I don't know. Joe Average turns on the TV set and hears avowed liberals bashing Novak (garnerning sympathy from the Right in the process), see Novak spouting a few Conservative platitudes, and then fall hook, line, and sinker for his various roles as either being a deliberate fall guy who tosses out setup lines that the liberals can easily refute, or who fall for his same old trick of acting as though Bush's "base" is offering legitimate criticism (which the Left on his shows never seem to mind or disagree with for some reason)...