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Somebody call the Whoopsie patrol, because Charlie Rose just made a big boo-boo on PBS' clean, new carpet.

The PBS talk show host accidentally declared the death of filmmaker George Butler on his show as part of a 2008 retrospective.

The George Butler in question was actually jazz musician George Butler, the first man to sign Wynton Marsalis to a record deal. The filmmaker George Butler made the documentary Pumping Iron that helped bring Arnold Schwarzenegger to the world's eye, the silver screen and, eventually, to the California Governor's office. He may not be alive after I made that little factoid known, depending on how well our traffic is doing.

The reason how such a huge error made it to the air isn't known since Rose is one of the more careful and concise journalists on the air today. The situation, however, makes it even weirder.

Rose and Butler, the filmmaker not the musician, are actually close friends. Rose and company must have assumed the worst, however, since Butler, the guy responsible for making Schwarzenegger famous not Marsalis, was filming a documentary in Afghanistan.

Rose, of course, immediately retracted the mistaken obituary on the air last Thursday and over the phone at least three times to Butler on New Years' Day. He also welcomed him to appear back on the show in his non-dead form.