We already noted how the WashPost wrote around the good news approval ratings it found for Obama. So of course polling partner ABC News signed off on the same strategy. (They don't call it The Village for nothing.) And so that's why ABC doesn't even mention Obama's 57 percent approval ratings until the tenth paragraph of its dispatch.

The ABC article was written by ABC's polling chief, Gary Langer and this was the bad-news lede:

Public doubt about health care reform has grown as the debate's raged this summer, with a rise in views it would do more harm than good, increasing opposition to a public option - and President Obama's rating on the issue at a new low in ABC News/Washington Post polls.

Please contrast that to this ABC report which Langer himself contributed in August of 2001, when the news outlet had fresh polling data regarding President Bush. This was Langer's first line:

After wobbling a bit earlier this year, President Bush's job approval rating looks to have stabilized at 59 percent.

Got it? When Bush landed a 59 percent approval rating in August of his first term, that was the lede; that was the news. And it was good news. His ratings had “stabilized.”

Fast-forward to the August of Obama's first term. When he landed a 57 percent job approval rating, that was definitely not the lede for ABC News. And Obama's 57 percent was certainly not portrayed as good news.

Behold your liberal media at work.