"In the last months of the [MSNBC "Donahue"] program, before it was terminated on the eve of the Iraq war," said Cohen, "we were ordered by management that every time we booked an antiwar guest, we had to book 2 pro-war guests. If we booked two guests on the left, we had to book 3 on the right. At one meeting, a producer suggested booking Michael Moore and was told that she would need to book 3 right-wingers for balance."
"I considered suggesting Noam Chomsky as a guest," Cohen continued, "but our studio couldn't accommodate the 86 right-wingers we would have needed for balance."
