In a column that will appear on page A6 of the Sunday Freeman this weekend, conservative columnist Cal Thomas, palpably giddy, will report that President Barack Obama has a 46 percent job approval rating in the latest Rasmussen Poll.

Thomas is correct. Scott Rasmussen's latest poll, conducted between Aug. 31 and Sept. 2, indeed has Obama at 46 percent.

But what Thomas doesn't tell you is that Rasmussen is like the East German judges at the Olympics during the Cold War. His numbers are (and always have been) ridiculously out of whack when measured against the results of other major polls, and they should be discarded as slanted and unreliable.

According to the Web site realclearpolitics.com, Obama's job approval ratings in various major polls over the last week or so are as follows.

CBS News: 56%
Ipsos-McClatchy: 56%
Gallup: 55%
CNN/Opinion Research: 53%
Pew Research: 52%
and, yes, Rasmussen: 46%

Obama isn't nearly as unpopular with Americans as Cal Thomas would like to believe. And citing the one and only poll that supports his argument doesn't change the facts.