"John Batchelor has a talk show on WABC at night. "
So, he is an actual journalist, of the radio variety? Seems he's certainly not a leftist urinalist.
Batchelor is a writer. He's written a few novels, and some years ago wrote a history of the Republican Party.
Not sure of his journalistic credentials before he got his WABC radio gig (but who cares? journalistic credentials are a crock anyway).
Don't get your hopes up, though. Batchelor's show is serious and informative, but you have to take some of his guests with a very large grain of salt -
- the always hateful Katrina vanden Heuvel
- the semi-loony and often-wrong John Loftus
- the Scottish socialist and Bush-hater John (?) Robertson
- the leftist spinner Michael Vlahos
- among others.
And Batchelor himself, though an Iraq war-hawk, is a self-described "liberal Republican."
I listen most nights because there's almost always something interesting going on there.
BUT Batchelor is a very non-confrontational interviewer, and lets his leftie guests spew lies undisputed. So sometimes I get so annoyed I have to turn it off.