hayes and that disputed election, whether it was more recently with the red scare. or as mr. ford said, with watergate. it is hard to say this is the worst of times. i really sort of reject that if we look at this country on an historical basis. we are incredibly resilient as a people and as a nation because of the way that our founding documents, the way the constitution was awarded. -- was worded. if anything, having thought about this the last month, if anything i came away somewhat reassured. it is so easy to pick examples because we have so many different media sources. it is to the point where every individual, to build upon what bruce said, everybody has their own iphone and can create their own media. instead of having the three networks, we now have 300 million networks potentially. as a result, we are bombarded with bad news and good news is somehow filtered out the way that spam used to be. i refuse to believe that we have lost civility compared to before. i think if anything, is just a swing of the pendulum once more. >> i agree, i know that it has changed. in thi