Today CNN reported that the mandate was struck down. Here’s their televised report:

On their website they reported:

They later went back and edited it to say:

“[Updated at 10:06 a.m. ET] In a landmark decision that will impact the nation for decades, the Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a key provision of President Barack Obama’s health care law, ruling that requiring people to have health insurance violates the Constitution.

Chief Justice John Roberts had noted that however that the mandate would have been struck down based on the commerce clause , saying it would “open a new and vast domain” for Congressional power.

No “oops” or retraction or anything. They just figured they would erase their big boo boo from the intertubes. Of course screen captures and video exists and apparently the mea culpas from a lot of lawmakers, who rely on CNN

CNN’s ratings have been in a free fall for years. Is it any wonder why, when they are reporting the exact opposite of what every other news organization reported? I understand that people do make mistakes, but this one is really unexcused and if I was in charge at CNN, someone would be fired today.