at politico were oner their go-to reporters. someone they would leak things to, someone they felt was a useful pawn for them. we asked ben about this and in the course of that it turned out he obtained a copy of a 90 page memo about a year ago and never printed a vast majority of its contents. that's a betrayal of the core idea of journalism, which is find news that's newsworthy and bring it to your readers. for whatever reason he did not report that information. we think that's one of several examples of mainstream, so-called mainstream reporters doing the bidding of media matters. >> i want to be fair to all of our viewers to explain that what media matters reports is their business. that's fine. i mean, in a country where we value free speech, they are free to say things even if they are untrue and reckless, all of which they have done. but here's the rub and this is what i think is the heart of the