let's ask our political panel, brian baker, president of the ending spending.isher and author. karen let me start with you on this since it seems you would have something to do with foreign policy in your former job and with your new book. what do you make of the fact that the media seemed to give that comment a pass and quite frankly, many would argue, other comments the president has made? >> the media, i think, is working overtime to convince the country that the election is over, so the tendency is to focus on romney's, quote, gaffe on what happened at the embassy in cairo and not on the fact that -- whether it's bumps in the road or any of these, quote, gaffes, it's not the gaffes that matter. it's the substance of the policy in the middle east that matters, and we are neither respected nor feared in the middle east anymore because the president continues to refuse to use the terrorism word. so all it does is make people in the region who need to either fear or respect us think we're naive. >> gretchen: sasha, why will the president not call it a terrorist