Whenever I have heard him—not often—he’s bashing Bush so much you’d think he was a FReeper. :D
The C2C shows are a lot like a slot machine: long bouts of non-science with a too-infrequent appearance by a true scientist. Art is a "conservative" alien-chaser, and at least Art is anti-terror and implicitly the WOT. His weekday replacement, loony Noori, sounds like Terry McCauliffe.
I'd be concerned about staying in the Philippines. 'Too high a profile of an American to pass up a kidnapping by Jamaah Islamaya; even worse, his daughter for ransom.
Bell contrasted his feelings about Bush vis-a-vis Noory's bashing of Bush. Bell disagreed with Bush policies (Iraq for example) but he did not dislike the President.