fox waters but what i don't think they've quite come to understand yet is it's a double-edged sword. there's no question that fox helps the republican party enormously but it's not 100% positive. there are some negatives, and i think we're starting to see some of them in this election cycle. >> you're bringing up -- basically you're describing negative negative consequences of having a channel that does reinforce viewers' beliefs. >> i cite a study in my paper where i talk about how fox viewers in the 2012 election cycle tended to have more wishful thinking so to speak. that is they were more confident unrealistically confident i think based on objective analysis of the polls, and you may remember there was this website, unskewed polls, remember that? >> right. >> where it was just widely widely believed in republican circles that all of the polls were biased against romney and