to pull off a major stunt on an airplane. speaking of christmas, did you happen to hear this. nina totenberg had this to say, almost a direct apology for almost calling the party she was going to what we all used to call these parties which are christmas parties. >> who is she? the legal affairs correspondent at npr? >> she is. >> listen to her. >> we have to plan and know what kind of tax cuts we have. these agencies including the defense department don't know how much money they've got and for what and forgive the expression, i was at a christmas party at the department of justice and people were actually really worried about this. >> forgive the expression? so this is what we've come to now in 2010 that we need to apologize for saying christmas. >> is she -- is she embarrassed to invoke any sort of religious terminology? i don't get it. i mean, saying christmas party is offensive as eggnog.