From an editorial at the conservative Washington Examiner, which keys off a recent Pew Research poll that found just 22 percent of Americans have trust in their government:

Actually, it's not hard to understand why public faith in government is at rock bottom: People lose trust when the officials either ignore the public will, or, worse, do the opposite of what they promised voters they would do. President Obama, for example, promised a “net spending cut” during the 2008 presidential campaign. He has instead delivered the biggest explosion in federal spending in American history, with a result that the annual federal deficit and the national debt are now at levels nobody envisioned even a few years ago.

Bottom line: It's all Obama's fault.

But what fact does the Examiner conveniently leave out? This one: Right before President Bill Clinton was elected, public trust in the government stood at just 23 percent, according to the same Pew poll. By the time the Democrat left office though, public trust had risen dramatically, to 45 percent.

What happened during the Bush years? That trust absolutely cratered. Right before Bush left office (in October of 2008), public trust dropped to just 17 percent, according to Pew, an all-time low for the polling firm.

So yes, it's rather ironic that the Examiner pontificates today about how under Obama, Americans have lost trust, when in fact that happened under Obama's Republican predecessor.

UPDATED: In its recent write-up of the same poll, the Washington Post also forgot to mention that public trust plummeted during the Bush years. (And here, too.)

UPDATED: So did the New York Post. And USA Today. And the Des Moines Register. And ABC News.