One way you can identify the leftist tilt on NPR stations is by listening to the callers that are taken on NPR-distributed talk shows. On the latest episode of Left, Right, and Center, coming out of KCRW out of California, the host (or “center”) David Greene set the agenda with a paranoid leftist caller. The “left” panelist, Mo Eleithee, was lamenting our “hyper-polarized times” where the “incentive structure” is for both Democrats and Republicans to avoid making compromises with each other.
Then came the “hyper-polarizing” caller, selected by Greene, a former NPR news anchor, 41 minutes in:
DAVID GREENE: We’ve got a question I wanted to play from one of our listeners about watching this trend of both parties getting away from any incentive to make compromises. Here he is.
CALLER: Hi, this is Dan Buggy [ph] calling from San Diego. After listening to…
