An Obama operative/Holder defender named Julian Epstein used to come on Greta van Susterin, and every time he repeated the factually false claim that Fast and Furious was a GWB program (not that GWB can't do very wrong things but in this case he didn't). The same conservative guy would appear and let him get away with it. Finally, about the 4th time I saw this happen (there may have been others I did not see) the conservative guy tried to make the point, but kind of awkwardly. Probably writes good books but doesn't have the fire for TV (or maybe he and the leftist guy are personal friends, who knows).
On NBC MTP Lowery was outnumbered and one of the libs replies to him claiming CBO numbers showing how much deficit reduction the Senate bill would cause, and when Lowery tried to respond Gregory gave the floor to another of the four libs on the panel with a completely different question.
How did Reagan do it? On TV, he came out consistently on top. Maybe he would have had enough sense to avoid such an ambush.
Its one thing to go on NBC/ABC/CBS in a one to one showdown with a Dem, but these fools like Rich Lowrey are so starving to get on air they agree to join a roundtable discussion with 4 Dems (one was Schmidt see below) and Gregory and about 5 minutes per topic for them all, 1 minute per topic each. Its counterproductive.
There are ‘Republicans’ like Nicole Wallace (GWB/McCain 2008) and Steve Schmidt (McCain 2008) just go on those shows to claim they are Republicans to agree with Dems on every-single issue Gays, illegals, etc, Wallace praises GWB for being so progressive too. Nothing they say indicates that they are not just another progressive Dem.
So when one of them is the other 'conservative' its time to cancel your appearance'