My colleague at the Media Research Center, Brent Baker reports on the eve of President George W. Bush’s second inauguration,

the CBS Evening News brought up Richard Nixon in stressing Bush’s

comparatively low approval rating of 49 percent in a new CBS

News/New York Times poll. John Roberts asked and answered: “What

did Presidents Clinton, Reagan, Eisenhower, even Nixon, all have

in common? A higher approval rating on the eve of their second

inauguration than President George W. Bush.” As Roberts spoke,

viewers saw a screen with pictures of all five Presidents with

their approval rating at the start of their second term listed

below their photo. Referring to Condoleezza Rice’s admission some

bad decisions were made on Iraq, Roberts trumpeted how “the

President’s nominee for top diplomat did offer a rare moment of

candor today.”