Check this out ... Here is a quote from Politico's Mike Allen today from ABC News:

"What this pointed to is the fact there is a real distrust out in the country of this president," Politico's Allen said. "That it's not a 50-50 country. That it's not an Obama nation and that's what we saw bubbling up this summer with health care as the catalyst."

Politico is probably the most easily distracted news source of the Net when it comes to falling for Republican talking points and tactics. But that is really totally over the top.

Regardless of the horrible August that Obama & the Dems had and in spite of the largest most powerful news organization (News Corp) determined to bring him down, Obama stil holds a 50+ % approval throughout the country.

Taking those numbers, one must completely ignore national polling and instead do what the rest of the MSM has done these past few weeks: fall for the Republican gimick of being loud & obnoxious and then have these DC insider beltway pundits try to convince us that means that MOST Americans do not approve of Obama.

That is incredibly dishonest and a disservice for the 4th estate.

Since the furor over Van Jones that was ginned-up last week by Michelle Malkin and Glenn Beck was sooooo important that Politico feels the need to make the entire concept of czars a BIG deal, I thought I would continue my thoughts from my previous posting on the czar hypocrisy where we see media outlets like Politico dutifully transcribing GOP talking points to try to nail the Obama WH.

Naturally, there was NO outrage by Republicans during the Bush years where there were actually MORE czars and most were not people who were confirmed by the Senate. Click this link to see the List of U.S. executive branch czars in our country's history.

But in typical GOP 2009 fashion, here is Cantor  throwing a hissy fit over czars. Naturally, Cantor and the GOP leadership found nooooo problem with things like czars, deficits or bank bailouts under a Republican president.

We have a serious problem with the media in this country today. And Politico's egregiously incorrect stories are simply repeating falsehoods from GOP talking points memos (more czars than ever before & not confirmed by the Senate).

That is a lazy excuse for "journalism" and very dangerous.