I was kind of confused becauseI was pretty sure I had read SCOTUS right and the individual mandate was upheld. I then went to MSNBC: upheld and FoxNews: Nothing. Then, I refreshed my CNN brower to read, CORRECTION: UPHELD.
Can we just take some time from bitching about or declaring our love for the decision to talk about how funny this is? I mean they literally had an entire article already prepared talking about the mandate being struck down with a picture of people celebrating. And from what I hear, Fox News did the same thing live on air.
Its days like today that I just love politics in America.
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"Dewey Defeats Truman!"
Seriously, CNN? And then everyone jumps on the bandwagon. HuffPost posted the lamest quasi-apology about how CNN was wrong to jump the gun and they followed.
Do you watch the Colbert Report? He had a hilarious segment the other night. Some moron running for Senate pretaped four different responses to the health care ruling (all equally ridiculous) and then accidentally posted them on YouTube. Watch, he'll probably get elected anyway.
I was going to say the same thing, "Dewey Defeats Truman!" :) so glad you got a screen shot. I was watching Twitter & the SCOTUS live blog at the same time, and a bunch of people were tweeting all authoritatively about how it was overturned. Those tweets magically disappeared :)
Ha! Modern technology makes it so much easier to screw up for the world to see.
That was pretty bad. Somebody got fired!
This is too funny. After reading every Steve, Joe, and Harry's well-educated opinions on Facebook today I'm glad to hear a light-hearted take on it all.
That's what happens when reporters rush to judgements and don't finish reading the first paragraph. Silly.
I cannot even imagine how absolutely mortified they were after running that article--there's definitely a certain amount of schadenfreude involved in seeing a massive news conglomerate screw the pooch so badly!
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