Hardball's BIG Number: Did Lawrence O'Donnell Punk Chris?

It was 99, representing all of Iowa's counties visited by RICK SANTORUM. Except the picture they had up there was of TIM PAWLENTY, the candidate MSNBC political "sage" Larry-O had assured us was going to be the nominee ... that is until Timmy dropped out after finishing behind Michele Bachmann in a straw poll. So how come they had a picture of T-Paw up there? Did Lawrence have something to do with punking Chris while he's out of town promoting his book? Hmm ...