Last night, Jon Stewart tore into the media for their absurd comparisons of the Obamacare website glitches to Hurricane Katrina with a Daily Show panel.



And this weekend, he was booed at a basketball game! (audience boos) And now here, in my studio!! Or was that something else? To give you some sense of perspective about where things are for the President, this is how a crowd greeted the crack-smoking train-wreck of a mayor in Toronto on Saturday.

(crowd wildly cheering Rob Ford)

You're an idiot!! And that was before Mayor Ford's Monday adventure.

(video clip of Ford running into a city councillor)

(shocked audience laughter)

"Do not get in between me and my crack!! I will knock you over!!" (audience laughter)

It is hard to overstate what a low point this is in Barack Obama's presidency. Hard to overstate it, but not impossible.



BRIAN WILLIAMS (11/15/2013): President Obama now finds himself compared to President George W. Bush, as in the problems with the health care plan have become President Obama's Katrina. CNN: Is this Obama's Katrina moment? THOMAS ROBERTS: President Obama's Katrina moment.

(audience laughter and applause)

Look, I'm not trying to polish the .turd that is healthcare.gov. But comparing the government abdication of responsibility during Hurricane Katrina, the death of hundreds of people, the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people to a shitty website, is offensive.

Apparently, to the people who were in charge during Hurricane Katrina.



ANDREW CARD (11/18/2013): Katrina was a real disaster, but we also had jurisdictional challenges, because you had a mayor, and the White House couldn't do anything with the mayor objecting. We had a Governor of Louisiana who was a challenge to work with.

LOUISIANA GOV. BOBBY JINDAL, R (11/8/2013): Look, nobody's going to bully Louisiana into expanding Medicaid, or joining part of Obamacare.

That's not the only reason, by the way, that the comparison's unfair to George Bush.

