Obama Celebrates "Cinco de Quattro"

Look, to be antiseptically fair, I almost didn't post this because any reasonable reading of it will tell even the most ardent Obama dissenter why this gaffe was a gaffe that anybody could make but the fact that it was an Obama gaffe and not the gaffe of any conservative of any name but most particularly "Bush" or "Palin" is what make the *crickets* surrounding its non-reportage noteworthy.

Obama jokes that the Latin Americans he is hosting for an event in the White House a day early for Cinco de Mayo event are there to celebrate "Cinco de Quattro" which is not only wrong, but wrong in a completely a**backwards way.  If anyone named "Bush" or "Palin" had done it you wouldn't be trolling some middle-aged disc-jockey's blog to see it. It would have been burned into your brain on a continuous loop on MSNBC, CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC.

Is it Any Wonder Nobody Watches These Clowns?

This is a screen capture of CBS News website at just before 3pm Thursday 05/06/10. See the problem? Let me help you. It's the headline. Still stumped? Ready?

There was no Department of Homeland Security in 1999. It was created after the attacks of September 11, 2001. Murrow must be rolling over in his grave.  This page went up at 5:22pm on May 5. Down in the comments section (not captured here, sorry) someone had posted as early at about 11am on May 6 that they noticed the error, too, which makes it even worse, because that means that at least four hours had passed from the time that comment was left to when I happened upon the site and saw the error.  So it went overnight without anyone catching it, then all the way until after the CBS morning news had reported it and beyond. Adding to the circus like inanity of the webpage, also not captured here, unfortunately, is the smiling visage of that cougar herself, one Miss Katherine Couric of the clacking heels and faux perkiness.

Never mind the content of the headline which tells us that Janet Planet & O are asleep at the friggin' switch, even in the wake of their public declarations to have a "stem to stern" look-see at DHS after the underwear bomber at Christmas time.

Maybe we could borrow 60 minutes tick-tick-tick stopwatch from down the hall there at CBS to clock how long it will take before they fix the error. You can check here.