Aaron Broussard stirred up a lot of controversy when he told a false tale on “Meet the Press” to cap off an angry tirade against the federal government’s response to Katrina. Broussard said that a colleague’s mother had died five days after Katrina struck. However, the colleague himself later told MSNBC that she actually died the same day Katrina struck. On Sunday he was back on MTP to respond. He insisted that his colleague’s mother died five days after the hurricane. Political Teen has the video.

After Broussard, Russert had on David Brooks, Thomas L. Friedman and Maureen Dowd, NY Times columnists all. Is it just me, or did this seem like an advertisement for TimesSelect? I’m supposed to believe it’s just a coincidence that on the same week that the NY Times puts its columnists behind a subscription wall, three of the most popular are on MTP as if to say, “Lookie… this is what you’re missing!”

Answer: Not much.

I wonder what kind of backroom wrangling went into that deal.

PLUS: As usual, RedState has the best summary of the Sunday morning shows.