And thus, through careful rationalization, your preconceived world view need not be challenged. That must make you feel better.
In other words, "Left, Right & Center" is all the programing needed to satisfy your claim that NPR has a show that is not really run by a conservative, but allows one to be on a panel. Great.
As lame as Combs was as a polemicist, FOX News gave him equal time with the blow hard, Hannity. NPR can't even consider giving a conservative their own show, much less having one as a true co-host. The only way NPR can countenance a show with a full time conservative is if there is a liberal moderator at the helm and two other liberals to pull on the port side oars. What is NPR afraid of?