Cheerful Long Right man in Hollywood.  It might be true that
Ruth Seymour, general manager of the Santa Monica public radio
station KCRW, isn't as insularly Left as many people assume.
Because the comic commentator she recently hired to replace the
basically apolitical Sandra Tsing Loh (now at rival L.A. public
radio station KPCC in Pasadena) — fired by Seymour this spring
for saying the f-word on-air — is sitcom writer and longtime
National Review contributor Rob Long. They both began their new
radio gigs earlier this month.  Rob — who, like Sandra, I've
known for years — also writes humorous essays about politics and
Hollywood for the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times,
and Newsweek's international edition, which is edited by his old
friend and Yale classmate Fareed Zakaria. And he's a Rightie
even Lefties like, because his skewering of Hollywood's
political pieties isn't hard to imagine coming from some liberal
late-night talk-show host.  Here's how he explained (in NR
recently) why the entertainme