QUOTE OF THE DAY – AT 9:46 A.M. ET:  From Investor's Business Daily, after noting a Fox News poll reporting that 61% of Americans believe Obama lies some or most of the time on matters of national importance:

Last week, White House press secretary Jay Carney, interviewed at George Washington University, remarked that during 2012 "probably the toughest interview" Obama was subjected to was the one conducted by funnyman Jon Stewart.

"Probably the most substantive, challenging interview Barack Obama had in the election year was with the anchor of 'The Daily Show,' " Carney said.

Not "serious" TV interviewers such as Steve Kroft of "60 Minutes," whose questions of Obama in the heat of the 2012 campaign included:

"Where do you go to kind of sort things out on your own? And when do you find time to just be alone with your own thoughts?"

Not "Good Morning America's" Robin Roberts, who in May of that election year, while using her interview to provide a nationally televised forum for Obama's big switch on same-sex marriage — another broken promise — threw this hardball:

"Mother's Day. Sasha and Malia. Do you have plans for Mrs. Obama?"

It is disgraceful enough for the most prominent journalists to refuse to ask real questions of the most powerful politician in the country because they share his left-wing ideology.

But when a large majority of the public recognizes a president as a habitual liar, it is outrageous and entirely un-American for the most powerful within the nation's press to let him get away with his lies, and betray what they claim to stand for.

COMMENT:  Right on the head.  It is the press that is sustaining this deceitful and incompetent administration.  Obama's approval rating has fallen, but it would fall much further if the media asked the tough questions it refuses to ask.

And it will get worse, not better.  Republicans are floating on air right now, believing they have this year's midterm elections in the bag.  They don't.  New polling shows many vulnerable Democrats actually doing quite well.  I think gaining control of the Senate for our side will be a painful slog, with no guarantees, not a cakewalk.  Remember the growing number of Americans who are receiving government help.  They're not going to rush to the polls to elect Republicans.  And the press will be beating the bushes for anything negative to say about Republican candidates. 

It's a battle ahead.  Fight as if we're 20 points behind.

April 23, 2014