MSNBC may be obsessed with the four men arrested for trying to tamper with Sen. Mary Landrieuโs telephones, but the network says reporter David Shuster crossed the line when he attacked one of them via Twitter.
Just before leaving for New Orleans to cover the story, Shuster used a Twitter message to tell conservative filmmaker James OโKeefe โ one of the four men arrested by the FBI โ that heโs โnot a journalist,โ that he โintended to tap phonesโ and that he โwill go to prison.โ
โThe comments were inappropriate,โ an MSNBC spokesperson told POLITICO Thursday. โWe have talked to David about them.โ
Still, Shuster continues to cover the story for MSNBC. At 3 p.m. Thursday, heโs expected to interview Andrew Breitbart, who pays OโKeefe a salary and published his undercover anti-ACORN videos on his website Big Government.





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