Biased AP headline of the day: "Republicans block bill to lift military gay ban"

The repeal of "don't ask, don't tell" went down in flames yesterday, falling 4 votes of the 60 required in the Senate to advance the measure to a vote. Same with the DREAM act that has become known as "amnesty lite." Here's the thing though, the vote for cloture only garnered 56 votes. Democrats control 59 seats. So how does the AP claim it was Republicans that blocked the measure? They did just that, even though 3 Democrats voted with Republicans: Republicans block bill to lift military gay ban

Senate Republicans have blocked an effort to repeal the law banning gays from serving openly in the military.

The partisan vote was a defeat for gay rights groups who saw the provision in a defense authorization bill as their last chance any time soon to overturn the law known as "don't ask, don't tell."

The only thing partisan was that all the yea votes were Democrats. The opposition to the repeal of DADT and the DREAM act was in fact Bipartisan with Blanch Lincoln, Mark Pryor and Harry Reid voting nea with all the Republicans. The nea votes of the 3 Democrats are totally missing from the AP piece written by Anne Flaherty. How is this just Republicans blocking the measure again?

UPDATE: Bob on DADT:

http://theblogprof.blogspot.com/2010/09/biased-ap-headline-of-day-republicans.html

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