Screwed the duck

[Bonnie Taylor-Blake]

At 2:50 this afternoon, CNN's website reported that during today's
press conference, when "[a]sked to name his worst mistake of the year,
[President] Obama said he 'screwed the duck' on the healthcare
roll-out."

CNN later retracted that, correcting "screwed the duck" to "screwed it up."

http://twitchy.com/2013/12/20/quack-translation-how-cnn-website-originally-quoted-obama-saying-we-screwed-it-up/

-- Bonnie

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