beyond, which was dominated by one man called jermimia wright. i'm sure you remember him. it was compounded by candidate obama saying people were bitter in america. this was the worst coverage of any candidate in any election. so i guess if you sit at that side and say that never happened, then you could make a case. but then you would also have to set aside the media's absolute fascination for sara palin, because for the initial week or two of her rollout, she was a super star. you know, and then candidate obama made jokes about the fact that she was getting more magazine covers than he was. there were -- let me scale this back a little bit and say, look, when you are winning things, generally the coverage gets a lot better. you know, it's true in sports, it's true in politics. obama won more than he lost. but when he was losing, the