I don’t watch MSNBC that often, but I had a vague recollection that based on how often he gets things wrong, David Shuster apparently likes to amuse his audience by getting basic news facts spectacularly wrong, and turning spotting the error into a game, kind of like “Where’s Waldo?”

A few moments ago Shuster was discussing Kenneth Gladney, the 38-year-old African-American who says he was attacked by members of the Service Employees International Union while attempting to hand out Gadsden flags after a town-hall forum in Mehlville, Mo., Thursday night. (It seems someone took the flag’s motto, “Don’t Tread on Me,” as a dare.)

Shuster said that Gladney had “no obvious injuries” from the event, and that he had no health insurance.

From the first sentence of a St. Louis Post-Dispatch story from yesterday: “Kenneth Gladney sat in a wheelchair on Pershing Avenue Saturday, his knee bandaged . . .”

Then there is the report that Gladney is covered under his wife’s plan.

You know, if Shuster wanted to make these “Where’s Waldo?” contests harder, he would ask viewers to spot the one fact in his reports that isn’t incorrect.