Arianna Huffington is a little too busy being a media mogul these days to sit in on the weekly KCRW political debate show, Left, Right & Center. Her place to the left of host Matt Miller (but not usually as far over on that side as Robert Scheer) is being taken on an interim basis by Mary Matalin, the veteran Republican strategist who is married to Democratic strategist James Carville. Matalin has joined the other conservative, Tony Blankley, to balance out the panel in recent weeks and will be on Friday's show, which airs on KCRW at 2:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. Matalin also co-hosts “Both Sides Now" on syndicated radio with Huffington, who says she plans a return to LR&C when her schedule allows.
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