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I thought you might be interested in the article from the FAIR web site. The following article will be appended to your message: Field Guide to TV's Lukewarm Liberals Pundit-watchers never tire of the sport of spotting establishment, status quo commentators posing in their none-too-convincing camouflage as representatives of the left. While right-winged pundits cackle in full-throated yelps and are frequently leaders of their flocks, the specimens that serve as their competition often have their left wing clipped, teeter precariously on the fence and sing out of both sides of their mouths. For those new to the joys of spotting TV's tepid liberals, here's a brief guide to some members of this plentiful species. (Spotting actual left-winged pundits in mainstream media is too difficult to be enjoyable for most hobbyists.) Sam Donaldson False Feathers: "Resident liberal" on ABC's This Week, according to the Washington Post (1/21/96). True Colors: Donaldson is mostly seen as liberal because of his years of shouting inaudible questions at President Reagan. Hawkish on foreign policy, he used to refer to the Soviet Union under Mikhail Gorbachev as "a terrorist system" (This Week, 11/27/88) and to Nicaragua's elected President Daniel Ortega as "the Nicaraguan dictator" (This Week, 12/4/88). Donaldson's no environmentalist, either: A big recipient of federal subsidies for his sheep ranch, he's received federal help to exterminate wildlife, authorizing leghold traps, neck snares, cyanide, aerial gunning and the killing of young in their dens to rid the ranch of coyotes, bobcats, mountain lions and black bears (Extra!, 5-6/97). Referring to the reintroduction of endangered species, he told David Letterman (11/28/95), "If they introduce the Mexican wolf, you'll never see a Mexican wolf on my ranch. You might see some newly spaded ground." To read the rest of the article, please click on the link below. http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2499 This article was published on Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting's Website (http://www.fair.org).

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