Today show's Kouric congratulates Matthews on "breaking" inaccurate story

The story is an elementary one to anyone who knows a thing about DeLay's past. His unscheduled gerrymandering of Texas congressional districts caused Texas' congressmen to actually flee the state in order to prevent a quorum on the measure, which would be approved on a party line vote. This prompted DeLay to ask that federal officials be dispatched to Oklahoma to round up the congressmen and escort them back to Texas.

An unethical redistricting plan that threw five Democrats out of office and remapped their districts into solid Republican strongholds, compounded by DeLay's willingness to use federal money and manpower to interfer in partisan state politics.

Quite a shocker for many, but business as usual for the disgraced Texan. But Hardball's Chris Matthews, in a Today show appearance, managed to get the lone fact in the case he cited completely wrong:

Chris Matthews falsely claimed that Rep. Tom DeLay (R-TX) -- "quite sacrificially" -- engineered a redistricting in Texas that reduced his home district to "only about a 55 percent Republican district now," in order to raise GOP percentages in other districts and strengthen the Republican majority in Congress. In fact, the congressional district that DeLay represents is 65.9 percent Republican following DeLay's redistricting plan.

If neither of these millionaire 'journalists' can get the basic facts straight before an audience of millions, why are they millionaire journalists?