s piece the way we did.

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