What does this tell you about Democrats in general, and the MSM in particular?

From the Washington Post, not a conservative paper:

  "Yesterday, Chad Henderson became a verified Obamacare celebrity. The 21-year-old from Georgia was hounded by reporters after Enroll America identified him as someone who had successfully purchased insurance coverage on HealthCare.Gov (a relatively rare feat right now).

Chad's dad, Bill Henderson, says otherwise. He tells Peter Suderman that he believes Chad has not signed up for health coverage quite yet. Here's one bit of their interview:

Bill Henderson told me that both he and his son were interested in getting coverage, but that they had not enrolled in any plan yet, and to his knowledge, neither had his son. He also said that when they do enroll, getting the most coverage for the least money would be the goal, and that he expects that he and his son will get coverage under the same plan.

Bill told me that Chad had been looking into plans online. “He told me that there’s different plans. And we haven’t decided which plans to enroll in yet.”

I've left a phone message with Chad asking him if he wants to comment on his dad's comments. Chad never told me that his dad had signed up, but did say he enrolled in a plan around 3 a.m.  Tuesday morning. Either somebody is lying, or the Henderson family needs to work on its communication skills.

Update: I spoke with Chad over the phone about this situation. He told me that he has indeed not purchased coverage but doesn't believe he was lying. He said he told reporters that he completed an application for coverage and knows what plan he would like to purchase, but has not, as of yet, enrolled in that insurance plan. Here's a transcript of our conversation."

So little Chad lied to the press about signing up for Obamacare, and since they could apparently find no one else who had, they created a minor celebrity out of him.  

No one in the media, apparently, thought to check his background, or whether he had actually signed up.  Just the fact that he claimed to have signed up his dad, which would have required him to misrepresent who he was, and add his dad's personal information, should have told the press that such an act was unlikely.

But it didn't.  They wanted so badly to find a telegenic person who could say that Obamacare had worked for them, that they didn't do their job, and now they look like the chumps that they are.

The press has been willingly taken in by this scoundrel, and now they have to eat a huge helping of crow.  Bon appetit!