DENIAL IS IN THE EYES OF THE BEHOLDER

It is amazing that Obama's approval ratings remain at a significant peak of 60% while the Republicans a crowing about their unity (voting to maintain their blob of a group, to prove that they are indeed unable to think independently and kidding themselves that is was some sort of a coup. However, the American people do not seem to look on it in the same way. DC Journalists Love GOP Obstructionists, But Americans Don't written in an article by Jane Hamsher in Firedog lake on 2/15/09. Ben Smith has an interesting article on how pollsters are finding that there is a pretty big gap between what DC journalists think Americans think, and what Americans actually think. Why did this not surprise me?

Throughout the presidential campaign the media treated what they reported as though they were being asked for their opinion rather than their reporting. Pushed by their station owners to keep their ratings up, they became entertainers just like Rush Limbaugh (there are still many who believe he is a real newsman, poor deluded people).

The article says: "But according to Daily Kos polling, the change in public opinion from a poll taken from Feb. 2-5 to the latest one taken from Feb. 9-12 indicates that Pelosi, Reid and the Democratic Party have actually gone up in public approval -- all had a net change of +2 points, while the Congressional Dems scored a +3. Conversely, Republicans went down -- the Republican Party had a net change of -2, while McConnell, Boehner and Congressional Republicans all had a loss of -3."

And if you go back to the beginning of the year and track how the public is viewing the political situation in Washington DC, the changes are even more dramatic:



The moral of the story: How sad that the American Public can no longer trust the media to be neutral in partisanship.