Dick Cheney's rabid dogs in the Corporate Media are drooling over the prospect of savaging Speaker Pelosi for daring to agree with Jonathan Karl's accusation that the CIA lied to her.

Surprise! A rightwing Rasmussen poll found a 43%-41% plurality siding with Pelosi, not the CIA!

How likely is it that the CIA misled Pelosi about the use of waterboarding when interrogating prisoners?

20% Very likely
23% Somewhat likely
19% Not very likely
22% Not at all likely
16% Not sure

As Greg Sargent notes,

this is almost completely at odds with the way the traditional news orgs have covered this dispute. Most have focused almost entirely on the doubts the competing claims of Pelosi and the CIA cast on Pelosi’s credibility, with very few giving anywhere near the same level of scrutiny to the ways in which the CIA’s credibility is now in question.

If this poll is to be believed, however, more people are focused on the latter, despite what the news orgs are telling them to think.

Update 1: Erica Williams of the Center for American Politics was on a rapid-fire debate on CNN about the Pelosi-CIA battle and appeared to side with the Torturers:

The American people right now are actually not interested in this sideshow and this discussion.  The American people are interested in looking forward -- nobody is concerned anymore with what the Bush administration was doing and did.  We decided it was torture.  Conservatives may or may not disagree. None of that matters at this point and time.

Today she confessed that "A TORTURE APOLOGIST TOOK OVER MY BODY!"

Looking back at the quote, I’m honestly not sure how I could have said something so wholly inaccurate and misrepresenting of my own personal opinion and the work of my organization and “the American people”.  Me? A black woman who proudly wears her “Where are my reparations T-shirt” every Black History Month? Would I really suggest that America look away from and excuse its very recent and inhumane past? I think not. And yet, it appears as if I did...

rest assured that if the torture apologist ever rears her ugly head around these parts again, aiming to trip up my words, I'll make sure to get rid of her swiftly and surely - especially before appearing on national tv.

Good on you, Erica!