one of the reasons he was on so much on cnn as he was on "meet the press" and elsewhere is because he would say what he felt and what he thought, and if that meant crossing his party or crossing his pals or saying that he had made a mistake, he would do that. now, that's insight at some level, didn't mean that he didn't like to spin, too, he did, but that kind of insight comes from very few sitting politicians and we know now painfully more than we have known in the past that so much of what passes for civil discourse or public debate is about talking points and spin and tested slogans and it's meant to rally the base, and john mccain didn't do that. when we did the show we would have, you know, left, right, republican, democrat, yes, no, on a particular issue that we were look booking and then we had a seat we fondly like to call the truth teller. times the truth teller was an independent analyst, sometimes an academic and sometimes it was john mccain just because he said what he...