Chuck Todd Bombs on 'Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!'

Honestly, I think believing in Icelandic Elves is easier to swallow than a lot of the promises of change that people accepted from career politicians with an interest in perpetuating Washington business as usual.

But that may just be me. Well, not just me. Me and my gnome roommate Erik.

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For those who *aren't* regular NPR listeners (or regular "Wait, Wait" listeners), allow me to point out that the "Not My Job" segment invariably gets the fewest right answers of anything on the show. It's not uncommon for the "celebrity guest" to get zero out of three, and extremely rare to get the two out of three required to "win" for a listener at home. The main reason is not so much that the subject is by definition not the guest's job, as that it's by construction something thoroughly obscure that probably no one else would get either. By comparison, the questions for callers to answer directly, and even those for the regular "panel" (including such luminaries as, occasionally, former PM'er Mo Rocca), are pretty much drawn from the week's news (though sometimes fairly obscure news), so that anyone who's been paying attention "should" get them, and most callers do get at least two out of three.

Perhaps more to the point, the real reason for the segment's existence is probably less to display the guest's ignorance of obscure subjects than to have a chance to interview people that the host always wanted to, from actors to Supreme Court Justices.

But still, the segment *is* called "Not My Job." I guess it just wouldn't be fair to ask, say, someone from the SEC why they missed six separate warnings about Bernie Madoff. Or at least, it wouldn't be NPR, it would be Jon Stewart (;-).

More fluff from the Limp Ris Duo. I guess Obama would steer clear of that show, since pretty much everything is above his pay grade. As president Obama thinks it's his job to point fingers at Bush, or anyone else handy, and blame them. As far as the real work of a real president, Obama's reply: Not my Job.