 Turns out she played to their stories perfectly. So because she played to the stories perfectly, the stories aligned. They took on a life of their own, that senators were appalled by her interviews, that she was way too liberal. They were very angry with George W. Bush. None of that was true at first, but it all kind of came to be, and she wound up withdrawing her nomination. They set the stage by lying to reporters with insider knowledge of things that had not actually happened. Reporters ran with it to sabotage her nomination.