The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is the latest media outlet to go with the completely fictitious claim that CNN polling data revealed that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's approval ratings are down, and that the CIA briefing story is the cause for the decline.

Keep in mind, neither point is accurate. But hey, it's the Pelosi story so for the press, any claim will do.

From PI.com:

A new national survey by CNN shows President ABM sailing along with a 62 percent approval rating, while Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi struggles far behind with a thumbs-up figure of only 39 percent. Obama's popularity has lifted Congress' normally-dismal approval numbers over the last two months, and produced a sharp rise in the percentage of Americans who feel their country is on the “right track.”

The latest poll shows, however, that Pelosi is feeling the what-did-she-know, when-did-she-know-it controversy over CIA intelligence briefings she received while Democrats were still a minority in the House of Representative. Pelosi has accused the CIA of deception in its briefings. She has been rebuked by CIA chief Leon Panetta, a former House colleague from California.

The CNN poll of 1,010 adults was conducted May 14-15. It found Obama's disapproval rating at 35 percent, while 48 percent disapproved of Pelosi's performance in Congress' highest post.

As we noted earlier this week, according to the CNN poll quoted above, Pelosi's approval rating has not budged an inch since January. Period. Those are the facts. Any suggestion made by the PI to the contrary is simply a fabrication.

But the PI isn't alone. The Boston Globe and Politico both mangled the facts and claimed CNN's latest polling revealed bad news for Pelosi.

Isn't the news so much more interesting when you can just invent your own facts?