Good News for America Is Bad News for CNN

RUSH: … last night CNN, The Lead with Jake Tapper, here is fill-in Host Dana Bash introducing a report about the results of this new poll.

BASH: A brand new CNN poll revealing what Americans think about Donald Trump and how he’s performing on key issues, with some good news for the president. His approval rating ticked up and Americans feel better about the economy today than they have in nearly two decades.

Poor Dana Bash, drawing the short straw to have to report this. Can you imagine how that meeting went? “Okay, Tapper, you want this?” “No!” “Jim Acosta, you want – no, we don’t want Acosta.” “Dana, looks like you. Borger’s not around, so you gotta report this.” So she reports it. Then she turned to the congressional correspondent Phil Mattingly and said, “First, how is the President faring in this new poll?”

MATTINGLY: If you take a look at the top line approval number, the president’s job approval rating is at 42 percent. Disapproval, 51 percent. This is the lowest share of Americans disapproving that have been polled over the course of his entire presidency. Two months ago, in the middle of the shutdown, he was at 37 percent. Last month at 40 percent. Now at 42 percent. So as you noted, he is starting to tick up. At 42 percent right now. Ronald Reagan, 1983, was at 41 percent. Bill Clinton, 1995, was at 44 percent. You’ll note both of those individuals won their reelection.

RUSH: Oh, it’s not good news at CNN. And notice they didn’t tell you what Obama’s number was at this point in his first term. It’s lower than what Trump’s is. Obama’s approval numbers were nothing to write home about. Remember, Obama lost the House with 63 Republican pickups in the midterms of 2010, Tea Party and all that. But the news got even worse when CNN asked people in their poll what they think about the economy.

MATTINGLY: Current economic conditions, of those polled, 71 percent say that’s good. Why does that matter? What’s the context there? That is the best number since February of 2001. Obviously, everybody has been talking about the good economy, the president, the president’s advisers want people to talk more about the good economy. Clearly, 71 percent of Americans that were polled saying the economy is good at this moment. Reflecting that, the big question is will that carry over and will that lead to future upticks as well?

RUSH: You have not been talking about the good economy at CNN. That’s the exact precise point here. You’re being forced to because you went out there and did a poll and you got results that you were not expecting. Seventy-one percent say the economy is good, and then CNN says, “Why does that matter?”

Why does that matter? Because you guys have been trying to not report it. You’ve been trying to ignore it. You want people to think, even with the headline of your story about the poll, that Trump’s doing horribly, the economy is nothing to write home about, you’re not reporting the food stamp news. They have to report this.

Now, to put the cherry on top of this they went Paul Begala who essentially says, don’t worry about any of this, there’s gonna be a recession before the 2020 election, and Trump’s gonna get killed because of it.

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