A recent Syracuse University study determined that only 3.4% of journalists are Republicans. It gets worse for the Right. One of those GOP journalists is not even real. 

For the last 30 years, Mallard Fillmore has worked as a reporter for WFDR-TV Channel 3 in Washington, D.C. Fillmore is a duck, the creation of award-winning cartoonist Bruce Tinsley. More extraordinary, Fillmore is a conservative. There are plenty of cartoon characters in the nation’s capital, but the combination of Fillmore’s politics and profession makes him a rara avis.