The media claimed to be non-partisan, centrist. It's not been that way for a lot of history.

Obviously I think politics is interesting and important and educational.

Iraq's always been very secular.

And on this issue of the Shia in Iraq, I think there's been a certain amount of, frankly, Terry, a kind of pop sociology in America that, you know, somehow the Shia can't get along with the Sunni and the Shia in Iraq just want to establish some kind of Islamic fundamentalist regime. There's almost no evidence of that at all. Iraq's always been very secular.

There's a sort of romanticizing of the past. When you actually think about the past, you know it's a little different.

White women are a problem, that's, you know - we all live with that.

The liberal media were never that powerful, and the whole thing was often used as an excuse by conservatives for conservative failures.