. so have you noticed that healthcare.gov is getting a lot of coverage lately? this is not a glitch. this is a national embarrassment. this is just a website. this is like the easiest thing to do in the whole complicated government bureaucracy. what is happening in the website is a very public view of what s happening all over america in multiple aspects of the rollout. there are issues that have to be dealt with. setting up a website where people can go on and buy something is not complicated. people do it every single day. hilarious irony is that the target of the shutdown, the launch of obama care, was completely swallowed up by the news of the shutdown itself. but as soon as the shutdown ended the entire national media turned their attention to the rollout of obama care, which has been rocky to say the at least.
and amid all this media attention comes an article from joan walsh, which argues that the tidal wave of obama care coverage is helping the right wing in its mission to distort people s impression of the new law. on one hand, yes, it s important for democrats to acknowledge when they screw up and fix it. on the other hand, when the liberals rush to do that it encourages the unhundred jed coverage of what it would be. more specifically the problems with healthcare.gov which are real and need to be handled immediately. an article he calls out washington post editor ed ra klein for going on morning joe and calling the rollout a management failure. they were not given the information by their own bureaucracy to do it. ezra shock at this piece. my job is to cover obama care
we re back. joan walsh and ezra klein are both here. why did you write this piece? because i woke up monday morning in a changed america. we had gone from nonstop coverage, and i thought appropriate coverage of the constitutional crisis that the republican party had brought us to. the brink of global economic disaster. and suddenly the disaster was the website of the affordable care act, which is not the affordable care act. it is only a part of it. the president was right to say that. and i saw a kind of piling on, including by liberals. and i really i didn t do many of the things i m accused of. i didn t say don t report on these things. i didn t say don t talk about them. i said, have a sense of perspective. this may doom the program, but it s way too early. and i think that was read as somehow prop for obama. and of course, i am the last person not the last person
news of the shutdown itself. but as soon as the shutdown ended the entire national media turned their attention to the rollout of obama care, which has been rocky to say the at least. and amid all this media attention comes an article from joan walsh, which argues that the tidal wave of obama care coverage is helping the right wing in its mission to distort people s impression of the new law. on one hand, yes, it s important for democrats to acknowledge when they screw up and fix it. on the other hand, when the liberals rush to do that it encourages the unhundred jed coverage of what it would be. more specifically the problems with healthcare.gov which are real and need to be handled immediately. an article he calls out washington post editor ed ra klein for going on morning joe and calling the rollout a management failure. they were not given the information by their own bureaucracy to do it.
we re back. joan walsh and ezra klein are both here. why did you write this piece? because i woke up monday morning in a changed america. we had gone from nonstop coverage, and i thought appropriate coverage of the constitutional crisis that the republican party had brought us to. the brink of global economic disaster. and suddenly the disaster was the website of the affordable care act, which is not the affordable care act. it is only a part of it. the president was right to say that. and i saw a kind of piling on, including by liberals. and i really i didn t do many of the things i m accused of. i didn t say don t report on these things. i didn t say don t talk about them. i said, have a sense of perspective. this may doom the program, but it s way too early. and i think that was read as somehow prop for obama. and of course, i am the last person not the last person you re not the last person. i m not the last person. good call.