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RiverStone

(7,228 posts) Wed Oct 30, 2013, 08:09 PM Oct 2013

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Why has the MSM gone f'ing crazy on hammering "the ACA website is broken" 24/7?

For ratings hungry MSM talking heads, the constant drone of repetition (i.e. Republicans and their constituents whining about the ACA website) and/or slamming Katherine Sebelius on The Hill seems to have reached a fevered pitch. IMO, it's gone off the charts in stupid TV.

Yes, the website had/has lots of problems - but the website is NOT the ACA! Faux News and co. think their feeding frenzy will change the will of the electorate, but a fucked up website can be repaired. While I'll agree that better oversight could have happened during construction, when it's mostly working AOK in 6 weeks - then what?

Do they really think a buggy website will result in the American people demanding the ACA itself be gutted!? This smoke and mirror bullshit is primarily being fed by reality TV that loves a good fight. When will they STF up?

On edit: spelling!

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Why has the MSM gone f'ing crazy on hammering "the ACA website is broken" 24/7? (Original Post) RiverStone Oct 2013 OP

$$$$$$$$$$ riverbendviewgal Oct 2013 #1

zombie reagan rules. all government BAD! keep pimping the GOP. pansypoo53219 Oct 2013 #16

The M$M love anything that proves gvt doesn't work leftstreet Oct 2013 #2

I disagree. They seem to think unnecessary wars are cool mucifer Oct 2013 #8

I'm tired of hearing about the ACA website issues as well. AndyA Oct 2013 #3

Because it's all they got... VanillaRhapsody Oct 2013 #4

Not in Kentucky... RiverStone Oct 2013 #7

No I mean hammering the "website is broken" is all the Republicans have.. VanillaRhapsody Oct 2013 #19

Its what their rich owners want them to do madokie Oct 2013 #5

For the same reason they go f'ing crazy about everything. Cleita Oct 2013 #6

Because no one calls them out on it. n/t GP6971 Oct 2013 #9

Simply put...they're just plain awful. There is no objectivity at all. Nt dorkzilla Oct 2013 #10

It's an easy assignment procon Oct 2013 #11

Another stupid fake scandal cooked up by the right. 6000eliot Oct 2013 #12

You're behind the times. This week's crisis CRISIS crisis, I tell you! is about people whose winter is coming Oct 2013 #13

HINT: MSM owned by rich fuckers bobduca Oct 2013 #14

Because WE allowed it. Anyone in IT world knows you QUANTIFY Laura PourMeADrink Oct 2013 #15

Cheap, easy to report, three-word phrase: "Web site's BROKE! Web site's BROKE!" hatrack Oct 2013 #17

It almost makes me wish they hadn't even bothered with a website bhikkhu Oct 2013 #18

riverbendviewgal

(4,253 posts)

1. $$$$$$$$$$

Reply to RiverStone (Original post)

Wed Oct 30, 2013, 08:11 PM

Oct 2013

is the reasons...they are whores

pansypoo53219

(20,993 posts)

16. zombie reagan rules. all government BAD! keep pimping the GOP.

Reply to riverbendviewgal (Reply #1)

Wed Oct 30, 2013, 09:33 PM

Oct 2013

it is the paradign they have been running with since 1980.

leftstreet

(36,111 posts)

2. The M$M love anything that proves gvt doesn't work

Reply to RiverStone (Original post)

Wed Oct 30, 2013, 08:12 PM

Oct 2013

Regardless of which party has the majority

mucifer

(23,560 posts)

8. I disagree. They seem to think unnecessary wars are cool

Reply to leftstreet (Reply #2)

Wed Oct 30, 2013, 08:25 PM

Oct 2013

AndyA

(16,993 posts)

3. I'm tired of hearing about the ACA website issues as well.

Reply to RiverStone (Original post)

Wed Oct 30, 2013, 08:13 PM

Oct 2013

Why doesn't the M$M start interviewing working parents who will not be able to feed their children soon because the Republicans and Tea Baggers are cutting food stamps?

Then point out that we're still paying subsidies to the oil industry?

How about that for a change?

The American people won't tolerate seeing starving children on their teevees for very long.

VanillaRhapsody

(21,115 posts)

4. Because it's all they got...

Reply to RiverStone (Original post)

Wed Oct 30, 2013, 08:13 PM

Oct 2013

they hope the people will take up the meme...

RiverStone

(7,228 posts)

7. Not in Kentucky...

Reply to VanillaRhapsody (Reply #4)

Wed Oct 30, 2013, 08:20 PM

Oct 2013

And many other states (like Washington, where I live) which has it's own exchange running pretty well.

I think the M$M and republican wingnuts know this story will only have legs for another few weeks, if that. When success is evident, they REALLY won't have anything. So then they will constuct another crisis to jack up the ratings

VanillaRhapsody

(21,115 posts)

19. No I mean hammering the "website is broken" is all the Republicans have..

Reply to RiverStone (Reply #7)

Wed Oct 30, 2013, 10:01 PM

Oct 2013

broken websiste is all there is for them....they are praying it never gets fixed. Those prayers will go unanswered.

madokie

(51,076 posts)

5. Its what their rich owners want them to do

Reply to RiverStone (Original post)

Wed Oct 30, 2013, 08:17 PM

Oct 2013

Pretty obvious to me anyway

Cleita

(75,480 posts)

6. For the same reason they go f'ing crazy about everything.

Reply to RiverStone (Original post)

Wed Oct 30, 2013, 08:18 PM

Oct 2013

THEY ARE F'ING CRAZY!!!

GP6971

(31,203 posts)

9. Because no one calls them out on it. n/t

Reply to RiverStone (Original post)

Wed Oct 30, 2013, 08:31 PM

Oct 2013

dorkzilla

(5,141 posts)

10. Simply put...they're just plain awful. There is no objectivity at all. Nt

Reply to RiverStone (Original post)

Wed Oct 30, 2013, 08:41 PM

Oct 2013

procon

(15,805 posts)

11. It's an easy assignment

Reply to RiverStone (Original post)

Wed Oct 30, 2013, 09:14 PM

Oct 2013

for reporters who likely know little more about internet technologies -- let alone the ACA! -- than the average viewer. Just toss out some meaningless geeky jargon, quote a few predictable gloom and doomsayers from the dire right, and -- POOF! -- we get another piece of craptastic, journalistic schlock.

6000eliot

(5,643 posts)

12. Another stupid fake scandal cooked up by the right.

Reply to RiverStone (Original post)

Wed Oct 30, 2013, 09:15 PM

Oct 2013

winter is coming

(11,785 posts)

13. You're behind the times. This week's crisis CRISIS crisis, I tell you! is about people whose

Reply to RiverStone (Original post)

Wed Oct 30, 2013, 09:16 PM

Oct 2013

craptastic policies are being canceled.

bobduca

(1,763 posts)

14. HINT: MSM owned by rich fuckers

Reply to RiverStone (Original post)

Wed Oct 30, 2013, 09:24 PM

Oct 2013

rich fuckers tend toward republicans or third way democrats.

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)

15. Because WE allowed it. Anyone in IT world knows you QUANTIFY

Reply to RiverStone (Original post)

Wed Oct 30, 2013, 09:28 PM

Oct 2013

problems - to enable you to move forward and show progress. Stupid of us to send this nebulous cloud out there - that it is a total mess. You can not recover from that and it takes hold and becomes part of the general consciousness.

Maybe the performance numbers are as bleak as shit. But, hoping that they start quantifying the issues soon.

hatrack

(59,592 posts)

17. Cheap, easy to report, three-word phrase: "Web site's BROKE! Web site's BROKE!"

Reply to RiverStone (Original post)

Wed Oct 30, 2013, 09:34 PM

Oct 2013

Keeps it easy for the lip-movers to remember.

bhikkhu

(10,722 posts)

18. It almost makes me wish they hadn't even bothered with a website

Reply to RiverStone (Original post)

Wed Oct 30, 2013, 09:38 PM

Oct 2013

They didn't have to, and there are plenty of DHS and SS offices around that could have managed the traffic with a beef-ed up staff. Or they could have just sent out packets to be mailed in, and handled questions over the phone, or somehow or other.

In any case, I just mailed in my enrollment form, and it wasn't hard.

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