Give them a break. Focus groups and polling take time to complete and analyze - how else will they know what facts to invent? Isn't there an old liberal saying, "Rome wasn't destroyed in a day"?
This is how the Bill of Rights goes away...through bureaucratic dictation. So far...they have moved on the First, Second, Fourth, and Fifth Amendments. These are the heart of the negative protections against federal tyranny.
Not that the MSM has much noticed.