Regards,
Yeah, Roberts is a typical liberal journopolemicist, and Cokie's the daughter of Hale Boggs, the late House Majority Whip whose seat was inherited and held for about 30 years by her mom, Lindy, who was a down-the-line liberal Democrat repping for the Louisiana Second (New Orleans).
There's an illuminating story that Cokie never tells, about how Lindy got closed out by the NAACP. They sent a delegation of ministers and race hustlers over to tell her it was over, it was time for her to retire: "It's time for one of our own" is AFAIK a verbatim quote of what one of the poohbahs told Lindy to her face. He might have added, "we like your voting record just fine, but.........you're white!" New Orleans's black Democrats are as thoroughly racist as Lester Maddox and Marge Schottenheimer ever were, or maybe even Theo Bilbo and Robert Shelton; even 20 years before Lindy Boggs got punched out, Iris Kelso of the Times-Picayune was writing that it was no longer possible for a white person to be elected to city or parish (county) government in Orleans Parish.
But you'll never get Cokie Boggs Roberts talking about that stuff. She's a good liberal.
Actually, Steve Roberts did a good job, he was quite fair and polite to Ann, but he did say one or two loaded comments, maybe by accident...
One had to do with Bush and a recent poll, how 40% support the war now, I forgot what he asked exactly, but it was to Ann, and the few conservatives in the crowd booed him for that, he then said he was reporting, not commenting and gave a quick apology like statement.