Politics meets game show

Somehow I don't think this is going to work. The folks at NPR's Wait Wait Don't Tell Me want to lose their "reputation" for being left-wing.

Yeah, that's close. As long as they're on NPR, that's gonna be a flipping near-impossible reputation to lose. Not to mention that, by and large, the reputation is deserved.

For instance, host Peter Sagal swears that he wants more Republican politicians on the show. So he says, and I quote exactly: "I would love it — if John Boehner would come on our show and be charming and funny in a way that we haven't seen. I would love that. If he told some jokes about his skin color, and people understood that he could do self-deprecation, and then went on his way and thought, that was a good experience."

Can you imagine Sagal commenting that he would like Al Sharpton to come on the show and make some jokes about his skin color? Sorry, Peter, this Boehner skin-tone routine ain't the pitch that's gonna fetch more GOP guests...or listeners. Anyway, I think Wait Wait Don't Tell Me should just drop this goofy pretense of trying for political neutrality. Nobody believes it, including the people at the show itself.