There's a reason he was PBS's housepet "conservative" on KCET. He could be counted on to ignore any number of issues that motivate the grassroots but aren't discussed in Polite Company, that being the tea-sippers on PBS. And I don't mean tin-hat stuff, it's issues fundamental to grassroots Californians, like illegal immigration. Hugh carefully avoids the issue, but sometimes he can't contain himself and then he gloats that the leftist Judge Marianne Pfelzer and Gray Davis were able to conspire to kill Prop 187.
Hugh is the Dog That Didn't Bark- you rarely hear him opposing conservative issues, you mostly realize he studiously ignores a number of issues.