Mark Engler argues that in the past 15 years, the rise of cable news has spawned a class of pundits who are not leftists but play them on TV. As the watchdogs at Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting have documented, political talk shows offer "balance" by routinely matching up representatives of the far right with centrist Democrats and New Republic editors.

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