Rachel was filling in for blowhard Keith Olbermann on 'Countdown' on MSNBC on Friday, May 16th. She announced that it was the 140th anniversary of the House of Representatives voting to impeach Pres. Andrew JACKSON. Sorry, she should have said Andrew JOHNSON. I thought Rachel was an expert on US Politics??? What a goof!!!! Maybe she spotted the error on her teleprompter but read "Jackson" anyway not wanting to throw a Bill O'Reilly style tantrum.

The irony is that Chris Matthews was a guest on Countdown for that episode bemoaning historical ignorance and the use of inaccurate/absurd historical analogies in political (non)discourse in the wake of the appearance of on Hardball of the ignorant right wing blowhard radio jock who could not explain why Neville Chamberlain was considered to be the prime example of an appeaser.