Brokaw's Bad Memory: Impeachment Was 'Initiated' Against Clinton

We're not looking to give Bill Clinton a hard time on a day when he's undergone heart surgery.  But our forbearance doesn't extend to Tom Brokaw when he misstates history . . .

On this evening's Hardball, responding to Chris Matthews' question as to what motivates Clinton nowadays, Brokaw surmised that he is trying to improve his place in history given that, as president, impeachment proceedings had been "initiated" against him.

Initiated? How about, "concluded." He was not convicted, but on December 19, 1998 then Pres. Bill Clinton was impeached—a fact that Brokaw, NBC Nightly News anchor at the time, surely reported.

Can you imagine the MSM field day if, say, Sarah Palin had so bungled an important fact from recent American history?