text: Look- you've got to understand what's going on here. The DP does NOT want to endorse this woman. They just know she will be confirmed regardless. Same as with Gorsuch. The real game is to create the ILLUSION of balanced professional journalism. Trick is to give approval to foregone conclusions and ever so rarely- the conservative candidate or position when considering what is necessary to maintain the facade. It must be so tiresome to do so. However, these "journalists" can always wreck them later as needed. The important point is that they think this "plausible deniability" pre-emptive stunt as a defense against obviously righteous claims of lack of journalistic professionalism, frees them up to go on with the real agenda- constant crafting against conservatives (aka "normal people"), Trump, Christians, traditional values etc... as evidenced by the daily drumbeat of dreck in the DP and the MSM. Cleary, ordinary bumpkins could never figure this laughable charade out.