wallace described mccain as someone who acts in the ballpark of the way a real human being would act. cliche exists for a reason. in your piece, a very humanizing piece for a politician is genuinely who he is. >> right. in a sense the story is damming, if not more damming of the media, mythologist that grow up around washington than anything john mccain has perpetrated. every politician is a mythmaker to some degree. look, what i wanted to bring to life here is this is a human being who has lived an extraordinary life, yet another extraordinary moment of his career, possibly the end. look, washington is cliche central. okay. again, the media is front and center of this. >> said tough talking mark leibovich. >> it's frustrating to everyone. it's sort of a disservice to the