reporters only ask gotcha questions and it really is the lamestream media? is that a tired argument? >> i think a lot of republicans believe that, and i think there is some truth to the notion that the kinds of questions that reporters ask, you can call them gotcha, you can call them comparing what somebody is saying today to what their record was three years ago. that's part of what we do, we hold politicians accountable. i think the questions you get from reporters tend to be different from the questions you get at a town hall from ordinary citizens, and we do tend to obsess on the tiffany type questions in the case of gingrich to sometimes overshadowing things people want to know, jobs, health care, medicare, the bread and butter issues that probably will end up driving this election in the end. >> howard kurtz, thanks for joining us this morning. we appreciate. >> it thank you. a high school basketball is so good at basketball he's getting a $750,000 offer to turn pro. really. sports is ahead. th unpublished .