You have to remember that Wattenberg has always been a leftist, and his reason for entering the fray back in '96 was only to attack the oil companies. - That's why they love him on KGO.
Have to disagree with you there. Wattenberg was the only KGO host to support Bush over gore (tho I must admit, I can only get KGO at nite).
He also supports nuclear power, hardly a leftist position.
I don't think I do, although I wouldn't call him a leftist per se. He does support government control of education, because he enjoys the priviledges he thinks are due the university professorate. He did very well by that public education and therefore thinks it is a fine institution. He doubles his estimate of himself by coupling his academic credentials with his obvious practical knowledge, which is indeed too rare among academics. He touts his ideas as if he were the only guy on the planet so endowed, but you know, they are usually (not always) technically sound ideas.
He is a typical liberal in that he doesn't connect the injustices he sees with the consequences of policies he advocates, believing that nothing he advocates could possibly be wrong and that if there is a problem it because it was caused by people who aren't as smart as him. He doesn't understand that many of those problems are endemic to the management system he prefers. That blindness coupled with his practical ability and congenial condescension makes him a perfect spokesman for socialist elitism.
In his defense, he does do a great service pointing out scientific frauds. He also has the guts to admit it when he is wrong. It's not all bad.