outset there, the idea that there are so many jokes made about trump and some colleagues of mine, steven farnsworth and robert lichter, have a book documenting the fact that, yes, the comedians went so much after trump, more so than you would have seen during the clinton era. and we all know that clinton was fodder. >> the gift that kept on giving. >> but when you look at news coverage, and this is why when trump was saying the news is so biased against me, the news media is all fake news, if you look at content analyses of coverage of trump, yes, it was overwhelmingly negative. my undergraduates this spring -- i was like, is there an alternative hypothesis to the notion that all of these media outlets, all these journalists, have a liberal bias? is there an alternative hypothesis to explain why there is so much negative coverage of the trump administration? a student unmute himself and said, because he was a crappy president. how do we measure that? how do we count for that -- account for that? i will put a pin in that. these satirists are overwhelmingly liberal. i try to run away from this questi