This is really the heart of it, that the president has done enough damage to actual reporting, that is, by denying the evident reality of so much that's been reported and so much that happens, he has successfully made it very, very difficult for a lot of folks to figure out what to believe and what not to believe. so by discrediting things that are self-evidently true, he can now argue things that are the no true and do so in a very confused public arena that enables his base, and his base plus, really, to think, you know, what -- >> sure, because it's confusing to everybody now. >> -- the pre...