MSNBC's Nancy Snyderman and Savannah Guthrie just discussed health care polling:

Snyderman: I must say I have looked at these numbers since last night and into this morning. I think they are all over the place. Which, to me underscores the confusion about what's what.

Gutherie: Yeah, you know, I had the exact same reaction. Kind of, “What?!?” You really see Americans all over the map. On the one hand, support for the public option growing. On the other hand, when you ask if they like the president's plan, which he has said he supports a public option, the majority don't like it.

So what you really take away from all of these conflicting and self-contradictory numbers is, there's a failure of message here. Either Americans don't understand what it is, whether or not to oppose it or favor it, because you see them thinking that it's going to make costs go up, but then some people think it should pass. It's really hard to look at these numbers and come up with a consistent philosophy as to how Americans feel about health care reform. And if that is the case so far into this debate, one really wonders where the messaging is, and where the failure is.

Where to start?

Is Savannah Guthrie really surprised that American public opinion is not monolithic?

Are MSNBC reporters really just realizing that polling on health care reform yields contradictory results?

Guthrie thinks disjointed poll results “so far into this debate” shows a “failure of message” on the part of reform advocates. Does she really not understand that a “debate” involves two sides, and that the two sides have been saying contradictory things, and that if the public has trouble sorting out what's true, that means the media has done a lousy job of making clear which claims are true and which are false?

Guthrie never so much as hints at the possibility that maybe the media haven't done a good job of explaining health care reform. The lack of self-awareness is stunning.