Did Shuster Have It Right? UPDATE

The Scripps Howard story appears in today’s Memphis Commercial Appeal. Here’s what reporter Bartholomew Sullivan writes:

Shuster’s apology may have been premature. The tiny hamlet of Bon Aqua, Tenn., is where Bohannon lived in the months immediately prior to entering the Army. The Census Bureau places his home in Blackburn’s 7th Congressional District.

He lived in Bon Aqua for “close to a year” immediately prior to entering the Army, said Tonya Taylor, 35, who permitted him to stay at her house while Bohannon was dating her daughter.

Bohannon grew up, was home-schooled and was buried in McEwan, which is clearly in the 8th Congressional District of U.S. Rep. John Tanner, D-Tenn. But his last legal address was in Blackburn’s district.

The question now: how will MSNBC report this news? Will they at all? And what’s the back story to the apology Shuster delivered?

>More, from an emailer: “You’re missing the point asking if Shuster had it right! He was wrong either way, using a dead soldier in a game of gotcha is despicable and unprofessional.”

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