The AP is Psychic!

Boy, it must be a real benefit to a wire service to have psychics on staff who can predict the news before it even happens. Take for instance this opening line from an AP story this morning:

Undersecretary of State John R. Bolton faced tough questioning Monday from Senate Democrats on his nomination to be the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Republicans were looking for swift approval from the Foreign Relations Committee.

What's psychic about that? This story was posted before the hearings even opened.

Now it wouldn't exactly take a psychic to predict that Bolton will get some tough and stupid questions from the Dems, but wouldn't it give the AP just a little bit more credibility if it at least waited until the predicted event happened before writing about it?