Julian Zelizer: This reporting has started being used in policymaking, particularly by Republican legislators and sort of like activists. You can kind of see how even if you have this veneer of plausible deniability, the coverage is being used in really clear ways that are impossible to deny. Yeah, it's kind of like how the Bush administration used New York Times reporting to justify its invasion and occupation of Iraq,. And so therefore we're just responding to the thing.