On Thursday, Joy Reid, filling in for MSNBC's Martin Bashir, invited Washington Post's Ezra Klein to comment on the shutdown. After the usual "it's all Republicans fault" narrative, Klein then launched into a rather frank assessment of Obamacare's disastrous implementation, even going as far to say "the Obama Administration failed the people it's trying to help." Immediately, Reid went into damage control, trying to minimize the flaws to just a "glitchy site", but Klein doubled down on his position with only a scant number of excuses to make up for it.

It isn't just a glitchy site. Basically, nobody is capable of signing up for affordable health care right now or any health insurance. Affordable or not, that is not okay. They did a bad job running a very big program supposed to help a lot of Americans. Now three weeks from now, four weeks from now, it might all be fixed. There is something to that. A stat I heard the other day, which I think is a strong one, is there were more people trying to sign up for accounts at health care.gov in the first 24 hours than Twitter had in the last 24 months. Nevertheless, when you launch something like this, it is on you to make it work. We are more than a week and most people cannot use the site or get insurance.

However, Klein did fail to mention that stat he holds in high regard has been debated by numerous IT experts throughout the week, claiming that poor software powering Healthcare.gov will surely make it difficult to properly gauge the number of sign-ups they receive.