we have done interval -- interviews with paul berman, never tom friedman but we have also syndicateddispatch which i call these guys for their pro-war apologies. and so when i saw the book which verso was kind enough to send me at wanted to run the intro. when you look at what is going on here, you see a liberal in certain ways. he is also not so liberal in other ways. you see an apologist with american power who a few months after the iraq -- told the whole nation to on this on charlie rose which is something that seems to have fallen off the radar. you see someone whose views seem to change and adapt to what the discourse seems to be at the moment with sort of and uncanny power of shape shifting, improvisation you see what right-wingers might consider to be maybe it hit more relativism or you see one standard applied to any one circumstance and another standard applied in another circumstance. you see someone who according to research married into one of the richest families in the country and therefore, may be biased when he talks about lowering taxes for instance, wealthy. you se