shellacking. and everything we're doing is completely ignoring that message. maybe it will require another election. >> you know there's tough. he's angry. guys, he's angry. >> it's personal. >> he's mad at us. give me a reason that he might be mad at us the media and i try to see this through the other guy's eyes. in the race against george w., a lot of us in the media saw mccain as the reasonable senator and rooting for him the reasonable senator. prepared to be president. this guy has the resume to kill. been a war hero. suffered for his country. the guy that a lot of americans said was traditional american and we rooted like hell for him and then he goes up against barack obama who a lot of us saw as the new kind of american, the new breed american, the guy who is representing another part of the american dream, which is opportunity for minorities and sort of a new breeze. but also like the traditional, you know a lot of americans like both. but this guy was coming -- and mccain had missed his chance. he wasn't as good in 2008 as he was in 2000.