1.  Do you think Mr. Taranto makes a fair assertion by implying that the Associate Press would not have described the 10-year-old's fight to receive the lung transplant as "a national debate" if a Republican official had taken the position that a child should be denied potentially life-saving surgery? Explain your answer.

2.  Do you think Mr. Taranto successfully illustrates bias by spin in his excerpt?  Explain your answer.