Out of the loop

He used to make the occasional refreshing point... decades ago on politically incorrect.

The one that lost him that role honestly, pointing out that you can call the 9/11 suicide attackers a lot of things, deluded, fanatical, etc, but cowards doesn't fit and there are plenty of derogatory concepts that fit, just not cowards.

I like when people point out that language and words have meanings and your enemies aren't just all the bad words you know.

Since those days though, his politics shifted rightward from somewhat progressive to Neoliberal in the early days of Real Time to Conservative about 10 years ago, while still calling himself a real progressive. In recent years he's been doing shrieking the opposite of his once insightful 9/11 point and telling anyone who will listen that all followers of Islam are a dangerous extremist group and a wholesale threat to civilization.

I stopped being able to stand tuning into him years ago.