brit hume. page one on the "the washington post" story is it a big deal. >> no. much a do about not very much. the post tried to blow it up into a big deal but i don't think it passed the smell test. >> bill: politically, is that why they did it or would you have have run that story on page one if you were the editor. >> if i were the editor i would have run the story. i might not have run it on page 1. inside page. make sure i had his full explanation of what it was. when you add it up it has to do whether his parents were -- whether they fled castro or whether they didn't go back because castro was there. i think it's a minor descrings and i think -- distinction and it's not worthy. in that sense it was a cheap shot. it's been -- the miami herald wrote a very strong story basically rebutting it, which is an unusual thing for another newspaper to do. particularly a liberal newspaper. i think the post ended up with kind of a black eye on this one. >> bill: okay. now, we have seen this with john mccain in 2008 where the "new york times" blew up this lobbist