anyone who watched hannity and combs would never consider skandia column cynical exchange of left and right ideas. in the book i describe how candidates producers created this elaborate ruse to keep columns on board and make alan combs feel like an equal partner in the show when in fact sean hannity was the coexecutive producer of the show. sean hannity would take the talking points and topics and producers would go to alan thompson say what is your feedback? the whole structure of the shows stick data by sean hannity. it also sort of stacked the deck so conservatives always win while allowing himself to have some liberals on there to give him the talking point to say listen we get both sides. >> host: what do you make of the fact that people say they have good journalist in the washington bureau. not everyone likes the storyline you set out here. >> guest: it goes back to ill shameless as a political messenger. i want to step back and talk about his work on richard nixon in 1968, which will help people understand why fox can be a political organization while having liberals and repor