aides about this. huffpost said, he has stuck to his guns while under attack in the press, laying out a case for the limits of american military power. so should they hold the administration accountable, or as the coverage been underproportioned? ma matthew j. dowd, you would describe the media coverage as what? >> over the top without introspective from the beginning. they added a perspective in the final days, but at the beginning they didn't have a perspective on it. my sense of it is we should judge it on the data of what's happened and not by anecdotes, and sometimes the press has a tendency to judge things by anecdotes and not the data. and the data for the last week