"new york times" wouldn't cover that story in that scenario, perhaps. >> come on, there is no way is that a joke? >> playing devil's advocate here. we don't know for sure, do we? we do? >> you hinted at something that's important. let me try to expand on it for the past five years, a little more than five years, there has been a tendency among the so-called mainstream media journalists to play stories the way the obama administration wants the stories to be played so if he thinks this is a phony scandal, they will treat it as a phony scandal. i know it sounds simple, but that's what it is. >> do you think there is back door stuff? do you think members of the obama administration actually call editors and certain reporters and discuss this stuff with them