to vote. not necessarily african american, but people came out to vote, particularly young people, that never had before because they were motivated by his candidacy. you declined to raise the reverend wright issue, if i recall. you have to look back on things and be proud of them. if i had attacked him over reverend wright and some of that stuff, that would not have been a campaign that i would have been proud of. that history s been wrand think it s accurate, that days before the announcement of sarah palin you were still thinking of your good friend joe leishman and you wanted lieberman, but the blowback from conservatives was going to be ferocious. i think it was not only going for ferocious, it was going to be a cause a problem in the convention because joe leishman was pro choice. and that would have it was certainly not clear whether we could have had sufficient votes
something. but i do think, megyn, that it just shows how uniformly unfair so many in the media are that they have turned this they ve grasped this and turned it into such a huge story, all day yesterday and today, trying to pin this ad on basically on the romney campaign. and i think jim is go ahead. megyn: many are trying to use this as way to talk about republicans and mitt romney, as you point out, in his campaign, and there are some incendiary things in this proposal. it s not just hey, let s bring up the reverend wright issue, this go round. that s somewhat controversial, but the proposal, referring to sur sit sur sitting president as a metro sexual abe lincoln, which it talks about how are we going to avoid claims of bias against us in this ad campaign and it says well, let s hire a literal conservative african-american to be our