1. He's really that stupid. In which case he's too dumb to be on TV, but not on MSNBC.
2. He knew that labeling Wallace a republican would cause more harm and have more people see it than his lame ass apology. Mission accomplished, so to speak.
This was a stupid, inexcusable, historically illiterate mistake.I should have caught it and apologize for failing to. http://www.mediaite.com/tv/msnbc-mistaken-history-segregationist-george-wallace-was-a-republican/