This writer does not seem especially bright. Did he not already know that about O’Reilly and Hannity? My favorite FOX News program is Special Report. I would like to watch “The Five” more, but Beckel makes me too angry. Redeye used to be pretty funny, but I’m tired of leftie Andy Levy claiming to be a “Libertarian”. Why do so many leftists call themselves “Libertarians”?
I didn't get that impression. I can sort of understand it though.
1) Andy works in the media in New York, so he's not going to be very conservative on social issues like gay marriage. He's also not going to sound much like conservative Evangelicals who live in other parts of the country.
2) Snowden and the NSA come up on that show a lot. If Levy is talking Snowden up and government surveillance down, he's going to sound like a leftist, even though plenty of libertarians would agree with him.
3) There are utopian or maximalist libertarians who are keen on dismantling the welfare state and instituting laissez-faire, but a some libertarians live within the realm of what's considered politically possible in the real world. The maximalist program really doesn't come up much on the show, and I doubt it's very high on Andy's agenda.
I suspect he's like a lot of people who vote Republican but don't share the hope of some kind of restoration of an older order. That doesn't mean they're leftists, though.
The guy who supports gay marriage and opposes government surveillance is going to sound like a leftist to a lot of conservatives, but I doubt leftists are really going to recognize him as one of their own, since he doesn't subscribe to their economic program either.