I think he means that he didn’t have the right clip.

I mean, I get it. Sure, it looks like he’s a partisan hack who was trying to gaslight America for propaganda, but in his defense, he’s never actually learned to be a real journalist. Also, he was receiving a Zypodean sophonic quantum update from the council of elders when this was happening, and was wearing the wrong size human shell. Also, he wasn’t even supposed to be at work that day.