That's never a final nail in the coffin though.
And, even if he was facing final elimination from the race, why would the news channels have to play that so often? I never got the reasoning (especially with the supposed liberal bias) for showing that one scene repeatedly while giving a President basically a free pass on so much bullshit concerning an actual war, all of which is preserved on video.
Bush was already the nominee for the GOP in 2000 when he was caught on microphone/video calling a guy an 'asshole' & that clip wasn't aired a fraction of the time as Howard's 'YEAH!'