Liberals are passionate in their scorn
for him — which tells you how worried they are. A spat has broken out over whether the media demonstrated liberal bias in their
coverage of Senator Ted Cruz’s marathon anti-Obamacare speech. Conservatives
are contrasting the heckling and slurs leveled against Cruz with the
overwhelmingly positive reaction won by his fellow Texan Wendy Davis for her
ultimately unsuccessful filibuster of a bill in the Texas state senate
restricting abortions performed after 20 weeks.
Liberals who reject the bias charge make two main points.
First, they say, the most negative commentary against Cruz came from opinion
writers, not news reporters. Second, they add, Davis’s 13-hour physically
grueling feat constituted a genuine filibuster while Cruz’s semi-orchestrated
effort wasn’t a bona fide attempt to derail Obamacare.
Let’s deal with both arguments
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