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If you wanted live coverage of the dramatic filibuster of anti-abortion legislation in Texas last night, the best thing you could do was turn off your television and jump online. Neither CNN nor Fox News nor MSNBC carried special coverage during the lengthy public shouting-down of the bill, which would have restricted abortions in the state to 20 weeks or prior and would have required all abortion clinics to be registered as surgical centers, effectively shutting down most of them (MSNBC's Rachel Maddow did devote a segment on her primetime show to the filibuster, incorporating footage from the senate's own internal network).
State Senator Wendy Davis (D-Fort Worth) filibustered the bill for a solid 11 hours to the sounds of cheering from a gallery of protestors, whom Lt.
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