Jaded conservatives used to the routine slanting of political news got a jaw-dropping surprise from CNN.com Monday:

A headline over a story about the fight over funding the Department of Homeland Security put the blame on the party that deserves it.

Never in a billion years would I have expected to see this headline at http://t.co/Ri0Erb16tbpic.twitter.com/GdQJ3IjR2r

— Leon Wolf (@LeonHWolf) February 24, 2015

Monday night’s vote was the fourth time Demcrats had filibustered a bill to keep the Senate from voting a bill that would fund the department before a Friday deadline. But the news itself wasn’t as earth-shaking as the fact that a major media outlet had presented it truthfully, without the Democrat spin.

@LeonHWolf@instapundit But it’s the truth. Dems block DHS funding even as terrorist threats increase. Thanks @cnnbrk for reporting it.

— Hattie Kauffman (@Hatsfree) February 24, 2015

But just being the truth doesn’t make it news in the Obama Era media, which has spent six years painting Republicans as being the “obstructionists” standing in the president’s way. That’s what made the headline so refreshingly jarring.

What could be behind the sudden urge for accuracy?

.@LeonHWolf @exjon Holy crud. The media… Is holding Democrats accountable. New media has won. The Titans have fallen.

— Neil Jones ن (@ingenincinter) February 24, 2015

@LeonHWolf well the administration could only use the media for lies so many times before they become nbc….& the blaze takes their ratings

— James in Alabama (@JamesBham) February 24, 2015

Maybe.

Or it might just mean some headline-writer in Atlanta didn’t get the memo about protecting the president’s party — and might be in trouble over it.

@LeonHWolf Those responsible for this headline have been sacked.

— Jim Jamitis (@anthropocon) February 24, 2015

@LeonHWolf@HarrietBaldwin Someone will be fired.

— Bryan R.. (@youthpastorbry) February 24, 2015

Let’s hope not. Good journalism jobs are tough to find these days — as tough to find as honest journalists.

It might just mean something simpler — like hell freezing over.

@AccuracyInMedia@drhoagie@LeonHWolf end of times!!!

— Bob (@bperez1776) February 24, 2015

Unfortunately, the surprise will likely be too pleasant to last. Like the Russians in the bad old days, American conservatives are too used to their being “no truth in the news and no news in the truth.”

@LeonHWolf What’s next?? President Obama blocks Job Creating/Energy Independence Juggernaut Bill???

— Full Frontal Yeti (@BigWyo626) February 24, 2015

Sure. Right after the truth about Fast and Furious, Solyndra, the IRS and Benghazi.

.@bperez1776@AccuracyInMedia@LeonHWolf#cnn#MockTheMediapic.twitter.com/U61KnDS7BK

— drhoagie (D) (@drhoagie) February 24, 2015

It won’t happen.

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