Y Kant Reporters Rite?

Senate Again Blocks Fairness Doctrine Ban

I truly hate it when I read things like "blocks a ban", because some people have to draw a flowchart to figure out whether they've voted for or against something.

This article tries to spell it out for the 'tards:

More senators wanted to consider fairness than didn't, according to last night's 49 to 48 vote, but an attempt by Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., to get the ban added to a higher education measure failed to get the 60 votes needed for consideration.

Wait, what? This paragraph actually says that the senators rejected the ban because they didn't want the ban. Seriously. Read it carefully.

And that's the whole point: no one reads these things carefully, no one reports them carefully, so no one votes for them carefully. That goes for Congress as well as the public. Sooner or later, enough negatives will be chasing their own tails that someone's agenda is going to get slipped in sideways *coughcoughpatriotactcough*.

In a related aside, have liberals not noticed that, if the conservative stations start having to allow liberal viewpoints, the liberal stations have to allow conservative viewpoints, too?

Just sayin'.