Hat tip to the AP and the UK for reporting that Texas Abortion bill passed with your canned ham

[LaydeeBug]

reporting. You guys made for an interesting night.

[Jackpine Radical]

1. So, beyond knowing about the vote itself & the date fakery,

I'm sufficiently out of the loop that your post is unintelligible to me.

But I suppose everyone else on the board understands it.

Those of us who don't even know how to turn on the TV are often nonplussed by whatever it is that has you normal people all frothed up.

[LaydeeBug]

2. Happy to clear things up...last night, they reported, and like 5 mins after midnight that the bill

had passed, and the sweeping reforms were eminent. No mention of the time controversy. Nothing. Completely canned ham reporting.

Defeat for the dems was a foregone conclusion, and they had pre written the reports to prove it.

[1-Old-Man]

3. What has a television got to do with this posting?

You can discern what the OP is about by simply reading the titles to about half of the current postings in the General Discussion Forum.

[Bluenorthwest]

5. How is the UK a news reporting agency? To say 'the UK reported this' is odd stuff.

Did Number 10 issue a statement on Texas' vote? I hardly think so. Like the US, the UK has many diverse news sources, all across the political spectrum. If nothing else, the UK reference is confusing as the UK is a nation not a news outlet.

[HardTimes99]

4. I think LaydeeBug is alluding to a certain 'Dewey Defeats Truman' flavor to

AP's coverage, since the bill's status was in dispute given the time at which final voting began and concluded.

I woke up this morning to find that it has failed after having gone to sleep last night thinking it had passed (thanks to AP's blown coverage).