I like that. I'm sure Brian Lamb would too
Yes, he'd like it--but it is a bias.Maybe I'm thick headed, but that's a good thing, right?Look at it this way: each of us has our own perspective. One man's "perspective" is the other person's "bias." That is my perspective--the one from which the First Amendment makes sense.
Had the framers of the Constitution had a different perspective, they would not have written and ratified the First Amendment as we know it. They would instead have instituted a single establishment newspaper to disseminate The Truth. As it is, we have to muddle through, reading between the lines and taking the perspective of each speaker/writer into account when we make up our own minds. That is the key point of the First Amendment; we make up our own minds.
So there are two ways of looking at C-Span's dogged refusal to admit to a conclusion. The way I was looking at it when I called it a "bias" is that Ann Coulter's Slander makes such strong claims--and claims such strong documentation for them--that the middle ground between accepting her claims and rejecting them is essentially excluded. You don't balance a pencil on its point and expect it to remain upright--it'll fall one way or the other. To draw no conclusion is a weird perspective--from my point of view, a "bias."
The way Brian Lamb looks at it is that he is eliciting the information from Ann for you, and you make up your own mind, without any "help" from him. But the human mind exists to draw conclusions. You just have to wonder what he yells at the mirror in his bathroom . . . he's probably like Sir Thomas Moore in A Man for All Seasons, can't even trust his wife with his political opinion.