"The State of the Coup Address"

A little blurb from NBC:

As President Barack Obama enters his sixth year in the White House, 68 percent of Americans say the country is either stagnant or worse off since he took office, according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.

Just 31 percent say the country is better off, and a deep pessimism continues to fuel the public’s mood. Most respondents used words like “divided,” “troubled,” and “deteriorating” to describe the current state of the nation.

On the eve of Tuesday’s State of the Union address, more than six-in-10 Americans believe that the nation is headed in the wrong direction and 70 percent are dissatisfied with the economy.

Whoa!  NBC has always been slavishly devoted to King Barack.  How curious that they'd print a piece showing that his policies have little public support.  How could this happen?

The reason--I suspect the only reason--is that the poll was conducted *jointly* by NBC and the Wall Street Journal--meaning that the results were going to be published by the latter regardless of what NBC decided to do.

Ah.

One wonders how that piece would have read if the WSJ hadn't had access to the results.