This goes back to the media getting cowed into asserting that "Borking" is a pejorative, when what Ted Kennedy did was to accurately summarize Robert Bork's publically stated views, which Bork continued to reiterate in very temperate and closely argued books like "Slouching Toward Gomorrah"
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if say Peter Baker elaborated on the tenets of Doug Wilson's 'Christianity' directly, without his usual passive obscurations, it would be impossible to sound to Neutral or Balanced. You'd sound like a deranged democratic partisan foaming at the mouth if you literally just listed their beliefs
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Such recitation is received with an understood "look at how ludicrous this is", perhaps intended.