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Originally Posted by Brian-Chidester
I liked hearing from the fans, the sportswriters and the poets. If it was just professional baseball players, you wouldn't have gotten the voice of the people who filled the seats and made the players heroes.
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The bias comes in because they're all of a particular political stripe, and not only that, but many are activists.
Probably the only reason he let George Will on the program is because he agreed to describe himself as a bitter conservative.
I'm sure you'd be less than impressed with Burns historical objectivity if his interviewee list included Pat Buchanan, Barry Goldwater, and William F. Buckley among other conservatives, then allowed Doris Goodwin on as long as she described herself as a bitter liberal.