On the other hand, it said, during the same period on CNN's "Wolf Blitzer Reports," 38 partisan guests were Republicans and 29 were Democrats.
FAIR also reported, in 2012, that the majority of partisan guests on the Sunday talk shows were conservative.
In recent years, Walley's columns appeared on-line in Cosmik Debris and New Partisan and he guest lectured at Williams College.
But remarkably for such events, which tend to be almost exclusively gatherings of like-minded partisans, Mr. Leopold's guest list crosses the spectrum politically, from ardent Democrats to ardent Republicans, and even includes a few as-yet undecided voters.
It found that 70percentt of the identifiably partisan one-on-one guests interviewed on the shows were Republicans.
The incredible partisan imbalance among the guests is another (it seems to be running about 2-to-1 Republican, and has been for at least a decade).
How can he and CNN compete in prime time when viewers seem to crave partisan political programs and when prominent guests -- the lifeblood of Mr. King's show -- would rather burnish their images on other channels?
It was apparent that two of his guests, representatives from opposite sides of the partisan aisle, and both sent to Washington to do the nation's business, had never even spoken directly to each other before.
They have been the very voice of the responsible center in Washington, frequent and sober-minded guests on "News Hour," never tipping their partisan hand, always careful to provide sympathetic criticism of Congress and make modest, helpful suggestions.
"Morning Joe" often plays host to spirited political debate, but many of the guests it features are journalists for magazines and newspapers, not partisan pundits.
