Caitlin Dickerson, a reporter for The Atlantic, criticized a Morning Joe segment Tuesday – in which she had just participated – about the crisis at the southern border, saying the segment with hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski had “a lot of inaccuracies.”

“There were a lot of inaccuracies in a Morning Joe segment that just ended,” Dickerson tweeted Tuesday. “I only got a chance to respond to some of them and wanted to provide further clarity.”

Dickerson tweeted that it is American asylum laws which allow unaccompanied minors to request protection at the border, not President Joe Biden's policies. She also noted that Biden is reinstating some programs to help cope with the situation which had been eliminated under the leadership of President Donald Trump.

Dickerson hit on other clarifications before offering her overall criticism. "The general implication was that requesting asylum is unfair or illegal,” she said. “It’s not.”

The facts matter, and when a reporter takes the time to go on social media and back up what they said on air, it's good work. And sets a good example.

CNN’s Jake Tapper and Late Show host Stephen Colbert blasted Republican Sen. John Kennedy for comments on Tuesday as stupid and an idiot, respectively. 

The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on gun control yesterday, and Kennedy's comments made an impression. Not a good one.

“We have a lot of drunk drivers in America that kill a lot of people. We ought to try to combat that, too,” he said. “But I think what many folks on my side of the aisle are saying is that the answer is not to get rid of all sober drivers. The answer is to concentrate on the problem.”

Reacting to that clip on CNN, Tapper said with a chuckle, “I don’t even know what to say to that, it’s so stupid.”

Kennedy also remarked that the United States doesn't have a gun control problem, but “an idiot control problem,” a sentiment with which Colbert snarkily agreed.

“Oh, we definitely have an idiot control problem,” he exclaimed. “It’s people who don’t recognize that this country has long had a gun problem, John Kennedy.”

Ouch.