are divided as usual. i think the next two to eight weeks will be as i have said before a global blizzard and this virus. this pandemic movie is about over. a lot of us will have omicron. we will be fine. howard: joining us now to analyze the coverage in milwaukee emily, cultural editor of the federalist and in new york polyp larry, co-author of politicals playbook. the press is usually sympathetic to president biden. why is there such strong pushback, his argument that two years into the pandemic no one could possibly have known a highbred virus variant was coming and stockpiled a bunch of tests. it s an interesting case study in one of the best patterns in terms i always say when it s snowing in new york snowstorms become a mate major story and i think that s what happened with omicron is that it hit new york and dc hard and a lot of journalists are concentrated in dc and new york and because of