Would liberal journalist Karen Hunter have whitewashed President Bush’s low approval ratings during his time in office? On MSNBC Wednesday, the ever-classy Hunter curtly dismissed President Obama’s lowest approval rating to date, growling that “polls are for strippers.”

MSNBC anchor Chris Jansing highlighted a new Quinnipiac poll recording Obama’s approval rating at 42 percent, an all-time low for the president. She brought on Hunter, who was listed as an MSNBC contributor, along with another more conservative guest to discuss the ratings.

Hunter argued that the populace can be quite fickle in its rating of Obama’s accomplishments. “If people do their homework,” Hunter noted, they would recognize the magnitude of the president’s accomplishments in office, which she believed to have been the most since FDR.

Jansing backed Hunter up.

“Come on, you know how we are. We’re all ADD, and we’re ‘what have you done for me lately?'” Jansing quipped, criticizing the impatience of the American people.

Hunter praised the President for making principled decisions that are unpopular, such as his policy for intervening in Libya. “I think our policy has been to help…spread democracy throughout the Middle East. And that’s happening,” Hunter explained.

“It’s easy to say something today until you’re actually faced with the reality, and I think this President has been very thoughtful in doing things to help us dealing with the reality, not with what we want him to do,” Hunter concluded.

Such a staunch defense of Obama can be considered par-for-the-course for Hunter, though. Last summer she bizarrely complained that liberals suffered from “Post Traumatic First African-American President Syndrome.”

“We’re not giving this man an opportunity to really – we keep hitting him with all of these things, but the reality is he’s done more in two years than any other president since 1930,” she insisted.
—Matt Hadro is News Analysis intern at the Media Research Center. You can follow him on Twitter here.