In a story about President Obama rushing to sign a pro-abortion executive order, the AP asserts there’s a “consensus” on closing the terrorist detainee facility at Guantanamo Bay:

Obama has spent his first days in office systematically signing executive orders reversing Bush administration policies on issues ranging from foreign policy to government operations. But, save for ending the ban, Obama has largely refrained from wading into ideological issues, perhaps to avoid being tagged a traditional partisan from the outset after his campaign promises to change “business as usual” in the often partisan-gridlocked capital.

Rather, Obama has chosen to focus initially on issues in which there is consensus across the political spectrum and support from the public, such as closing the prison camp for suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to making government documents more accessible.

But from The Campaign Spot at National Review Online there’s this:

A few days ago, Gallup asked, “Do you think the United States should – or should not – close the prison at the Guantanamo Bay military base in Cuba?” The respondents split 35 percent “yes,” 45 percent “no,” 20 percent “no opinion.”

And from polling organization Rasmussen Reports:

Nearly half of U.S. voters (49%) say the United States should not close the terrorist prison camp at Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba, but the identical number (49%) also say Barack Obama is Very likely to close it in the first year of his presidency.

Only 32% of voters say the Guantanamo prison camp should be closed, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. One-out-of-five (19%) are undecided.

So where did the ObamAP get the idea there’s a consensus for closing the facility? They must have asked all the liberal Democrats in the news room, no doubt there’s a consensus there. They seem to have just made it up. This is not professional journalism, it’s partisan advocacy. Par for the course by this point, but they still need to be called on it.