ABC's Jon Karl Is Frustrated That Carney Does Not Adopt RW Talking Point

[TomCADem]

You can see why the corporate mainstream media gets so upset when the Obama administration refuses to adopt their Republican narrative of the moment. For example, ABC's Jon Karl starts to get upset that Jay Carney refuses to set up a comparison between Bush's Mission Accomplished speech and the ongoing updates to the website. So, Karl keeps on asking the question and Carney refuses to say, "yes, it is just like the Iraq war." The nerve! Karl was so proud of himself and his cleverness, and Carney is not playing along.

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/jay-carney-bristles-at-jon-karls-repeated-obamacare-question-is-this-mission-accomplished/

In the months-long media debate over the rollout of Obamacare and its website, opponents of the law have repeatedly tried to link health care reform with failures of past presidencies, including the Iraq War. At Monday’s White House Daily Briefing, ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl found a clever way to invoke that comparison, repeatedly asking Press Secretary Jay Carney if this weekend’s re-launch of Healthcare.gov is “Mission Accomplished.”
“In terms of the goals you set for this moment, in terms of the website being functional for the vast majority of users, is it Mission Accomplished?” Karl asked.

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“Let me try to crystallize that,” Karl said, trying again. “Very clearly, in terms of the goal that you set for this moment in time, is it Mission Accomplished?”

“Using…” Carney began. “That phrase is not one that I would employ. We were able to make the necessary improvements to the website so that the vast majority of Americans who use the website can have an experience in which the website functions effectively. It does not mean, as I said in November and October, it does not mean that there will be no problems with the website going forward. That does not even occur on the most highly functional private sector website. What it does mean is that we have made significant progress. We have made improvements to the system that we hoped we could, and then more work continues.”

[Arneoker]

1. The laziness of the overpaid elite media.

[66 dmhlt]

2. Jonathan Karl has ALWAYS been a Right-Wing hack ...

You only have to look at his book, "The Right to Bear Arms: The Rise of America's New Militia"

In it he contends that the rise of the new right-wing militias are NOT hate groups - but just good, solid 'Merkun patriots exercising their God-given Second Amendment rites.

Then there's that problem of his salivating to break the "news" on those White House BENGGGHHHAAAZZZIII emails ... that turned out to be FALSE - followed by the right-wing's standard non-apology apology.

[lame54]

3. Bush turned "Mission Accomplished" into a dirty word

[Wounded Bear]

4. He was like a large intestine...

everything he touched turned to shit.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

5. I really hate all of the Iraq/Bush-era false-equivalencies with ACA

See, I just can't get that worked up over a website and/or the implementation of a big healthcare law because I know that, at worst, some people might have some difficulties initially signing up for health coverage or they may be losing their cheap but otherwise junky "insurance". Nobody is likely going to die though because of ACA, however. It galls me that right-wingers are fighting a total war of destruction against health reform in this country because of all of its imagined evils yet they gave Bush/Cheney a free pass to send 4000+ American soldiers and countless Iraqis to their graves for reasons that had nothing to do with reality. Not to mention all of the money that was also dumped in the sand over there to rebuild the country and its infrastructure after we "shocked and awed" them.