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Rebels? >> i think we've gotten a lot more sophisticated since the days we used to handguns to rebels to overthrow governments. that should be the last thing we do. i think it's really the lowest common denominator in trying to remove him from power. there are so many other things we can and are doing to continue to put pressure on him. i wouldn't look at these -- the government advances as complete losses. it's going to happen. they have, you know, certainly still a military superiority. but remember, they can't hold that area. they don't have a lot of support in that area. we're cutting off ...

Congress, military power of the people's republic of china now called annual report of security developments in china. why the title change? >> well, i think it's part of the obama administration's general view which he has expressed going back to the 2008 campaign that the united states really does not face real threats in the world. and so i suppose the pr spin is if there aren't any real threats, why have aggressive-sounding documents like that report, and if you change the name, maybe the reality will follow the name change. that, of course, is ridiculous, especially when it comes to china...

We find out these are the worst actors. the question is, the obama administration, the democrats on capitol hill, were trusting bp to take care of this the first four weeks of the crisis. were they buying in to the pr spin of bp, too? the question, why didn't they know what you guys knew at "rolling stone"? why didn't they know what "the new york times" is writing about this morning? why didn't they know that bp were bad actors for decades? and they couldn't trust them to handle the spill? >> and why were they using the same bad science that had been promulgated by the bush administration to a...

Him. >> he's already said publicly he's responsible, right? >> right, but the problem we face is the media sees this as a drama with hayward and the people and assess rightly that the quality of their pr spin and things like that and obama seems to have gotten elected and thinks he can govern giving speeches with teleprompters and stuff and nobody, either the media has the capacity to do what matters most. fill up the oil spill and that discussion is not of interest to the sort of theater critics to washington and new york. >> as jon said, obama himself said i'm in charge. i'm responsible, it'...

Him. >> he's already said publicly he's responsible, right? >> right, but the problem we face is the media sees this as a drama with hayward and the people and assess rightly that the quality of their pr spin and things like that and obama seems to have gotten elected and thinks he can govern giving speeches with teleprompters and stuff and nobody, either the media has the capacity to do what matters most. fill up the oil spill and that discussion is not of interest to the sort of theater critics to washington and new york. >> as jon said, obama himself said i'm in charge. i'm responsible, it'...