The White House, hoping that Obamacare can ride on the coattails of the NCAA basketball tournament, is featuring the GIF-heavy “16 sweetest reasons to #GetCoveredNow”:
Time for some health care #bracketology! Vote on the 16 sweetest reasons to #GetCoveredNow → http://t.co/Pn1zVmnRgV #GIFsIncluded
— White House Archived (@ObamaWhiteHouse) March 17, 2014
Among the 16 “competitors” in the Obamacare “tournament” is this:
The twerking for Obamacare gif -> http://t.co/78YdEjj6oh
— Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) March 17, 2014
Yes, this is actually on the White House website as a reason to #GetCoveredNow:
Who hasn’t that happened to?
This has gone beyond embarrassment.
When you can't sell America on Obamacare, the next option is a twerking gif on the White House page? http://t.co/lnuDqKffku
— Derek Ryan (@longhornderek) March 17, 2014
https://twitter.com/BBaranowski/status/445610216789245952
Remember when adults were in charge? Wow. MT @John_Rouleau: FFS. WH website has a GIF of a woman twerking on a sink. http://t.co/PTTp0WYKWW
— Cherie (@cheriebone) March 17, 2014
Another “health care bracketology” competitor is a “birth control is free” happy duck GIF:
The White House doesn’t say who actually gets stuck with the bill for that particular “freebie.”
https://twitter.com/TPCarney/status/445607178855272448
@TPCarney I am impressed that one of the most significant issues of the day can be reduced to a dancing duck. #notinsultedatall #Godhelpus
— Ranjoesta (@ranjoesta) March 17, 2014
Truly hard to believe WH puts this stuff out MT @TPCarney: "Birth control is free" Duck GIF. Our Pres, ladies & gents http://t.co/UjkoapneZI
— Justin Sponaugle (@JSpo_Naug) March 17, 2014
And those are just two of the 16 “competitors” in “health care bracketology.”
“Baffled” doesn’t even begin to describe the reactions:
Governing is serious business, and this administration is posting twerking gifs on the White House website?
— Jason B. Whitman, OD (@JasonBWhitman) March 17, 2014
https://twitter.com/kesgardner/status/445616645277376512
@JeromeEHudson can he make the Presidency any less Presidential?
— DJ (@djb_in_cbus) March 17, 2014
Yes, America. There's a gif of a woman twerking on a bathroom sink on the website of the White House. Like, THE WHITE HOUSE.
— RBe (@RBPundit) March 17, 2014
Isn't there some point where Millennials will start to feel insulted by these Obamacare ads? @RBPundit
— Holden (@Holden114) March 17, 2014
https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/445614174522343424
https://twitter.com/CuffyMeh/status/445630916056989697
https://twitter.com/schuellerj/status/445618582076944385
It’s the kind of thing that makes us long for the more dignified Obamacare sales approach of “Between Two Ferns.”
Editor’s note: This post has been updated to include additional tweets.