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In the summer and autumn of 2004, I was part of a series of panel discussions on MSNBC, anchored by Chris Matthews, on the presidential campaign. One morning my colleague Jonathan Alter stopped in the doorway of my office to ask if I was OK. Yes, I replied; what made him ask? Don Imus, he told me, had apparently been—how to put it?-underwhelmed by my performance the night before, and had referred to me as a "dope" who should get off the air so that he could hear another colleague, Howard Fineman.