Liberal, and proud of it

摘要

Phil Donahue says MSNBC's new, fiercely independent positioning suits him just fine. "I haven't been out kissing babies for the last three years," he said. "I've even been booed by my own audience many times." Donahue's ardent liberalism may be fodder for critics, but he's not apologizing. He campaigned proudly for liberal presidential hopeful Ralph Nader in 2000. He wants church and state kept separate, especially in schools. Sept. 11 pushed the country well to the right, he says. "No one wants to be called a liberal. Conservative is good, and liberal is bad. Conservatives criticize government, and liberals criticize business," he said last week at the Television Critics Tour in Pasadena, Calif. "To [conservatives], we have a few words: Enron, WorldCom."