issued the confirming statement to your paper? you know, it never came to that point. i mean, you know, they realized, again, they knew that we had information that was true. it was true so it never came to that point. last question. in 2003 a week before the recall election, the l.a. times famously reported those stories about the 15 or so women who said that arnold schwarzenegger had either groped them or behaved in a sexually inappropriate way. with the benefit of hindsight, do you think the paper should have stayed on that and possibly found out about the out-of-wedlock child? i want to say a couple things. the amazing thing about that story still to this day is true. the governor didn t deny it. he admitted it. people got angry at us. if you want to renew now, we ll have it on your door tuesday or so. so call on up. should we have followed up? we did follow up. and here s the basic thing about reporting. you know, the best reporter in america, whether it s bob woodward or