The Beltway Press Has it All Figured Out
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.
They have one fact right -- and it's been the reality all along: the country isn't 50-50. As for public option, it's 77-23.
It's one thing for the media to lie -- it can't be other than that -- that the country is 50-50. It's quite another to pretend that the percentages are opposite that they actual are.
September 7, 2009 6:13 PM | Reply | Permalink