This is quite possibly the DUMBEST CNN headline I've ever seen.

[Gravitycollapse]

I've been a critic of the Healthcare.gov rollout. Never along the way did I stop and think "fuck, man this is as bad as that time when Bush let a bunch of people die in New Orleans."

[spanone]

1. not only dumb, absurd.

how many died from the clinton blowjob or the difficult webpage?

equivalency at it's finest.

[JimboBillyBubbaBob]

2. I see the connection in one sense concerning two of those pictured,

something to do with a big blow, but not the third.

[Thor_MN]

10. Well, no one drowned in the one case...

And the one where people died, I bet he is very familiar with blow.

[JimboBillyBubbaBob]

34. Oh, well said...

...it adds yet another dimension!

[davidpdx]

3. CNN has continued to get worse

About the only good thing about it is that guy with the sunglasses on the right. His show is pretty cool.

[Art_from_Ark]

27. You still watch it?

I gave up on it around 1997 or so.

[davidpdx]

30. Not much of an alternative for live news from the US from Korea

Maybe there are more stations over there in Japan. I don't watch it often and it often depends what's on. The amount of time varies from none to an hour a day. With the coverage of the aftermath of the typhoon in The Philippines I've watched it a bit more. The night time news from Hong Kong is less bias then that coming from the US.

[Thinkingabout]

4. The GOP is desperately trying to rewrite history and help the post turtle. Has all

Forgotten "Mission Accomplished", another lie told to the American public. It was only accomplished on the sign. I guess Bushy Boy was expecting a ticker tape parade.

[Dawson Leery]

5. There is a reason CNN cannot break 100k in the key 24-50 age demographic.

[JI7]

13. SE Cupp was supposed to fix that

but seems like they have gone down even more .

[Baitball Blogger]

6. One of these things is not like the others...

One of these things just doesn't belong. Can you figure it out before I finish this song:

[BlancheSplanchnik]

14. ah yes the nursery school rhyme.

Guess it's too much analytical thinking for the brainwashed.

[Jamaal510]

7. Give it up, CNN.

You'll never have the loyal RWNJ viewership that FOX has. So why do you even try to be like them? What happened to you guys being impartial and "the most trusted name in news"?

[DeSwiss]

8. If you lie down with dogs.....

...you get up with bad headlines.

- Just like GMOs, CNN should be required to come with a warning label......

K&R

[Rosa Luxemburg]

9. CNN should pack up and retire

CNN is such a tired, pathetic entity.

[Archaic]

11. Ok. Obama signed a law in that he supported.

Bush flew to a birthday party, letting a city drown.
Clinton messed around with an intern, and lied about it.

The law that Obama signed is a month old. Hasn't actually taken effect as coverage doesn't begin for 45 days or so. So not a single person has spent or lost a dollar. The plans canceled by insurers are much like every other one changed by insurers every year.

Totally the same.

[JI7]

12. one dumbshit wingnut said at least Bush killed Saddam Hussein

when i brought up his failures when this dumbshit was going on about how Obamacare is the worst thing to ever happen .

really ? if it was about killing Saddam there were many ways to have done that without the huge disaster which resulted in many innocent lives being lost .

[BlancheSplanchnik]

16. dumbshit doesn't realize it was Bin Laden we needed to get.

For the 9/11 terrorist massacre. Remember that dumbshit-guy?? You (those dumbshits, not you J17) remember, "Terra! Terra! Terra!" ?


Ugh, the idiots.....

[nomorenomore08]

23. Many? More like a few hundred thousand...

(I'm sure you know that, I was just reminding everybody.)

[Nanjing to Seoul]

15. Lewinsky = blowjob. Obamacare = internet miscalcuations. Katrina = death and destruction

Nice attempt, Certainly Not News.

Assholes.

[Botany]

20. don't forget the "fly over"

Katrina hit a much less populated area and 2,000 died right off ..... 3,000 more over the next 4 years

Sandy hit the most populated area of the U.S. and thanx to planning only 100 died.

[Monk06]

17. All US television 'news' is just tabloid fodder these days. No better than the UK Sun.

[SoapBox]

18. CNN sucks!

I can't even turn them on...and their website is Bash Obama, 24/7.

And as HealthCare.gov continues to improve daily (note that the site had NO outages this week and the response times were only seconds) they simply move to bash the President for something else.

WMD's...Never, EVER forget!

[snooper2]

19. I just erased that from my memory for my own sanity

[lolly]

21. I don't think this is just sloppy false equivalence

There is a huge effort underway to convince the country that the ACA is a major, major, major disaster.

Of course, one reason it requires such a huge effort is that---it isn't. It's got problems, like any new program, but they're certainly workable.

Watch for much more of this. Newspaper columnists, pundits, mediocre comedians, even country music stars--they're all going to be harping on this incessantly between now any January.

[Gman]

22. Seriously? A screwed up website and a BJ

Are the same as leaving thousands if people to die?

[ReRe]

24. Fuck CNN

Where is the comparison in that analogy? No one was killed over ACA or Monica. And lives will be saved under ACA, not taken. I bet they have to bring Ted Turner a new TV every day, because I'm sure when he sees shit like this out of CNN that he smashes it (his TV) on a daily basis now.

[Aerows]

25. Bombing a third world country

kill hundreds of thousands and displace millions due to falsified *read: lying* evidence, for that, there is JP Morgan Chase Mastercard.

It's priceless.

The little things in life that JPM can do to make more sociopaths, well, we don't conduct a course on that, we just assume that coming in to the firm you don't mind eating baby sandwiches. If you improve your margin and portfolio, you might just get them with a baked something on the side, along with a world salad apology!

[Beacool]

26. Let's see..........

The man on the left is trying to bring affordable health insurance to those who don't have it.

The man in the middle started two wars that caused the deaths of many thousands of people.

The man on the right was subjected to a witch hunt for five years. When they couldn't find him culpable of any criminal wrong doing, they went after his private life and impeached him over lying about receiving oral sex from a consenting adult.

Who of the three brought more damage to the nation?

[madokie]

28. I'd rather watch paint dry as watch cnn

[area51]

29. WTH?

The only CNN site I look at is the European version, which isn't as juvenile as the US version. It's at edition.cnn.com.

[Pholus]

31. Wow. Look at the corp. mindset on display with the headline stories!

U.S. Version:

"Obamacare: Now what?" -- President embarassed by dem defections on house vote on cancelled plans.
"Second-term woes: Obamacare, Katrina, Iran-Contra" -- Lewinski seems to have dropped off from the original.

International Version (way on the bottom):

"Why Obamacare? 3 charts" -- Killing republican hype about how bad the law is.
"The Obamacare Question pastors shun" -- Coverage gaps in states that refused Obamacare.

Is America really a right wing country or is that just because of the diet we're fed....

[Pholus]

32. It changed to "Obamacare...Katrina...Iran Contra"

So much better, comparing a law to malfeasance and a literal crime.

Look CNN, be honest.

Obamacare is getting the EXACT same treatment that Social Security initially got. The claims that it was socialism. The arguments about loss of jobs. Read the headlines from the time -- the corporate press didn't like Social Security either.

[Laelth]

33. More false equivalence. Sickening. n/t

-Laelth

[Gravitycollapse]

35. Saying it's false equivalence is a slur against false equivalence.

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It goes way beyond that.

[Skittles]

36. I love how drowning a city is called "troubles"

[LWolf]

38. I have to agree. nt

[ZX86]

39. When will Democrats call out this nonsense???

And call them out by name?