were too young to cover camelot and john kennedy, they were too young and most cases to cover bobby kennedy and so i think they were starstruck by this obama phenomenon. then he said, let's face it, is there a democratic and liberal bias in the media? of course, there is. and then rothenberg said, i am sure journalists pervert obama, they liked him, they are democrats. obama got better treatment. so there are acknowledging their bias, right? what i call their activism, but it gets worse than that. rothenberg and says, but you know, it is what it is coming it is the nature of the political environment. republicans ought to know that and then his friend charlie cook said, is what it is. now, is what it is, is just a few words and i couldn't figure out why i've been so unsettled by these keywords. it does bother me in a way i could not define why i was so troubled by it and then a few days later hit me -- i couldn't think of any other kind of bias, any other kind of bias where any decent person would write it off so cavalierly with the phrase, it is what it is. no decent person would ever say,