NBC Focuses on Bush's Bad Polls Yet Ignores Popular Bush Policies

NBC Focuses on Bush's Bad Polls Yet Ignores Popular Bush Policies

A day after leading with how a NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll put President Bush's approval at a low 37 percent, Thursday's NBC Nightly News again emphasized the negative for Bush and ignored how its own survey found public support for Bush policies which the media have derided, such as majority support for the NSA wiretapping program, the Patriot Act and making Bush's tax cuts permanent.

From the White House, David Gregory asserted that "they're clearly shaken, as you might understand, politically, by the President's eroding support in the country." Gregory suggested that "at his lowest level yet in the polls, the President is left to wonder: Which way is up?

Iraq, says Republican pollster Bill McInturff, has enveloped the Bush presidency." Ironically, Gregory relayed how "Republican leaders have said they're worried that the President's strengths, like tax cuts or tough anti-terror measures, have been overlooked."

Indeed they have been by Gregory and NBC News. While Tim Russert on Wednesday night gave a sentence to how "voters still say they prefer Republicans to manage the war in Iraq and to deal with homeland security," like with the terrorist surveillance issue, neither NBC Nightly News or Today have yet to mention how 56 percent "strongly" or "somewhat" support "making the tax cuts of the past few years permanent."

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Ignore what doesn't fit into your agenda. That's a time honored tactic in business and politics. That's why Rebub's get upset by criticism by real Conservatives. And Dem's get upset by criticism by non-moon-bat Dem's