we love getting your tweets about this show. keep them coming @howardkurtz. maybe i'll read one before we get to the end of the program. we'll get to that sad shooting near the capitol in a moment. but first if there's one image that's almost a parody of the media nair ty in the great government shutdown, it is this, a bloodstained john boehner as presiding over a house of turds. refusing to finance the government unless obama care is defunded or delayed. and that has produced some contentious interviews such as this one with cnn's ashleigh banfield. >> you're telling your listeners that we republicans are holding this up and the government's going to shut down, we have actually reached out to the democrats with a compromise position -- >> congressman, that's not fair. don't you dare put this back on me. you know full well -- no, you know full well you've attached it to obama care and defunding it. you can't make something up. >> ted cruz ripped the coverage