He books articulate, educated, soft-spoken leaders of radical protest groups on his show all the time. Recently he schmoozed with the moral-equivalency author of an "Islam is a religion of peace" type of book for most of his program.
Instead of the usual radio interview/discussion time of a segment or two, he gives them an hour, sometimes more, to deseminate veiled or un-veiled anti-America, anti-war or anti-Bush propaganda.
Now I realize Medved likes to debate the enemy at length, and he's pretty good at it. But the crafty enemy guests don't care one whit what poor Michael is saying in rebuttal, all they want to do is get their messages out......and let me tell you, some of these messages make a great deal of sense to the uneducated who get sucked in. That's why these radicals are leaders, they're smooth-talkers and know how to snare converts. Michael gives them their golden opportunities.
Medved probably thinks he's being "fair and balanced", but he's naive to think his show is not being used by the left.
His show is dreadfully boring, to boot. He's one of those droners. I doubt if his show has exceptional ratings.
BTW, I've read Medved's past books on Hollywood and the Left. They were absolutely excellent and strongly conservative.
However on the other hand, his bland left-coast show leads me to believe he backs off a little when it comes to live radio. IMO, his program remains on the air because he doesn't make too many waves, he appears "fair", plus lefties, radicals and commies are always welcome to participate at length in his studio.
His media mogul bosses may like this totally cozy scenario.
Leni
My main problem with him is, that while he can be a very witty writer, his film reviews seem to hurried, and he doesn't devote enough space explaining why he has taken a particular position on a film, leaving him open to the type of potshots he frequently takes from the far left. He does that much better in his longer essays.