President Obama: Lying Liar Or Media Target?

[Playinghardball]

The reviews are in, and Obamacare is a disaster. No, it is worse than that. Obamacare is a debacle, a shambles, a wreck, a fiasco, a flop, a failure and a farce. To the media, Obamacare is such a catastrophe that mere words cannot describe it. Only comparisons can. So Obamacare is Hurricane Katrina (The New York Times), the Iraq War (“Meet the Press”), Watergate (Bill Kristol) and “the worst thing since slavery” (Dr. Ben Carson, a columnist and Fox News contributor).

A lie, however, is an intentionally false statement. An unforgivable screw-up may be unforgivable and a screw-up, but it is different than a lie. The Iraq War comparison was floated by David Gregory, host of “Meet the Press,” on Sunday. “And people will say this is like Katrina; I think it’s more like Iraq,” Gregory said.

“That was about life and death, this is not. The comparison is everybody looked at Bush through the prism of Iraq. Here, I think people are going to look at Obama through the implementation of Obamacare.” Maybe it’s just me, but I still find it difficult to compare a dismally functioning website to a war that resulted in more than 100,000 violent deaths and cost nearly a trillion dollars.

More here: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/11/barack-obama-lying-liar-or-media-target-100022.html

http://theobamadiary.com/

[ruffburr]

1. This is the beginning-

Of R/W media attacks on all things positive,They are starting with false equivalencies and will move on from there to more flagrant attacks as the elections draw closer, Anyone who believes the Main Stream Media is being blinded by bullshit.

[Fumesucker]

2. Read my lips, no gnu taxes

Lie or just typical political bullshit?

[napkinz]

4. new meme: "The GOP Is America's Katrina!"

see http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024052215

[napkinz]

5. Jon Stewart Calls 'Obama's Katrina' An 'Offensive' Nickname For Healthcare Rollout

(starting at 1 minute 30 seconds)

Several pundits have dubbed the troubled rollout of Healthcare.gov to be "Obama's Katrina," a label that Stewart found to be patently offensive and reductive. "Yes, I believe we've all seen the damning photos of the presidential flyover surveying the human suffering of the Healthcare.gov website from a safe distance," he quipped, calling back to the infamous photo of President Bush assessing the damage of Katrina from the safety of Air Force One.

"Comparing the government abdication of responsibility during Hurricane Katrina, the death of hundreds of people, the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people, to a f***ing website, is offensive," he said in response to news personalities such as Chris Wallace blasting the president's response.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/19/jon-stewart-obamas-katrina-offensive_n_4301688.html