You might have wondered, as I did, why passing health care "without a vote" is taking so damn long.
But one place where they're not even capable of that level of reflection is Fox "News".
Watch as anchor Margaret MacCallum walks into the trap we discussed yesterday, but like most Foxbots, is undaunted by the inherent contradiction of her own reporting:
MacCallum: There are a lot of people who are upset about this idea that there wouldn't be a vote on the floor, and that people wouldn't be held accountable, necessarily, for that vote on the floor if they use this "deem and pass" thing -- this "deem and pass" procedure. They feel like it's a bit of a magic sort of thing.
That's the fight she tries to set up with Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA-07). But of course, she does so ignoring the fact that minutes earlier, she'd breathlessly reported the breaking news that Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH-10) was changing his vote on passage from a no to a yes.
Lost in her head (and millions of other heads who listen to her): What difference would it make if Dennis Kucinich were changing his vote, if they were telling the truth about the bill being passed without a vote?
The whole Republican play here -- and yes, Fox "News" is running the Republican playbook -- is to purposefully confuse the fact that a vote will be held with the much better-sounding story that there will be no vote.
And the rest of the media will turn their eyes away and pretend Fox reporters are their colleagues in good standing.
