Today's Mainstream Media Bias Lesson

Katie Couric crowed about a CBS poll that showed 81% of Americans think PBO is being bipartisan. She did mention that only 51% of the respondents still support the stimulus bill, known on this page as the Confiscation Of Your Hard Earned Money To Be Given Away As A Reward To Liberal Cronies Act of 2009. This is much higher than most other polls are showing, with Rasmussen only showing 37% support and Gallup only showing 38% support.

What is stranger still is what Perky Katie did not mention. In the same poll she used to cull her numbers from, the poll ran by her employer, CBS, there are some numbers that would seem to be most worthy of mention.

59% of Americans feel that tax cuts are the best way to end the recession, with only 22% saying that government spending will do it.

While it’s true that the CBS poll still shows 51% support of the stimulus, that support has dropped 12% in two weeks.

Only 28% admit they are following the discussion closely, and those that are actually paying attention are much more likely to oppose the stimulus.

Only 21% think the bill will significantly shorten the recession, with 45% thinking the massive redistribution of $800B will have no effect.

Support for Nancy Pelosi continues to fall, with a 3 to 1 negative rating currently from those who have an opinion of her.

PBO has a 62% approval rating. Big deal. Presidents always get huge ratings at first. At the same time in their terms, W had 53%, Nixon had 60%, and Bush 41 enjoyed a 61% rating. Even Carter had 66% support, and we all know how badly that term turned out.

More people disapprove of the bank bailouts now, 47-42%, a trend that should alarm lefties.

76% of Americans do not think the government should run the banks, compared to only 14% who think they should.

Here’s something that should shock a lot of mainstream media followers. Since PBO’s inauguration, the number of people who are very concerned about a job loss in their own family has risen from 30% to 44%. On top of that, the number of people with a negative view of the economy has risen 2% in the same time frame. And, although it’s dropped in that time, there are still 68% of Americans who feel the country is on the wrong track. How can that be with lefties in charge of everything now?

On Guantamo, more people think it should remain open, 46-44, and 36% think closing it will make American less safe, while only 4% think closing it will make us safer.

Out of all those numbers, Perky only chooses to highlight the answer about PBO being bipartisan. What media bias?