Is there any outlet the Obama Administration won’t attack in pursuit of placing blame for its collapsing approval ratings elsewhere?

It can’t possibly be that Americans are unhappy with Obama’s far-left liberal agenda; the fact his lies from the campaign are coming to light; the radicals he’s appointed to positions of power are being exposed; or that he’s now regularly making decisions that even his own party disagrees with.

No, it must be Fox News’ fault. Or the fault of the blogs. Or, this week, of the polling firms that find his approval rating plummeting. Yeah, that’s the ticket. It’s just the pollsters biased against liberals.

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs slammed Gallup’s daily tracking poll on Tuesday after it showed President Obama’s approval rating had fallen to 47 percent, the lowest approval rating for any president at this stage of his presidency dating back to President Harry S Truman.

“If I was a heart patient and Gallup was my EKG, I’d visit my doctor,” Gibbs said in the morning, off-camera briefing with reporters. “Five days ago there was an eleven-point spread. Now there is a one-point spread. I’m sure a six-year-old with a Crayon could do something not unlike that.”

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Gibbs reference to an “eleven-point spread” between Obama’s approval and disapproval rating “five days ago” cannot be found in Gallup’s data. In a Nov 30-Dec. 2 survey, Gallup found Obama’s approval at 51 percent and his disapproval at 42 percent. A Nov. 27-29 survey found the ratio to be 51 percent approval to 41 percent disapproval.

Gallup has tracked the president’s approval throughout the year.

Despite the scope of Gallup’s data and its reputation for professional political polling, Gibbs dismissed its survey.

“I don’t put a lot of stake in, never have, in the EKG that is daily Gallup trend. I don’t pay a lot of attention to the meaninglessness of it.”

Oddly enough, I don’t recall Gibbs dismissing Gallup’s results when it was finding Obama with extremely high approval ratings. Or when it found Americans agreeing with something Obama was pushing at the time. No, Gallup is only unreliable in the eyes of the White House when its approval numbers for The One are trending downwards.

Incidentally, Gallup has Obama’s approval back up at 50% — a three percent increase — and his disapproval back down to 45% today. Is the pollster suddenly reliable in the eyes of the White House once more?