Well, he responded to say that he considered Fox News to be the center. From that perspective, any international source (even the BBC and Der Speigel) looks left, as does the rest of television, and any wide-circulation print media. Even the Wall Street Journal and such looks left of Fox News, since it's primarily purely fiscally conservative, compared to Fox's preference for a blend of conservatism and authoritarianism (*).

(For perspective, one of the Speigel's leads right now is "NATO CHAOS DEEPENS IN AFGHANISTAN: The Germans Have to Learn How to Kill", favoring an increase in combat missions for the German troops in Afghanistan.)

America doesn't really have a far left, in the sense that most European countries do. While the Senate now has a self-described Socialist member-elect (Bernie Sanders), for the most part it's a choice between intermediate capitalism and strong capitalism. A combination of religion and xenophobia has bred a far right capable of electing officials regionally, however.

Most political "tests" (and my undergraduate TAs) categorize me as a barely left-leaning, but strongly Libertarian (**)-- small, socially permissive government, economic capitalism with a moderate safety net. I just look far left next to Shooty McKlansman over here.

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(*) I view neither the outgoing Congress nor the current Executive branch as "conservative", since they do nothing to limit the scope of government (in fact, they expand it), and have attempted to change long-standing principles in a radical fashion. I think the Executive Branch is best-described as "authoritarian"-- primarily interested in consolidating power in a single entity with limited or absent accountability.

(**): Very separate axes, really.