THIS WASHINGTON POST ARTICLE ON TALK RADIO says that it tilts right. Well, yeah. But what’s amusing is the rejoinder to a statement by Bill O’Reilly that NPR is all left:

Besides, he adds, dangling new bait, “[National Public Radio] is all left, top to bottom. That’s where the left goes. . . . They listen to Diane Rehm.”

Rehm, the host of an NPR-distributed show out of WAMU-FM in Washington, replies: “If a liberal is a talk radio host who represents more than just one view, then I am indeed a liberal. . . . I’ve never felt there’s just one way and one way only. [Some hosts] espouse one view over and over again, whereas our message is far more confusing because we’re open to ideas and let you make up your own mind.”

I don’t know. I don’t listen to Rehm, which isn’t available in Knoxville, but I’ve been on her show talking about gun control and her mind was pretty clearly made up there. And she made a point of letting me, and the listeners, know on the air just how much she disagreed with me.

To be fair, she had me on the show espousing a view she disagreed with, even if she obviously took the side of Tom Diaz, who was the pro-gun-control guest. But then, a lot of right-wing talk-radio hosts like Rush Limbaugh and Neal Boortz have liberal guests, and promise that liberal callers will go to the head of the line. And bias in NPR is different, isn’t it, since it’s (allegedly) public radio?