skopcol has emphasized, and i'd like to hear more, how conservative traditional media have become very important in a way that traditional media have not worked for the left. i think to some degree people on the left, when they describe so much influence with fox news, are creating the monster they seek to destroy, but in this case, the use of broadcast hosts as organizers for a movement, i think this is something we haven't seen before, and i think it did play a major part in magnifying the role of the tea party. >> interesting point. >> it certainly did, and i think that it was possible in part because there was a kind of fit between the people who watch fox news, their age and their political orientation, and the usefulness of the tea party to draw the message and make profits for fox news. so it all fit together. i don't think you see that same kind of fit on the center and the left, and i'm citing studies by the pugh center and others, younger people use a much more fragmented variety of places to get news, so there wouldn't be the same kind of advantage in having a host on one ou