Unreal! Half a day later, Chris Hayes admits 'dead body' in Ferguson wasn't really a dead body

.@chrislhayes After saying something as inflammatory as seeing "what appears to be a dead body in the middle of the street," no followup?

— C. Jay Conrod (@cjayconrod) August 18, 2014

Yes, he finally followed-up. As Twitchy reported, MSNBC’s Chris Hayes posted an inflammatory tweet with no context Sunday night. He claimed to have seen what “appears to be a dead body” on a street in Ferguson.

Person I saw laying on the ground not moving last night apparently one of the crash victims, rushed to hospital now in critical condition.

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) August 18, 2014

I'm looking at what appears to be a dead body in the middle of Chambers

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) August 18, 2014

Now, more than half a day later after the misinformation was spread and retweeted over 4,500 times, he had this to say:

Apparently there were 3 ppl involved in the crash whose aftermath I witnessed last night. NO FATALITIES per STL PD https://t.co/yf56wOemAH

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) August 18, 2014

It would be unbelievable if it wasn’t already clear that Mr. Hayes is an atrocity.

Twitter users rightly gave him the business.

@chrislhayes So was the body you saw not dead?

— Lawrence (@hairybuckeye) August 18, 2014

https://twitter.com/golfmax13/status/501413370449252352

@IcebergFive @chrislhayes @TwitchyTeam In UK, we'd call that irresponsible reporting or, more cynically, deliberate misinformation.

— Earth Mother's daughter #IAmAntifa (@wildwalkerwoman) August 18, 2014

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@chrislhayes good thing your unfounded assertion didn't get huge play.

— Ian Livingston (@islivingston) August 18, 2014

@chrislhayes Sounds like you shouldn't have described it as a "body", then – no?

— Joshua Gray (@BumpinFresh) August 18, 2014

@chrislhayes @GPollowitz Hey! Great job clarifying it the next day! Jurnalystin is hard!

— WhichWitch (@JeffersonTeaPar) August 18, 2014

https://twitter.com/BruceNV/status/501427179797114880

Hayes isn’t done, though.

https://twitter.com/NoahCRothman/status/501430266209239041
https://twitter.com/BruceNV/status/501431619727921152

We don’t. You are a beyond a joke, Mr. Hayes. You are a disgrace.

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Inflammatory! Could mace boy Chris Hayes have made a more irresponsible Ferguson tweet than THIS?