This is probably the one kind of political segment on WNYC that will not generate a lot of comments from the usual handles you see on the Brian Lehrer Show segment pages or occasionally on pages for this program. Why? Because it's pulls back the curtain on the farce that is our political system.

It's a sorry state of affairs when civic engagement is based on the love or hatred of personalities. Every politician is a crum except my local guy and the national candidate of my choosing who is just like me because I can be president, I know I can.

People claim to want real people in politics. All they really want are people phonier than themselves.

"Telling a story and interpreting it in a smart way." IOW, telling half truths. Half-fiction, half-facts.

"Telling a story and interpreting it in a smart way." IOW, telling half truths. Half-fiction, half-facts.